Magpie rss_fetch() error

[MikesBarto2002]

This feed used to work on my old server, and now that I have moved it over to a new server, I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fetch_rss() in /homepages/38/d134451434/htdocs/wsc134451438/includes/footer.php on line 47

I made sure to move over all of the Magpie files, and it still isn't working. Here is the page below:

<div id="footer">
    <div id="footercontentleft">
        <div id="newsletter">
            <h2 id="h2_newsletter">Newsletter</h2>
            <?php
                if (isset($_POST['newslettersubmit'])) {
                    // Initialize error array
                    $errors = array();
                    // Gather variables
                    if (!empty($_POST['newsletteremail'])) {
                        $newsletteremail = stripslashes($_POST['newsletteremail']);
                    } else {
                        $errors[] = "You must enter an EMAIL ADDRESS.";
                        $newsletteremail = NULL;
                    }
                    if (empty($errors)) {
                        // Send confirmation email
                        $body = "A request has been sent to add the following email address to your email newsletter list:\n\n";
                        $body .= "$newsletteremail";
                        mail ("info@jameswebdevelopment.com","Alchemy Theatre - Email Newsletter Request",$body,"From: $newsletteremail");
                        echo "Thanks for signing up!";
                    } else {
                        echo '<h3>Error!</h3>';
                        foreach ($errors as $msg) {
                            echo "<p>$msg</p>";
                        }
                    }
                }
            ?>
            <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
                <div><label for="newsletteremail">Email</label><input type="text" name="newsletteremail" /></div>
                <div><input type="submit" name="newslettersubmit" src="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/pics/buttons/newslettersignup.png" /></div>
            </form>
        </div>
        <div id="sponsors">
            <h2 id="h2_sponsors">Sponsors</h2>
            <p>The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan is a resident theatre company at&hellip;</p>
            <p><a href="http://www.theatrerow.org"><img src="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/pics/theatrerow.png" alt="Theatre Row on 42nd Street" /></a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div id="footercontentright">
        <div id="latestblogpost">
            <h2 id="h2_latestblogpost">Latest Blog Post</h2>
            <?php 
                include ('http://www.alchemytheatre.org/magpie/rss_fetch.inc');
                error_reporting(E_ERROR);
                $rss = fetch_rss("http://www.alchemytheatre.org/blog/?feed=rss2");
                if ($rss) {
                    echo '<h3><a href="' . $rss->items[0]['link'] . '">' . $rss->items[0]['title'] . '</a></h3>' . "\n";
                    echo '<p>' . $rss->items[0]['description'] . '</p>' . "\n";
                    echo '<p>Published ' . $rss->items[0]['pubdate'] . '.</p>' . "\n";
                } else {
                    echo '<h3>Error:</h3><p>'.magpie_error().'</p>';
                }
                @ini_restore('error_reporting');
            ?>
        </div>
        <div id="navbarbottom">
            <p>Alchemy Theatre | c/o Theatre Row | 410 W. 42nd Street, Office 4E3 | New York, NY 10036<br />T: (212) 967-0901 | F: (646) 304-5657 | E-mail: <a href="mailto:info@alchemytheatre.org">info@alchemytheatre.org</a></p>
            <p class="nomargin">Copyright &copy; 2009, Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan.  All rights reserved.</p>  
            <p class="nomargin"><a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/buytickets/">Buy Tickets</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/ourseason/">Our Season</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/aboutus/">About Us</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/support/">Support</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/ourcommunity/">Linking to our Community</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/press/">Press</a><br /><a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/contactus/">Contact Us</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/blog/">Blog</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alchemytheatre.org/privacy.php">Privacy</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@jameswebdevelopment.com">Webmaster</a></p>
            <div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

I have triple checked that the path to rss_fetch.inc is right, so I know that isn't the issue.

Any thoughts?

[Mittineague]

You can change your code to this to check it

            <?php 
                error_reporting(E_ALL);
                include ('http://www.alchemytheatre.org/magpie/rss_fetch.inc');
                $rss = fetch_rss("http://www.alchemytheatre.org/blog/?feed=rss2");
                if ($rss) {

but I think what is happening is because you are using an absolute path in the include construct. The "http" signals an external file, even if it isn't, and for security reasons PHP is often compiled to not allow this.

Try using a relative path eg.

include '../magpie/rss_fetch.inc'; 

[MikesBarto2002]

Thanks for the advice. I changed the PHP to:

                error_reporting(E_ERROR);
                include ('/magpie/rss_fetch.inc');
                $rss = fetch_rss("http://www.alchemytheatre.org/blog/?feed=rss2");
                if ($rss) {
                    echo '<h3><a href="' . $rss->items[0]['link'] . '">' . $rss->items[0]['title'] . '</a></h3>' . "\n";
                    echo '<p>' . $rss->items[0]['description'] . '</p>' . "\n";
                    echo '<p>Published ' . $rss->items[0]['pubdate'] . '.</p>' . "\n";
                } else {
                    echo '<h3>Error:</h3><p>'.magpie_error().'</p>';
                }
                @ini_restore('error_reporting'); 

... and I am still getting the same error...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fetch_rss() in /homepages/38/d134451434/htdocs/wsc134451438/includes/footer.php on line 48

Any other advice?

[Mittineague]

I think your path is wrong. If footer.php is in the "includes" folder, for that URL to work the "magpie" folder needs to be in the "includes" folder.
But http://www.alchemytheatre.org/magpie/rss_fetch.inc suggests that it's not in the includes folder, but a sibling, that is, "next" to it under the main root folder. That's why I put "../" in my example, since I think PHP needs to "back out" of the includes folder before it can go "into" the magpie folder.

Did you try

include '../magpie/rss_fetch.inc'; 

[MikesBarto2002]

That did it! Good eye, and thanks for the advice.