Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

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Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by jorhett » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:33 am

No newsfeeds are working, not even ones which work fine in 1.5. This may obviously be a local system problem but below is the only log message I have to work with. Is there any way to debug what simplepie is doing?

[Mon Nov 22 01:44:58 2010] [error] [client 99.124.207.89] PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 in /site/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1801, referer: http://www.fastlizardracing.com/index.p ... Itemid=103
[Mon Nov 22 01:51:07 2010] [error] [client 99.124.207.89] PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 in /site/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1801, referer: http://www.fastlizardracing.com/index.p ... Itemid=103
[Mon Nov 22 02:09:56 2010] [error] [client 99.124.207.89] PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 in /site/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1801, referer: http://www.fastlizardracing.com/guides.html
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by mcsmom » Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:19 am

Please explain step by step what you are doing.
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by jorhett » Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:31 am

Login to /administrator on a fresh 1.6 installation
Pull down on Components -> Newsfeeds -> Feeds
Click "Create"
Enter a working feed address that works fine in Joomla 1.5 (in this case http://jorhett.livejournal.com/data/atom)
Enter a name for it.
Click Save
Create a menu item pointing at this feed

Go to main website (not in administrator)
Click menu link
Observe text on screen: "Error loading feed data" and "Error. Feed could not be retrieved."

Look in webserver error log, see messages I quoted above to start this thread: "PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 in /site/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1801"

Three obvious followups:
1. The error message is wrong because the data returned is in UTF-8 form.

2. It's not just livejournal, you can pick any valid feed URL and get the same response

3. Could it be a local system issue: sure, but it works in Joomla 1.5 and in Wordpress and in a half-dozen other things that use simplepie so it's something specific to either Joomla 1.6 or the version of simplepie included here.
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by mcsmom » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:47 am

Are the sample data feeds working ok?
I entered your link and the feed rendered without a problem.
So it seems like a local issue but what?
Can you please paste your basic environment information? (you can get it from the site info page).
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by jorhett » Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:54 pm

mcsmom wrote:Can you please paste your basic environment information? (you can get it from the site info page).
I am assuming you meant the System Information page under the Site pulldown?

PHP Built On: FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.3-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p13 #0: Thu Oct 1 22:14:44 UTC 2009 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Database Version: 5.1.35
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
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WebServer to PHP Interface: cgi-fcgi
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by jorhett » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:57 am

No reply on this problem?
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by jorhett » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:04 am

If anyone else finds this, ensure that the PHP5 iconv extension is installed and enabled. That was it.
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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by toibantang » Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:57 am

jorhett wrote:Login to /administrator on a fresh 1.6 installation
Pull down on Components -> Newsfeeds -> Feeds
Click "Create"
Enter a working feed address that works fine in Joomla 1.5 (in this case http://jorhett.livejournal.com/data/atom)
Enter a name for it.
Click Save
Create a menu item pointing at this feed

Go to main website (not in administrator)
Click menu link
Observe text on screen: "Error loading feed data" and "Error. Feed could not be retrieved."

Look in webserver error log, see messages I quoted above to start this thread: "PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 in /site/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1801"

Three obvious followups:
1. The error message is wrong because the data returned is in UTF-8 form.

2. It's not just livejournal, you can pick any valid feed URL and get the same response

3. Could it be a local system issue: sure, but it works in Joomla 1.5 and in Wordpress and in a half-dozen other things that use simplepie so it's something specific to either Joomla 1.6 or the version of simplepie included here.

I'm having this problem. Would you mind if you tell me the rosolution for it.
Thank so much!

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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by Spitz » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:35 am

Hi Jorhett,
the solution can be applied for this problem too?
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=627&t=621280

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Re: Newsfeeds don't work in 1.6

Post by Spitz » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:27 am

Feed's caching problem still persist.
I saw Jorhett's suggestion for resolution (iconv enabled) but this don't apply for me. The iconv is enabled. Still I have this caching problems. Can anyone tell me if it is a bug that is going to be solved, or if it is just for few of us (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=627&t=621280), how can it be solved?


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