Title: rss.php errors with plugins?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# rss.php errors with plugins?

 *  [staze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staze/)
 * (@staze)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssphp-errors-with-plugins/)
 * All,
 * Since upgrading to php 5.3, been seeing issues with various plugins, but mainly
   netflix-x2, where it throws the following error in my web error logs:
 *     ```
       [Mon Jan 11 20:30:50 2010] [error] [client 10.0.2.1] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Library/WebServer/Documents/website/wp-content/plugins/netflix-x2/netflix.php on line 59
       [Mon Jan 11 20:33:56 2010] [error] [client 10.0.2.1] PHP Warning:  strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /Library/WebServer/Documents/website/wp-includes/rss.php on line 577
       ```
   
 * Looking around online, it looks like this is because using fetch_feed is deprecated.
   Has anyone else seen this? Anyone have a patch for netflix-x2?
 * As a note, google-analytics-for-wordpress, and robots-meta both seem to link 
   to rss.php as well.
 * I’d have to guess something changed with PHP 5.3 that rss.php doesn’t like, but
   the only major difference I’ve found by googling was that preg_quote now escapes
   dashes… *shrugs*
 * Thanks!

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 *  [sogroovynow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sogroovynow/)
 * (@sogroovynow)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssphp-errors-with-plugins/#post-1341201)
 * I uploaded this plugin but when I attempted to activate it, it said “plugin could
   not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
 *  Thread Starter [staze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staze/)
 * (@staze)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssphp-errors-with-plugins/#post-1341242)
 * Fixed my errors in netflix-x2 with this diff (of netflix-x2.php:
 *     ```
       58,59c58,59
       < 		$rss = fetch_rss($url);
       < 		foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
       ---
       > 		$rss = fetch_feed($url);
       > 		foreach ($rss->get_items() as $item) {
       65c65
       < 			$raw_title = $item['title'];
       ---
       > 			$raw_title = $item->get_title();
       68,69c68,69
       < 			$link = $item['link'];
       < 			$description = $item['description'];
       ---
       > 			$link = $item->get_link();
       > 			$description = $item->get_description();
       129c129
       < 	$rss = fetch_rss($url);
       ---
       > 	$rss = fetch_feed($url);
       ```
   
 * < means remove, > means add. Numbers are line number.
 * Not sure what would cause your fatal error.
 *  [vanberge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanberge/)
 * (@vanberge)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssphp-errors-with-plugins/#post-1341254)
 * Hi Guys,
 * I’m the author of Netflix-X2 – just wanted to let you know that I may have found/
   resolved the issue here.
 * The rss-functions.php file which I was calling via include and provides the core
   functionality has depreiciated.
 * I’ve updated the plugin to a new version 1.2.1 which calls the new version of
   this file, rss.php.
 * Hopefully this works for you all – thanks very much for using the plugin and 
   I hope it continues to work well for everyone.
 * I’m using WordPress 2.9.2, and plugin works great. So I’ll be happy to help anyone
   out who is having issues. Feel free to email me: vanberge/at/gmail.com

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [vanberge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanberge/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssphp-errors-with-plugins/#post-1341254)
 * Status: not resolved

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