browser issues

[cardi777]

Hi,

I want to start by saying, great tool! Also, thanks for providing a forum.

I am finding that feed loading works in IE, but not firefox, and not chrome.

Get the latest nascar news!

Here is my code:

var RSSUrl = "http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/rss.xml";
var domain2 = "http://www.ecommerce-ebooks.com/";
xml.load(domain2 + "news.php?url="+RSSUrl);

I'm hoping that the problem is my coding, and not your method for external feed grabbing.

Please help!

Cheers,
Doug

[cardi777]

I found a solution. It seems that the news.php file you provided is not sufficient.

The answer which made everything work was from here:

AWSSOFT | Support

Basically, in your news.php, I deleted everything, and replaced it with this:

<?php

// turn off NOTICE error reporting
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
   $ch = curl_init($_REQUEST[fileName]);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
   echo curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);
}
else {
   readfile($_REQUEST[fileName]);
}

?>

Then in the flash, try this:

xml.load("http://www.yourdomain.com/news2.php?fileName=http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/rss.xml");

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Doug

[Adrian]

That's great. Thank you for sharing.

[cardi777]

hmm ... no .. on much testing, this hasn't solved it. It seems much more random. No idea how to fix this

[cardi777]

I found an article here: Loading data across domains

Basically, you make a PHP file which loads the rss into it. Not just the name of the url, but the actually contents of the rss. Effectually, this makes the php turn into the rss feed.

Say you call your file "news2.php", then place this into it...

<?php

$dataURL = "http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/rss.xml";

//note that this will not follow redirects
readfile($dataURL);

?>

In the flash, put this...

xml.load("http://www.yourwebsite.com/news2.php");

Works for me so far.... last time I thought I had nailed it, things stopped working. I am confident that the flash file code is REALLY SUPA MEGA AWSOME, its just cross domain issues.

Hope that this helps people

Cheers,
Doug

[cardi777]

Okay, i don't know whats going on, but here is what CONSTANTLY happens to me.

I try a new techinique, clear my cache, and it works!

Then the next day I take a look, and bam - not working.

I thought I had nailed it with my last reply, but it stopped working eventually.

I reverted to the same code that came with the package, and IT IS WORKING AGAIN - but for how long. If anyone knows whats going on here, I would love to know. It is acting terribly random and I can't use the tool.

[cardi777]

Okay,

Changing the url so local instead of the full url made it work...

If it continues to work, ill let you know!