SimplePie behaving differently on local vs. server

[eluser]ericbae[/eluser]
I have a simple code, which uses SimplePie RSS parser.

Code:

// load rss feeds
set_time_limit(0);
$this->load->library('simplepie');
        
// use simple pie to process the feeds
$this->simplepie->set_feed_url('http://news.google.com.au/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&output=rss&q=Bible+study');
$this->simplepie->init();
$this->simplepie->handle_content_type();

print_r($this->simplepie);

The above code works fine on my local machine. However, when I upload it to my server, it gives the following statement in the "print_r" statement.

Code:

[error] => A feed could not be found at http://news.google.com.au/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&output=rss&q=Bible+Study

Any ideas?

[eluser]Eric_WVGG[/eluser]
Is your host running PHP 5.1.3+? The current "1.3dev" release of Simplepie has higher requirements.

[eluser]jasonfx[/eluser]
Ericbae,

Can I ask where you downloaded the simplepie rss library for codeigniter? I can't seem to find it on simplpie's site or their git repository.

Thanks, much appreciated.

[eluser]Eric_WVGG[/eluser]
https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/archives/master

note: there is no "simplepie for codeigniter," there's just simplepie. You can write a simple wrapper library yourself or just include the library and use it directly from your controller.

[eluser]jasonfx[/eluser]
[quote author="Cowboy_X" date="1310425064"]https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/archives/master

note: there is no "simplepie for codeigniter," there's just simplepie. You can write a simple wrapper library yourself or just include the library and use it directly from your controller.[/quote]

Thanks for your response. My apologies, but I'm kinda new to using libraries that are not native to codeigniter.

I downloaded and extracted the files from the repository. Theres a ton of files, which ones should I drop into the libraries folder?

Thanks again. I don't mean to turn your attention away from resolving your issues.

[eluser]Eric_WVGG[/eluser]
No problem, my life is kind of revolving around Simplepie and CodeIgniter at the moment.

Here's a sample wrapper. Assumes you're on Codeigniter 2 "Reactor"

1. Yes, rename the folder to "simplepie" and move the entire thing into your application/libraries folder. You'll want the whole thing there, unchanged, so that you can simply dump in a replacement when a new version gets released.

2. Make a new file called libraries/feed_reader.php. Should read like this:
<code>&lt;?php
include_once('simplepie/SimplePieAutoloader.php');
include_once('simplepie/idn/idna_convert.class.php');
class feed_reader {
function scan( $xmlUrl ){
$feed_reader = new SimplePie();
$feed_reader->set_feed_url($xmlUrl);
$success = $feed_reader->init();
if(!$success) {
$feed_reader->__destruct();
return false;
}
if($success) {
$items = $feed_reader->get_items();
return $items; // or loop over them, or whatever
}
$feed_reader->__destruct();
}
}
</code>

3. From your controller...<code>
$this->load->library('feed_reader');
$items = $this->feed_reader->scan('http://somesite.com/rss.xml');
</code>

You might need to set write permissions for the SimplePie cache dir, or set_cache_location to a mysql database, or whatever.

[eluser]jasonfx[/eluser]
:-) That was more than I expected! Thank you so much! This'll help me get it off the ground.