Simplepie RSS script white screen solution

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 2 Nov 2008 in PhP | 0 comments

Well, I was working on my home server with the Simplepie script (http://simplepie.org) to get some RSS feeds on a site.
It worked great untill I moved it to my live Server.
All I got where white screens…. could not figure it out what this problem was.
Than I found this forum


http://simplepie.org/support/viewtopic.php?id=1134
The developers say they don’t have a clue why this is happening. But will try to solve this.
Till then, I found a way around it. (thanxs to “dostovskk”)
The problem is the cURL library installed on the server.
So a way to resolve this is to either update the cURL lib or to use the force_fsockopen to fetch the remote files.
To force the use of fsockopen > open simplepie.inc > look for the following piece of code : “var $force_fsockopen = false;” and change it to “var $force_fsockopen = true;”

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.