I have a RSS.php file that creates my feed everything validates except
the description tag.

$summary =
htmlentities(strip_tags($line['summary'],ENT_QUOTES),ENT_QUOTES);

$output .= "<item>
<guid>".htmlentities($line['URL'])."</guid>
<title>".htmlentities($line['title'])."</title>
<link>".htmlentities($line['URL'])."</link>
<description>".$summary."</description>
</item>";

If I take out the description then the feed works fine except my
summaries aren't readable.

When I put in the description tag (above) my Yahoo reader shows the
summaries but there are still %23, %2C,%27 and so on.

I have tried several variations. I'm just wondering where I am going
wrong. Can anyone advise?

Thanks,

Jeff

JeffV wrote:

> I have a RSS.php file that creates my feed everything validates except
> the description tag.

What error message do you get?

Could it be a charset problem?

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No errors... However, when I put in the description tag in the
rss.php file my Yahoo reader shows the
description but there are %23, %2C,%27 showing up where the commas,
quotes are.



On Mar 28, 4:12 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> JeffV wrote:
> > I have a RSS.php file that creates my feed everything validates except
> > the description tag.
>
> What error message do you get?
>
> Could it be a charset problem?
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.17.14-mm-desktop-9mdvsmp, up 1 day, 22:32.]
>
> Best... News... Story... Ever!
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/03/23/hypnotist/

JeffV wrote:

> No errors... However, when I put in the description tag in the rss.php
> file my Yahoo reader shows the description but there are %23, %2C,%27
> showing up where the commas, quotes are.

URL?

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http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/0...nition-alpha6/

http://www.godsurfer.com/rss.php



On Mar 30, 10:10 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> JeffV wrote:
> > No errors... However, when I put in the description tag in the rss.php
> > file my Yahoo reader shows the description but there are %23, %2C,%27
> > showing up where the commas, quotes are.
>
> URL?
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.17.14-mm-desktop-9mdvsmp, up 4 days, 4:30.]
>
> Cognition 0.1 Alpha 6
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/0...nition-alpha6/

JeffV wrote:

> http://www.godsurfer.com/rss.php

There's nothing wrong with that RSS, but it doesn't contain any
<description> tags, so I can't really assess if there's a problem with
those.


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Cognition 0.1 Alpha 6
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/0...nition-alpha6/