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Hi Guys,
I feel like a broken record. I'm setting up a new podcast on a website and the shows/episodes are not displaying in the web browser or in the rss validator.
Here is the webpage: https://livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/index.php It is based off the podcasts/index.php with the '<?php perch_podcasts_shows('s'); ?>'
I know that last time you were talking about the slug. The slug for the show, in the podcast app, show options is lhac https://www.livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/rss.php?s=lhac
Thank you,
That's not a valid function call - if you're using
perch_podcasts_shows()
then the first argument is an options array.If you want to display details of a show, you can use
perch_podcasts_show('slug-of-my-show')
.If you want to get episodes of a show, you can use
perch_podcasts_episodes('slug-of-my-show')
Thanks Drew, I added the slug 'lhac' to the webpage code on the podcast page <?php perch_podcasts_episodes('lhac'); ?> - yes, I would love to display the episodes, as opposed to the shows, as currently their is only one.
This is the same show slug that I added in the podcast app. The page is still not displaying the two episodes that I have added to the podcast app. Maybe it will take a little bit for the website to display the episodes?
https://livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/index.php
Your page is terminating, which indicates that an error is being thrown. Have you checked your error log?
I checked the error log and found this error:
20151007T080326: livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/index.php PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function perch_podcasts_episodes() in [long address here]/livinghopealliance/podcasts/index.php on line 41
When I remove the '<?php perch_podcasts_episodes('lhac'); ?>' I can now see the footer displayed at the bottom of the page.
Does this error help at all?
Have you included the Podcasts app in your
config/apps.php
?There we go - can't believe I missed that simple first step.
Next question on the Podcast, I can see the three episodes listed on the web page: https://livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/
When I click on an episode title/date it takes me to the episodes.php page https://livinghopealliance.org/podcasts/episode.php?s=lhac&ep=3 now this page is not displaying the audio message.
Here is the perch code in the episodes page <?php perch_podcasts_episode(perch_get('lhac'), perch_get('ep')); ?>
My thought is that I am having an error in the RSS Validation where the content in <channel> is not displayed. I assumed that the content for <channel> such as 'description' came from the Podcast App > show options. Yes, there is content in the description.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
I think you want
perch_get('s')
and notperch_get('lhac')
.The template for the main body of the RSS is
rss_channel.html
. It uses the description and other fields as defined in theshow.html
template.Replacing 'lac' with 's' worked perfectly!
I will now go and work on the show.html template file.
Thank you so much for your patience,
We're almost there! Just a quick question on the RSS feed.
Here is the RSS URL for the podcast: https://www.livinghopealliance.org/messages/rss.php?s=lhac
Running the feed through https://feedvalidator.org/ there appears to be the validation errors:
This feed does not validate.
line 6, column 0: Undefined description element: p [help]
<p>Living Hope Alliance Church podcast. Weekly messages from Living Hope All ... line 8, column 4: Undefined channel element: div [help]
line 126, column 4: Missing channel element: link [help]
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.
line 126, column 4: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]
I am unclear on how to clear up these errors.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
What does your template look like?
Here are the files I have used for the RSS feed. - rss_channel.html - rss_items.html - rss.php - show.html
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gk2z1ex2r8zz1mc/AAA67e3KL7naY61XucfBKu6ga?dl=0
Thank you,
I don't think that
rss_items.html
is what's being used. Can you show me the code you're using to output the feed?For reference, here's the example page:
Right, here is the content of the rss.php file:
<?php include('../perch/runtime.php');
?> <rss xmlns:itunes="https://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"> <channel> <?php perch_podcasts_show(perch_get('s'), array('template/podcasts/'=>'rss_channel.html')); perch_podcasts_episodes(perch_get('s'), array('template/podcasts/'=>'rss_items.html')); ?> </channel> </rss>
There's no
template/podcasts/
option - I think you mean that to betemplate
like the example I gave.This:
should be
Gotcha, good that cleared up the RSS feed with one exception.
The exception is that whenever there is a 's or a - character etc. the Feedvalidator gives an error in the <itunes:subtitle> and the <itunes:summary>.
It does however state that this is a valid RSS feed now. Is that an issue I need to be concerned about?
Thank you,
It says it needs to not contain HTML. Those characters are HTML encoded. Set
encode="false"
on the tag to prevent the encoding.