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    copied!<p>Currently unable to get my rss feed to validate through <a href="http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://www.mediwales.com/rss-events.php" rel="nofollow">W3C RSS Validator</a>. It seems there's a problem with the time/date. If you click the W3C link it'll show the errors. When I comment out the date it works fine but the date is kinda crucial!!</p> <p>Here's the original script: <pre><code> include "db.php"; header("Expires: 0"); header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); header("cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Content-type: text/xml"); print "&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?&gt;"; ?&gt; &lt;rss version="2.0"&gt; &lt;channel&gt; &lt;title&gt;MediWales Events&lt;/title&gt; &lt;description&gt;The latest Events, updates and announcements from MediWales.&lt;/description&gt; &lt;link&gt;http://www.mediwales.com&lt;/link&gt; &lt;copyright&gt;Copyright 2011 MediWales.&lt;/copyright&gt; &lt;docs&gt;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss&lt;/docs&gt; &lt;language&gt;en-us&lt;/language&gt; &lt;lastBuildDate&gt;&lt;? print date("D, d M Y H:i:s"); ?&gt; 0000&lt;/lastBuildDate&gt; &lt;managingEditor&gt;info@mediwales.com&lt;/managingEditor&gt; &lt;pubDate&gt;&lt;? print date("D, d M Y H:i:s"); ?&gt; 0000&lt;/pubDate&gt; &lt;webMaster&gt;info@mediwales.com&lt;/webMaster&gt; &lt;generator&gt;codeworks rss script (1.0.0)&lt;/generator&gt; &lt;image&gt; &lt;url&gt;http://mediwales.com/login/uploaded/template/logo.png&lt;/url&gt; &lt;title&gt;MediWales Website&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link&gt;http://www.mediwales.com&lt;/link&gt; &lt;description&gt;The latest Events, updates and announcements from MediWales.&lt;/description&gt; &lt;width&gt;144&lt;/width&gt; &lt;height&gt;52&lt;/height&gt; &lt;/image&gt; &lt;? $latestnews = mysql_query("SELECT myevents.*, myevents_dates.datefrom from myevents, myevents_dates WHERE myevents_dates.datefrom &gt;= CURDATE() AND myevents.id = myevents_dates.eventid order by myevents_dates.datefrom"); while ($news = mysql_fetch_assoc($latestnews)) { $datetime = explode(" ",$news[datefrom]); $date = explode("-",$datetime[0]); $time = explode(":",$datetime[1]); $news[description] = strip_tags($news[description]); $news[description] = htmlspecialchars($news[description]); echo "&lt;item&gt;"; echo "&lt;title&gt;".mb_convert_encoding(htmlspecialchars($news[title]),"US-ASCII")."&lt;/title&gt;"; echo "&lt;description&gt;".mb_convert_encoding(substr($news[description],0, 250),"US-ASCII")."&lt;/description&gt;"; echo "&lt;link&gt;http://www.mediwales.com/index.php?id=4&amp;amp;nid=$news[id]&lt;/link&gt;"; echo "&lt;pubDate&gt;".date('D, d M Y H:i:s O', mktime($time[0],$time[1],$time[2],$date[1],$date[2],$date[0]))."&lt;/pubDate&gt;"; echo "&lt;/item&gt;"; } ?&gt; &lt;/channel&gt; &lt;/rss&gt; </code></pre>
 

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