RSS feed not showing in Chrome

PHP
1

Hi Guys,

I’ve built an RSS feed but it just wont work in Chrome. The BBC RSS feed works fine in Chrome so it’s not the browser. Here is a snippet of the RSS output. Am I missing anything?


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>JobBoardScripts Search Results</title>
<description>RSS Feed for JobBoardScripts Search</description>
<link>http://www.domain.co.uk</link>
<atom:link href="http://www.domain.co.uk/rss/rss.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Accounts Payable Officer ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Job title: Accounts Payable Officer

	Salary range: &pound;22- &pound;26k

	Direct reports: None

	Purpose of the role

	Reporting to the Finance Manager the purpose of this role is to provide a full purchase ledger function within a busy Finance team. The Accounts Payable Officer will also be required to manage the small Corporate sales ledgers.

	Candidate profile

	The succe...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/accounts-payable-officer-3147.html]]></link>
<guid>http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/accounts-payable-officer-3147.html</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Assistant Content Editor ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Job title: Assistant Content Editor

	Salary:&pound;17,000

	Reporting to: Content Editor

	Location: Wallingford

	Purpose of the role

	The purpose of this role is to assist with editorial tasks in Content Management across a variety of subject areas to ensure relevant products and websites are updated regularly and content for further processing is identified as required.

	T...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/assistant-content-editor-3144.html]]></link>
<guid>http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/assistant-content-editor-3144.html</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Data Correction Operator (temp-to-perm)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Data Correction Operator (temp-to-perm)

	Do you have highly accurate visual skills? Can you maintain a high level of focus in a busy environment? If you are this conscientious, meticulous and thorough person we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.

	This full-time position on an initial 2 month contract could convert to a permanent position depending on your performance (accura...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/data-correction-operator-temp-to-perm--3141.html]]></link>
<guid>http://www.domain.co.uk/company/mp-resourcing/data-correction-operator-temp-to-perm--3141.html</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
2

Hi Zaggs,

When you say it doesn’t work in Chrome, are you getting any output at all? Or it’s displaying the feed as plain text rather than xml?

3

Yes it’s just displaying the plain text rather than the XML…

4

Try setting the content type header (note that you have to call the header() function before you output anything from your script):

header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml");
5

Thanks, I thought this might have solved it - but still the same :frowning:

6

Could you share the code you’re using to generate the output, and maybe a link to see it in action (if it’s online)?

7

Hmm, so after further investigation it seems that even though Chrome reports ‘application/rss+xml’ as the content type, you have to set it as ‘text/xml’ in PHP. You learn something new everyday :slight_smile:

8

Thanks, that worked perfectly :slight_smile: