RSS feed posts

[judel]

Hey! I thought I'd give this RSS plug in a chance to see if I could get it to work. Seems like I have, but the post looks all screwy! I did choose the option to strip any html, but it doesn't look like it did it! Any suggestions? Would be really neat if I can get this working correctly!

see screenshot for actual RSS feed post from yahoo!


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[judel]

*sigh* I guess it's not that important! I just deactivated it for now!

[DennisTT]

Sorry I haven't had time to look over it.

[DennisTT]

Hi judel

Can you try this modification in inc/plugins/rss2post.php:
Find:

PHP Code:

$message = html_entity_decode($item_data['description']); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$message = unhtmlentities($item_data['description']); 


If it still doesn't work, can you post a link to the feed?

Thanks,

[judel]

OK, that makes it look much better, but now it changes the apostrophes to boxes. For example:

Code:

Jennifer Lopez says shes found a perfect match in her husband, singer Marc Anthony.

And is it only supposed to capture the first line of the article? Any way to get it to pull more of it, or is that in the rss coding?

Here is the link I'm trying to get to work: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/entertainment

edit: oh, and this is weird! I can't even edit to get rid of those boxes!! strange!!

[DennisTT]

Might be a problem with your charset or content type or something. Can you post the link to the post that shows this?

Also, the plugin can only display the information that's provided in the feed. In your feed only the description is shown, so that's all that can be posted.

[judel]

Well, since I don't make my forum public, I could send you a PM of the link if that will work? Don't want to do that unless it's OK though!
And I've deleted all the posts with the boxes, so I would have to wait until the plugin scanned again tomorrow!

Oh and it isn't just that rss feed to get those boxes instead of apostrophes. I tried another rss feed, and all apostrophes were still replaced!

[DennisTT]

Well yeah sure PM me the URL.

[judel]

OK, I just sent the PM...and here is the other rss feed I used and still got the boxes instead of apostrophes: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/...Review.xml

[judel]

Well, I'm still using the plug in but would really like to know why those boxes replace the apostrophes. Have you had a chance to visit the link I sent to you in PM, Dennis?