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Perch RSS Feed not recognising posts.

Hi Guys,

Trying to set up an RSS Feed for a Blog, I've followed the docs and installation video but haven't managed to get it to work.

If you visit the page (https://www.activegloucestershire.org/news/funding_feed.php), you'll see that the RSS Feed is being recognised, but no posts are showing.

Here's my funding_feed.php template:

<?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" encoding="UTF-8"?'.'>'; 
?>
<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>

and here's the rss_post.html template:

        <item>
           <title><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></title>
           <link><perch:blog id="domain" /><perch:blog id="postURL" /></link>
           <guid><perch:blog id="domain" /><perch:blog id="postURL" /></guid>
           <description><![CDATA[<perch:blog id="excerpt" encode="false" />]]></description>
           <pubDate><perch:blog id="postDateTime" format="D, d M Y H:i:s O" /></pubDate>
           <media:content type="image/jpg" url="https://activegloucestershire.org<perch:blog id="banner_image" type="image" width="320" height="240" crop="true"/>" height="768" width="630"/>
        </item>

Any ideas on what's going wrong?
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Please post your Diagnostics Report - we need this with any post to the forum and it will speed up getting an answer if you include it.
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

5 years ago

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for your reply.

Here's the report.

PERCH INFORMATION

Perch: 2.8.31
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.31), assets (2.8.31), categories (2.8.31), perch_shop_paypal (1.2.3), perch_forms (1.8.3), perch_blog (5.0), perch_comments (1.2), perch_members (1.5), perch_twitter (3.5.1)
DB driver: PDO
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HOSTING SETTINGS

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Simon Clay

Simon Clay 127 points

5 years ago

Hi Harry, if you view the page source, the posts are showing. I think rss might be having a problem with displaying the <media:content parts. Removing them seems to make it function more as expected. It might be the formatting/syntax of those.
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

There is an RSS Feed Validator here which shows an error: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activegloucestershire.org%2Fnews%2Ffunding_feed.php
Harry Ray

Harry Ray 0 points

5 years ago

Thanks for the help guys,

I was using this template to feed into Campaign Monitor, and so needed the image to feed in.

As a resolution, I've separated this feed and the Campaign Monitor feed into different templates, and I'm now no longer using the images in my RSS feed.

Thanks! Harry