Extension talk:RSS/LQT Archive 1

Incompatibility with MW 1.12
Hi all, I have an incompatibility using this plugin, it produces a SQL DB error... It says that the table mw_cur doesn't exist. OK, it was the fix that I did not applied correctly...--Rmatt 14:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Internationalisation problems
When I try to read a feed on french, UTF-8 encoded, I have a problem. If I add the parameter charset=UTF-8 the text is cutten after the first exotic character (é, à...) and the rest of the text do not appear.

If I remove this parameter theses characters all well processed, but the apostrophs (') are replaced by (?). Any ideas ? I did not install any additional iconv library.

Misformatted text
I'm not sure if it's rss.php or the Magpie parser at fault, but RSS feeds with embedded &lt;pre&gt;&hellip;&lt;/pre&gt; tags are not displayed properly. All the newlines are stripped out and replaced with spaces, which ruins the formatting. &mdash;Psychonaut 14:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Notitle
Hi, great work, however I miss "notitle" option when showing RSS feed. I have pages where I define RSS feed and pages where I show various feeds. Always showing source of RSS feed (name of the site + mediawiki page) is really annoying. It would be great if "notitle" option is inclueded into next ver.

--89.212.65.33 09:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Formatting of feeds
This is a great extension but for some reason I can't seem to get my wordpress feed to work. I'm using a wordpress category feed http://ehealth.oerc.ox.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&cat=3. is this formatting no good for your extension. I'm getting the failure message.

Text Editors
I tried using nano to create the rss.php and the extension just won't work! Using Vi did the trick. --202.52.76.99 02:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

XML
how can i add a feed like this: http://www.asdfasdfasd.com/news/feed.xml? Bennylin 04:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Chinese language Feed Problem
When I used it to read a Chinese Simplified Language Feed (the charset is UTF-8) It doesn't work. What I saw are NOT normal words

Update: This Problem is resoloved. Just add a line to rss.php : define('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');

Proposed Patch (error handling)
sometimes, feeds aren't as clean as they should be. the rss extension was throwing php errors at me, so I added some checks to make sure we have the feed (and date in it) correctly from magpie: