Bug #1477

XML_RSS ignores guid tag for links

Details

Submitted	2004-05-23 17:57 UTC
From	joe at joestump dot net
Status	No Feedback
Package	XML_RSS
PHP Version	Irrelevant
OS	All
Roadmaps	(Not assigned)

Comments

[2004-05-23 17:57 UTC] joe at joestump dot net

Description:
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Here is an example item that fails to parse correctly
(despite it being a valid feed according to
feedvalidator.org)

<item>
<title>Cops in the subway</title>
<description>As I walked to the subway through the
crowds in Grand Central Terminal last night, a police
officer yelled out to a young man accompanied by his
mother, "hey, you gotta take that cap off in here!
" The youngster, startled, tugged on the bill of
his Red Sox hat, looked at the now-grinning cop, and
smiled broadly, realizing he'd been had. "
That's worth a summons around here, ya know,"
the...</description>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kottke.org/04/05/
cops-in-the-subway</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2004 10:38:16 -0500</pubDate>
</item>

Reproduce code:
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Trying to parse this results in a blank URL.

Expected result:
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guid should be parsed into 'link' if link is empty

[2004-11-22 06:47 UTC] alanmitchell at yahoo dot com

I am having a similar problem as Joe. The array just doesn't seem to contain a GUID, even though there is a GUID in the feed.

Here is an example feed:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Here is sample code:

//begin code
require 'XML/RSS.php';

$feed = "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories";
$rss =& new XML_RSS($feed);
$rss->parse();

foreach ($rss->getItems() as $item)
{
print_r($item);
}

//[end code]

For the first item in the array I get:

Array ( [title] => Bush Vows to Work for 9/11 Bill's Passage (AP) [link] => http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_go_co/congress [pubdate] => Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:37:29 GMT [description] => AP - Unwilling to concede defeat, congressional leaders expressed hope Sunday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked passage of an overhaul of the nation's intelligence agencies. President Bush pledged to work with them for passage. )

The GUID is missing from all other items, too. Where is it? Am I missing something?

This problem occurs on other feeds that are valid RSS according to the validator. I have not found a feed for which the function will return a GUID.