Title: PHP and RSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# PHP and RSS

 *  [aughavey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aughavey/)
 * (@aughavey)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/)
 * I had been trying for a while to get rss feeds to show on my word press website
   and also an amazon my wishlist. I eventually remembered that rss feeds on a phpnuke
   site with the same host had stopped working a while back. Similarly the rss feed
   for my site is not working and the dashboard in wordpress 1.5 just shows a blank
   page (compared to another wp1.5 site i have where the rss and dashboard are working)
   Apprently my webhost (who are very good btw so i really do not want to move unless
   i have to) reported:
 * “Unfortunately at this moment in time the PHP configuration will remain unchanged
   unless the variables involved become more secure, you should find php does have
   ways to recode certain scripts, I recommend if you look at the variables you 
   use and look them up on [http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php](http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php)
   they should list what other variables you can use. “
 * Is there anyway around this?

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164297)
 * Ummm, not sure what PHP has to do with it. PHP is just the ‘generation mechanism’,
   otherwise the page eventually is served as XML/HTML.
 * Now, there’s a difference between PUBLISHING a feed and GRABBING one — obviously.
   😉
 * If your RSS retrieval isn’t working, not sure what ‘lock down’ they might have
   done on your PHP install. You’d have to ask them what they changed.
 * d
 *  [raybdbomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raybdbomb/)
 * (@raybdbomb)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164300)
 * It sounds like your problem is with RSS retrieval. It could be that fopen is 
   disabled… if that’s the case, I’d try [http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/&#8230](http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/&#8230);
   they claim to not use fopen. It’s just one file that you need to include before
   you can retrieve a syndication.
 * You can see it “in action” on my page [http://raybdbomb.com/](http://raybdbomb.com/)
   on the bottom left
 *  [kellan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellan/)
 * (@kellan)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164410)
 * The WordPress dashboard uses Magpie, so if that isn’t working then it is unlikely
   that a separate Magpie install would work.
 * aughavey, I’d say you’ve got a lousy ISP, even if they’ve decided to lock down
   PHP for legitimate reasons, what an incredibly unhelpful response. Jump ship,
   there are a lots of hosts in the world.
 *  Thread Starter [aughavey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aughavey/)
 * (@aughavey)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164498)
 * I might have to butI have used their company for a long time and I receive my
   broadband adsl from them also. Their hosting is good and I have unlimited webspace(
   within reason i would think).
 * It also seems like “pinging” does not work. Signed up to Technorati and put up
   their link on this website and also another wordpress site. Nothing happens. 
   The other word press site works fine and pings pingomatic and technorati (allowing
   me to claim my blog on technorati) but not so on this site.
 *  [aughavey2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aughavey2/)
 * (@aughavey2)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164798)
 * I am at work at the moment but have found the following:-
 * Following a security upgrade, a change has been made to our PHP configuration
   to switch register_globals OFF. This basically means that statements such as:
 * echo $my_variable_name;
 * will no longer function correctly. There is a simple resolution to this problem
   in the form of some code that should be inserted into the top of your page. Here
   are some examples:
 * If the variable you are trying to access is passed via the URL string:
 * $my_variable_name=$_GET[“my_variable_name”];
 * If the variable you are trying to access is passed via a form post operation:
 * $my_variable_name=$_POST[“my_variable_name”];
 * If the variable you are trying to access is a server environment variable:
 * $my_variable_name=$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”];
 * —–
 * Would this be causing the problems with the dashboard and rss?
    If so can anybody
   suggest a solution apart from drastically changing ISP and moving websites and
   databases?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-rss/#post-164798)
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