Everything After -> Not Getting Parsed

**Bradleyscott** · Dec 30, 2008 10:01

I am trying to run a Simplepie script on my site. I am running on a server with php 4.4.7 and Simplepie Compatibility test shows my server will work.

When I use their example code (posted below) it works as a standalone page.

When I try to cut that code up put it into an existing page, it parses everything except whatever falls after the -> (code below).

Is there something I am missing?

Here is the stand alone example page they have

Code:

<?php
 
// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of simplepie.inc.
require_once('php/simplepie.inc');
 
// We'll process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie('http://simplepie.org/blog/feed/');
 
// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn't change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();
 
// Let's begin our XHTML webpage code.  The DOCTYPE is supposed to be the very first thing, so we'll keep it on the same line as the closing-PHP tag.
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
	<title>Sample SimplePie Page</title>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 
	<style type="text/css">
	body {
		font:12px/1.4em Verdana, sans-serif;
		color:#333;
		background-color:#fff;
		width:700px;
		margin:50px auto;
		padding:0;
	}
 
	a {
		color:#326EA1;
		text-decoration:underline;
		padding:0 1px;
	}
 
	a:hover {
		background-color:#333;
		color:#fff;
		text-decoration:none;
	}
 
	div.header {
		border-bottom:1px solid #999;
	}
 
	div.item {
		padding:5px 0;
		border-bottom:1px solid #999;
	}
	</style>
 
</head>
<body>
 <h1>Feed</h1>
	<div class="header">
		<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
		<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
	</div>
 
	<?php
	/*
	Here, we'll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
	*/
	foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
	?>
 
		<div class="item">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
			<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
		</div>
 
	<?php endforeach; ?>
 
</body>
</html>

Here is what I pulled out and placed into the HEAD tags of my page

Code:

<?php

require_once('php/simplepie.inc');

$feed = new SimplePie('http://simplepie.org/blog/feed/');

$feed->handle_content_type();
 
?>

and here is what I used in the BODY

Code:

<h1>Feed</h1>
	<div class="header">
		<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
		<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
	</div>
 
	<?php
	/*
	Here, we'll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
	*/
	foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
	?>
 
		<div class="item">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
			<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
		</div>
 
	<?php endforeach; ?>

To me, everything looks to be fine; however in the body, the following things are showing on the actual web page:

Feed
get_title(); ?>

get_description(); ?>
get_items() as $item): ?>
get_title(); ?>

get_description(); ?>

Posted on get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?>

It should also be noted that Dreamweaver's code view also shows this as a problem (those lines are colored black when the page is saved as both an html page and a php page).

Thanks for your help.

**crmalibu** · Dec 30, 2008 10:07

right click > view html source. all your php code should be there. this means php is not parsing it.

You generally need to name the file with a .php file extension, and request the url through a webserver which has php installed and configured properly.

**AnthonySterling** · Dec 30, 2008 10:09

Are you sure the PHP is parsing the file? Does this file have the PHP extension?

**Bradleyscott** · Dec 30, 2008 10:22

I figured out the problem....

It is a corporate site with a corporate template built for the Lowest Common Denominator. So our offices in the small cities don't need a web team to maintain them. Those that are lucky enough to have a web team run into a restrictive environment where it is hard to work with the template to do anything even mildly advanced.

In this case, I have access to a file where I can add code to the head tags indirectly. Everything I put up there is parsed. In the body, on the other hand, the home page is parsed first, then the updates I add to the site via their admin section is all client side, therefore not parsed.

So I will need to look to Javascript to pull in a simple RSS Feed to the home page...

So the long and short of it... I thank you for your help, everything is done right, except the body stuff will never be parsed and you are correct.

I apologize for wasting your time.

Thanks,

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