I can't include the latests posts into any page!

[matrlx]

Before I went and did the "harder" part I simply included the required code for a RSS feed to be printed at my page, as in the last 10 posts made to my forum.

I did so at this page: http://snesorama.us/new_posts.php

 <?php

// ######################################################
// ## configuration
// ##
// ## $rss_file= 'http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=rss';
// ## Adjust this variable to point to your RSS feed
 
$rss_file = 'http://snesorama.us/board/external.php?type=rss';
    
// ## configuration end
// ######################################################
// ## Do not touch code below!
    
    
$is_item = false;
$tag = '';
$title = '';
$description = '';
$link = '';
    
function character_data($parser, $data)
{
    global $is_item, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
    if ($is_item)
    {
        switch ($tag)
        {
            case "TITLE":
            $title .= $data;
            break;
            case "DESCRIPTION":
            $description .= $data;
    
            break;
            case "LINK":
            $link .= $data;
            break;
        }
    }
}
    
function begin_element($parser, $name)
{
    global $is_item, $tag;
    if ($is_item)
    {
        $tag = $name;
    }
    else if ($name == "ITEM")
    {
        $is_item = true;
    }
}
    
function end_element($parser, $name)
{
    global $is_item, $title, $description, $link, $rss_output;
    if ($name == "ITEM")
    {
$rss_output .= "<dt><strong><a href='" . trim($link) . "'>" . htmlspecialchars(trim($title)) . "</a></strong></dt><dd>" . htmlspecialchars(trim($description)) . "</dd>";
        $title = "";
        $description = "";
        $link = "";
        $is_item = false;
    }
}
    
    
$parser = xml_parser_create();
    
xml_set_element_handler($parser, "begin_element", "end_element");
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, "character_data");
$fp = fopen($rss_file,"r");
    
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
{
    xml_parse($parser, $data, feof($fp));        
}
    
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($parser);

echo $rss_output;

?>

However, as you can see, the page is completely empty, thus something is wrong, and it aint the path, as it doesn't give any 404 error either.

I sent this to technical staff aswell, but I just got a "I'm sorry, there's nothing more I can do for you".

Like I said, I made it the simple way, just to test it. I just pasted the needed code into a blank .php file, added the <? php> around the code, and added the echo statement at the bottom of it.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I just noticed this may have been posted at the wrong subforum, please move if needed.

Regards
//matrlx

[Steve Machol]

This is a custom coding issue. Moved to PHP coding forum.