[SOLVED] ALMOST WORKING...my rss IF die problem...

[shane85]

sorry guys last time im gonna be posting this I hope....so as ive said previously, im creating an rss file that software is pointing to read....I want to do an IF statement that if $row->ticker is empty, die and do not load the rss page...where as if there is txt, load the page...right now I have it so that if there is text, the page loads...however if there is no txt, I get a "feed code error" if I take out the rss in the coding and leave it blank, then the if statement works and says "Ticker is empty or not set" and dies....why am I getting feed code error when the ticker is empty and its not exiting??? the code is as follows

 

// make a connection to mysql here
$conn = mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ("I cannot connect to the database because: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname) or die ("I cannot select the database '$dbname' because: " . mysql_error());

$result = mysql_query("SELECT location_id, ticker FROM host_locations WHERE location_id='2' AND ticker IS NOT NULL")or die(mysql_error()); 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { // begin while statement

if (empty($row->ticker)){
die("Ticker is empty or not set"); //Displays an error and kill page.
} else { // begin to display the rss for the if statement

         //echo "$row->ticker"; // show the $row->ticker to make sure its working

header('Content-type: application/xml');

echo "<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\">\n";
echo "<channel>\n";

echo "<title>RSS Feed</title>\n";

//while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {

         echo "<item>\n";
         echo "<title>$row->ticker</title>\n";
         echo "</item>\n";
//}

echo "</channel>\n";

echo "</rss>\n";



} // end the if statement for ticker
} // end WHILE statement

?>

[shane85]

where it says feed code error there is a button I can push for more info...I did and it says

 

Invalid at the top level of the document.

Line: 1 Character: 1

 

Ticker is empty or not set

 

[shane85]

bump

[daveoffy]

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Will post answer here once solved.