RSS Doesn't Validate - No idea why?

Here's the validator response - the second error on line 4:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfhomeconnect.com%2Frss%2Frss.xml


Thanks a lot.


Here's the php XML generation code:

$strBody="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"US-ASCII\"?> 
						<rss version=\"2.0\">
						<channel>
						  <title>Golf Communities & Golf Homes - GolfHomeConnect</title>
         				<description>Discover golf course communities & golf homes at GolfHomeConnect</description>
						  <link>http://www.golfhomeconnect.com/</link> 
						  <language>en-us</language> 
						  <copyright> Copyright 2005 by HomeConnect, LLC.</copyright>";

PHP:

 

I've had in the past I had problems with non-letter charactors.

example: & ? ^

hth,

tom

 

& should be &

 

Thanks, I figured out how to convert characters with htmlspecialchars () after some investigation.

Is there an easy way to convert the date to rfc 822 format?

 

A googling resulted in this:

strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")

PHP:

Should do just fine.

 

Thanks, but I'm a php idiot .... and any other coding for that matter.

This is the date call

<pubDate>".($row['dtAdded'])."</pubDate>

How do I integrate the : strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")

Thanks

 

What does that part output right now?
I ask so I can determine the format of the date you are already working with, then we can convert it over to the format you need.

 

Thanks for the help Seriph

I think this is the standard sql format straight from the db.
<pubDate>2006-03-01</pubDate>

 

Try this...

"<pubDate>".strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", strtotime($row['dtAdded']))."</pubDate>"

PHP:

 

Genius thanks