PHP link in my rss feed help

[brent123456]

I am having some trouble with my script I am direct linking from my feed.

$output .= "<link>http://localhost/mrlumber/site_pages/index.php?do=viewtheproduct&pid=$row[product_id]</link>\n";
    $output .= "<guid isPermaLink=\"false\">" . $row['product_id'] . "</guid>";

 

It is breaking on the ampersand and will not print out the feed. If I just use the root url it works fine. Anyone know a way I can fix this?

Thanks,

Brent

[brent123456]

Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks

[cmgmyr]

try:

$output .= "<link>http://localhost/mrlumber/site_pages/index.php?do=viewtheproduct&pid=".$row[product_id]."</link>\n";
$output .= "<guid isPermaLink=\"false\">" . $row['product_id'] . "</guid>";

[brent123456]

Thanks cmgmyr, Worked like a charm 

[SharkBait]

The other thing you might want to look at is the <![CDATA[ ]]>  for XML (or rss feeds) that will ignore special characters and display them as is.

 

It took me forever to figure it out but various characters can break the validation of XML and using the above worked for me.

 

Example:

<?php

$feed = "<item>\n
    <title>{$blog['title']}</title>\n
    <description><![CDATA[{$description}]]?</description>\n
    <link>http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/{$url}</link>\n
    <pubDate>{$pubDate}</pubDate>\n
    <guid>http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/{$url}</guid>\n
    </item>\n\n";

?>

 

Now because $description is my blog's content it has various special characters that would invalidate or break the XML. Hope this helps a bit too.