[RESOLVED] I've Parsed & Parsed..Someone PLEASE Help Me..

[ChuckB]

Hello.

I've read all of the troubleshooting articles suggested at the top of this forum and troubleshooted my tail off.

Can someone PLEASE help me find out why this isn't working.

Please click on this link: http://www.sociallyaffluent.com/back_door2.php

In the section highlighted in green, I'm making a call to an XML file and pulling information.

The code to do this has been parsed over and over again and there aren't any errors in the code...yet I'm getting a "Port: 80 Internal Server Error"..

Something is occurring with simplexml_load_file() and I can't figure what it is.

If you want to look at the code, here it is:

<?php

function load_now(){

require ("dimensions.php");

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.volumestat.com/feed/");

   if (isset($xml))
   {
        
       $count=0;
   
       foreach ($xml -> channel -> item as $item){
   
        $title = trim($item -> title);
    
        if (isset($title)){
    
            if ((preg_match("/(New)(\s?)(ATL)(\s?)(Music)/i", $title)) && ($count < 5))
            {
    
                $item_title = substr($title, 0, strpos($title, '/[^A-Za-z0-9]/') - 1);
        
                $item_artist = substr($title, strpos($title, '/[^A-Za-z0-9]/') + 1);
        
        
                if (strlen($item_artist) > 18)
                {
        
                    $item_artist = substr($item_artist, 0, 18);
            
                }
        
                $item_link = $item->link;
        
                  $item_description = $item -> description;
        
                if (strlen($item_description) > 54)
                {
        
                    $item_description = substr($item_description, 0, 54);
        
                }
        
        
                foreach ($item -> enclosure as $img_tag){
        
                      $all_attributes = $img_tag -> attributes();
            
                       foreach ($all_attributes as $a -> $b){
            
                        if ($a == "url")
                        {
                            $img_count=0;
        
                            if ((preg_match("/\.jpg/i", $b)) && ($img_count < 1))
                            {
        
                                $image_location=$b;
                                $img_count++;
                            }
        
                        }
                    }
                }
        
        
                $target_array=$dimensions[$count];
        
                for ($i=0, $num_pos = count($target_array); $i < $num_pos; $i++){
        
                    if ($i==0)
                    {
            
                        $int_width = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $target_array[$i][2]);
                        $int_height = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $target_array[$i][3]);
                
                              echo '<div style="position:relative; left:'.$target_array[$i][0].' top:'.$target_array[$i][1].' width:'.$target_array[$i][2].' height:'.$target_array[$i][3].'">';
            
                        echo '<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none; cursor:pointer;" onclick="viewMedia(\''.$item_link.'\');"><img src="'.$image_location.'" width="'.$int_width.'" height="'.$int_height.'" /></a>';
                
                        echo '</div>';
                
                    }
            
                    if ($i==1)
                    {
            
                        echo '<div style="position:relative; left:'.$target_array[$i][0].' top:'.$target_array[$i][1].' width:'.$target_array[$i][2].' height:'.$target_array[$i][3].' color:#ec9b0d;">';
                
                        echo '<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none; cursor:pointer; color:white;" onclick="viewMedia(\''.$item_link.'\');">'.$item_title.'</a>';
                
                        echo '</div>';
                
                    }
            
                    if ($i==2)
                    {
            
                        echo '<div style="position:relative; left:'.$target_array[$i][0].' top:'.$target_array[$i][1].' width:'.$target_array[$i][2].' height:'.$target_array[$i][3].' color:white;">';
                
                        echo '<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none; cursor:pointer; color:white;" onclick="viewMedia(\''.$item_link.'\');">'.$item_artist.'</a>';
                
                        echo '</div>';
                
                    }
            
                    if ($i==3)
                    {
            
                        echo '<div style="position:relative; left:'.$target_array[$i][0].' top:'.$target_array[$i][1].' width:'.$target_array[$i][2].' height:'.$target_array[$i][3].' color:white; font-size:9px;">'.$item_description.'</div>';
                
                    }
            
                } //Close numerical for loop
        
                $count++;
        
            } // Close secondary "if" statement
        
        } // Close secondary isset check
    
        else
        { echo 'The title variable was not set'; }
    
          }  //Close your main "for" loop
    
    } // Close primary isset check
    
    else
    { echo 'The file did not load correctly'; }
 

} // Close function

?>

[astupidname]

While I have not gone through and thoroughly analyzed your code, I did check the feed url http://www.volumestat.com/feed/ and if you view source on it (in Firefox, IE won't even open the feed) you will see at the end of it:

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function  get_the_post_thumbnail() in <b>/home/dvason/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mrss-with-thumbnail.php</b> on line <b>53</b><br />

So the lack of correctly formed xml in the feed is likely a major problem...

[astupidname]

So, actually you may want to change this:

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.volumestat.com/feed/");

just slightly by suppressing error messages with the '@' symbol, change to this:

$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://www.volumestat.com/feed/");

[astupidname]

Oh, and don't check for isset($xml), check for !($xml === false)

[ChuckB]

While I have not gone through and thoroughly analyzed your code, I did check the feed url http://www.volumestat.com/feed/ and if you view source on it (in Firefox, IE won't even open the feed) you will see at the end of it:

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function  get_the_post_thumbnail() in <b>/home/dvason/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mrss-with-thumbnail.php</b> on line <b>53</b><br />

So the lack of correctly formed xml in the feed is likely a major problem...

Okay...thanks for that. I found what was causing that and I deleted that file. Now, I'm just getting one error:

Cannot access empty property in /home/content/s/o/c/socialowner/html/load_volume.php on line 51

Apparently may be an error in the actual code above...in this area

                foreach ($item -> enclosure as $img_tag){
        
                      $all_attributes = $img_tag -> attributes();
            
                        foreach ($all_attributes as $a => $b){
            
                        if ($a == "url")
                        {
                            $img_count=0;
        
                            if ((preg_match("/\.jpg/i", $b)) && ($img_count < 1))
                            {
        
                                $image_location=$b;
                                $img_count++;
                            }
        
                        }
                    }
                } 

..can you see something that I'm not calling right here?

[ChuckB]

While I have not gone through and thoroughly analyzed your code, I did check the feed url http://www.volumestat.com/feed/ and if you view source on it (in Firefox, IE won't even open the feed) you will see at the end of it:

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function  get_the_post_thumbnail() in <b>/home/dvason/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mrss-with-thumbnail.php</b> on line <b>53</b><br />

So the lack of correctly formed xml in the feed is likely a major problem...

Okay...thanks for that. I found what was causing that and I deleted that file. Now, I'm just getting one error:

Cannot access empty property in /home/content/s/o/c/socialowner/html/load_volume.php on line 51

Apparently may be an error in the actual code above...in this area

                foreach ($item -> enclosure as $img_tag){
        
                      $all_attributes = $img_tag -> attributes();
            
                        foreach ($all_attributes as $a => $b){     //line 51   
            
                        if ($a == "url")
                        {
                            $img_count=0;
        
                            if ((preg_match("/\.jpg/i", $b)) && ($img_count < 1))
                            {
        
                                $image_location=$b;
                                $img_count++;
                            }
        
                        }
                    }
                } 

..can you see something that I'm not calling right here?

[ChuckB]

Oh, and don't check for isset($xml), check for !($xml === false)

SOLVED!! Finally!....I mean...its not complete but if you look at the link I have the image and the text..

the rest I can figure myself...formatting issues...

Thanks for you assistance...if it wasn't for the suggestion about the "fatal error", I would spent days on this. Thanks man...