guid element breaks my rss php code

[romeoyankee]

hey guys.. great site by the way. 

 

First of all I am a relative php newb but am able to read and search and learn on my own.  In saying that I have read and searched everything I think I can so I will ask here...

 

I am using a script called magpierss which is supposed to parse rss files and then using my code I can combine multiple rss feeds and then create a new rss feed from that..

 

I seem to be having a problem with my code though...  Occasionaly there is a link in an rss feed that seems to break the php code i have written somehow.

 

Best way I can explain it is this..  if you go to the site.. http://www.cyow.ca/magpie/indextest2.php you will see that it might be working or not.. If its not run it through a feed validator

 

I am combining about 9 rss feeds into 1. Each individual rss feed shows up fine and will validate correctly on its own. 

 

Once I combine the feeds and create my new feed the new rss feed seems to break.  I mean that when you go to the link http://www.cyow.ca/magpie/indextest2.php  you only see the first few stories being displayed , if that, up until the feed gets broken.  I have set it so there should be 30 stories.  If you were to view the source though everything looks fine.. 

 

It wont validate because I think it has something to do with a guid element.. I dont really know what that is though.

 

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyow.ca%2Fmagpie%2Findextest2.php

 

here is the script I am using to call all this info

 

<?php 
require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
$urls = array();
array_push($urls,"http://www.aviation.ca/component/option,com_rss/feed,

RSS2.0/no_html,1/");
array_push($urls,"http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/index.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/TP-TodayInTheSky/");
array_push($urls,"http://www.achannel.ca/ottawa/news.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033632/device/rss/rss.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://planenews.com/rss2.php");
array_push($urls,"http://rss.cbc.ca/ottawanews.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://z.about.com/6/g/airtravel/b/index.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/freeheadlines/rdf/allNewsRss.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://aviation-safety.net/rss/rss-asnnews.xml");
array_push($urls,"http://rss.canada.com/get/?F240");

$feedlimit=30;
$webmasteremail="[email protected]";
$rssdescription="Cyow.ca News Feed";
$rsstitle="Cyow.ca News Feed";
$sitelink="http://www.cyow.ca";
$managingEditor="[email protected]";



$feedlimit=$feedlimit+1;
$myrssfeeds=array();
foreach($urls as $urllink)
{
$rss1=fetch_rss($urllink);

if(count($rss1->items)>$feedlimit)
{
	$tofetch=$feedlimit;
}
else
{
	$tofetch=count($rss1->items);
}
$counter=0;
foreach ($rss1->items as $item) 
{
	if($counter<$tofetch)
	{
		array_push($myrssfeeds,$item);
	}
	$counter++;
}
}


for($k=0;$k<count($myrssfeeds);$k++)
for($j=$k;$j<count($myrssfeeds);$j++)
{


if(strtotime($myrssfeeds[$k][pubdate])<strtotime($myrssfeeds[$j][pubdat

e]))
{
	$swapper=$myrssfeeds[$j];
	$myrssfeeds[$j]=$myrssfeeds[$k];
	$myrssfeeds[$k]=$swapper;
}
}

echo <<<END
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
END;
?>
<?php
echo "	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>";
echo"	<title>".$rsstitle."</title>";
echo"	<link>".$sitelink."</link>";
echo"	<description>".$rssdescription."</description>";
echo"	<managingEditor>".$managingEditor."</managingEditor>";
echo"	<webMaster>".$webmasteremail."</webMaster>";
$builddate=gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time()) . ' GMT';

print("<lastBuildDate>".$builddate."</lastBuildDate>\n");

for($i=0;$i<$feedlimit;$i++)
{
if($myrssfeeds[$i][pubdate]!="")
{
	print("<item>");
	print("<title>".$myrssfeeds[$i][title]."</title>");


print("<pubDate>".$myrssfeeds[$i][pubdate]."</pubDate>");
	print("<link>".$myrssfeeds[$i][link]."</link>");
	$description=$myrssfeeds[$i][description];
	$description=preg_replace('/<img[^>]*>/i', '', 

$description);
	$description=str_replace("&"," & ", $description);
	$description=str_replace("<","<", $description);
	$description=str_replace('>','>', $description);


print("<description>\n".$description."\n</description>");
	print("</item>");
}
}
echo <<<END
</channel>
</rss>
END;
?> 

 

 

What can I do to fix the guid element error??