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Styling a Perch RSS Feed

Hi guys,

I'm trying to style an RSS feed on a website - it's not working, it's just rendering the style tags and code.

It's also not showing each individual post in the Chrome RSS Feeder app.

If I remove the header('Content-Type: application/rss+xml'); line, then it styles the page as expected, but then it doesn't even recognise it as a feed, but it does style the page.

Thanks, Harry
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

You'll need to use an XML stylesheet - is that what you're doing?
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

5 years ago

Hi Drew,

I'm using a .xsl file - is that correct? see below for my rss.php code:

<?php include('../cms/runtime.php'); ?>
<?php 
    $domain = 'https://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
    PerchSystem::set_var('domain', $domain);

    header('Content-Type: application/rss+xml');

    echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="../css/feed.xsl" ?>'; 
?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <channel>
        <title>Active Gloucestershire Funding News</title>
        <link><?php echo PerchUtil::html($domain); ?>/news/</link>
        <description>Learn more about funding available for sport and physical activity in Gloucestershire. </description>
        <atom:link href="<?php echo PerchUtil::html($domain); ?>/news/funding_feed.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        <?php
            perch_blog_custom(array(
                'template'   => 'rss_post.html',
                'tag'        => 'funding',
                'sort'       => 'postDateTime',
                'sort-order' => 'DESC'
                ));
        ?>
    </channel>
</rss>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

I think that looks about right, yes.
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

5 years ago

It's not styling the feed though, unfortunately, so it's not quite right.

You can view the page here: https://activegloucestershire.org/news/funding_feed.php
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Ok, but I don't think that's anything to do with the Perch side of things.
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

5 years ago

Do you have any tips as far as styling the feed goes?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

No my specialist subject, I'm afraid.