Features / Usability

Posted by cyber7 20 Mar 2009 13:37 GMT-0000 posts: 5

more on this:

The RSS feed I want is:

[http://www.biblesociety.org/index.php?id=3&type=100&tx_ttnewscat=1&cHash=362b26547b]

Can anybody help?

Posted by Darren 23 Mar 2009 17:39 GMT-0000 posts: 289

Try adding this link as the RSS feed instead:
http://www.biblesociety.org/index.php?id=3&type=100&tx_ttnews%5Bcat%5D=1&cHash=362b26547b

I think the problem might be certain characters in the URL that Tiki doesn't like.

Posted by cyber7 24 Mar 2009 06:55 GMT-0000 posts: 5

WOW!
Thank you Darkbee!

How did you get onto the % code? Is there a web-page where I can find these codes?

Again, thank you very much. It is most appreciated.
Aubrey Kloppers
(From a Sunny South Africa - Cape Town)

Posted by Darren 24 Mar 2009 19:07 GMT-0000 posts: 289

Well, first of all, I've had some trouble with RSS feeds myself in the past and the problem typically lies with the URL not being in a "friendly" format. I noticed the square brackets in your URL and suspected that was the problem, so I simply replaced them with % codes. Poof, that did the trick.

The % codes are URL encoding strings, which you can manually replace certain "illegal" characters found within a URL with the percent codes yourself. A common percent code is %20 which represents a space. Note that most browsers will quite happily let you put in "illegal" characters but sometimes they will not be handled gracefully.

An easier method is to add the RSS feed to your favorite reader such as Google Reader and then view the URL that the reader uses. (Usually it will convert the URL for you.)

Happy to help!
Darren AKA Darkbee
(From the nowhere near as sunny (or warm) northern United States.)