Hi, Great Rss reader. I need to validate the feed url before its used. If its not a legit feed php errors are printed on screen. Id like to avoid this. How can i validate the feed url? thanks for any help you can give

Hello Put a @ sign before the PHP function to avoid a error message. This will be added to the next version.

thank you for your response. I have done what you suggested and no more error message. But now if the feed is not a genuine feed the user gets a blank white screen where the error messages were. Is there anyway to validate the feed automatically and if its not legit then dont execute the function. I have it set up so users can add there own feeds and im sure people are bound to put in a bad feed at some point. I would rather it tell them that the feed is bad then show errors or a white screen. Basically how can i check if the feed is valid. Is it even possible? could i just wrap the function with something like if(function has fatal error){tell user their feed sucks;}else{execute function;} Thanks for any help you can offer me :D

The feed is retrieved with this function, in RSS_Retrieve:

$doc->load($url);

It returns false if the feed is not loaded. So, add a test:

if($doc->load($url) == false) return false;

At the end of the function, add:

return true;

And in the main function, RSS_Display:

if(!RSS_Retrieve($url)) return false;