PHP Parser of RSS Feed

[DavidB]

Hi, everybody.

After many years of having an RSS feed successfully displayed on a website, it recently stopped working.

It looks like the company that was supplying the feed changed the URL.

Previously, the feed address was:
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/sciencedaily/space_time/space_exploration?format=xml

The new feed, from their website, is:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time/space_exploration.xml

The code snippet for the RSS parser, written in PHP, follows:

$file = "https://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time/space_exploration.xml";
. . .

if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die("could not open XML input");
}
​

The die action always happens, indicating that the XML file could not be opened.

Any idea what the problem is?

Is it the XML, or the PHP code?

[coothead]

Hi there DavidB,
I get this warning for your code...

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

If I put the actual link in the address bar then Firefox downloads
rather than displays the file.

coothead

[coothead]

Hi there DavidB,

as a matter of interest Google Chrome displays the xml code
and Vivaldi actually renders the page

.

coothead

[DavidB]

Do you know how to fix the problem? Previously, the PHP parser took in the feed, displayed the top twenty headlines, with hot-links, so people could go to the story that interested them. Now, apparently, it can't even open the file. What happened? And how do I get it to work properly again?

[coothead]

Hi there DavdB,

both Firefox and Google Chrome have removed built-in support
for web feeds, Firefox in 2018 and Google Chrome in 2021..

All I can suggest is that you do a search for feed readers..

coothead

[sofietveit]

Thank you for creating this thread. I was searching for a similar topic for a while. Thanks again.