Title Unknown in Google Reader for drupal rss feeds

Can you provide a sample feed URL?

Also: have you tried it in other feed readers?

Thanks.

Rachel,

I recently ran into the same issue, and it didn't turn out to be an issue of access to my view.

I had to edit the theme_views_rss_feed function to add Atom to the namespace...that is the only edit I made and the title started to appear for me in Google Reader.

I have pasted the code below and highlighted the change I made from the Drupal 5 version of the function.

function theme_views_rss_feed($view, $nodes, $type) {
if ($type == 'block') {
return;
}
global $base_url;

$channel = array(
// a check_plain isn't required on these because format_rss_channel
// already does this.
'title' => views_get_title($view, 'page'),
'link' => url($view->feed_url ? $view->feed_url : $view->real_url, NULL, NULL, true),
'description' => $view->description,
);

$item_length = variable_get('feed_item_length', 'teaser');
$namespaces = array('xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"', 'xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"');

// Except for the original being a while and this being a foreach, this is
// completely cut & pasted from node.module.
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
// Load the specified node:
$item = node_load($node->nid);
$link = url("node/$node->nid", NULL, NULL, 1);

if ($item_length != 'title') {
$teaser = ($item_length == 'teaser') ? TRUE : FALSE;

// Filter and prepare node teaser
if (node_hook($item, 'view')) {
node_invoke($item, 'view', $teaser, FALSE);
}
else {
$item = node_prepare($item, $teaser);
}

// Allow modules to change $node->teaser before viewing.
node_invoke_nodeapi($item, 'view', $teaser, FALSE);
}

// Allow modules to add additional item fields
$extra = node_invoke_nodeapi($item, 'rss item');
$extra = array_merge($extra, array(array('key' => 'pubDate', 'value' => date('r', $item->created)), array('key' => 'dc:creator', 'value' => $item->name), array('key' => 'guid', 'value' => $item->nid . ' at ' . $base_url, 'attributes' => array('isPermaLink' => 'false'))));
foreach ($extra as $element) {
if ($element['namespace']) {
$namespaces = array_merge($namespaces, $element['namespace']);
}
}

// Prepare the item description
switch ($item_length) {
case 'fulltext':
$item_text = $item->body;
break;
case 'teaser':
$item_text = $item->teaser;
if ($item->readmore) {
$item_text .= '

'. l(t('read more'), 'node/'. $item->nid, NULL, NULL, NULL, TRUE) .'

';
}
break;
case 'title':
$item_text = '';
break;
}

$items .= format_rss_item($item->title, $link, $item_text, $extra);
}

$channel_defaults = array(
'version' => '2.0',
'title' => variable_get('site_name', 'drupal') .' - '. variable_get('site_slogan', ''),
'link' => $base_url,
'description' => variable_get('site_mission', ''),
'language' => $GLOBALS['locale'],
);
$channel = array_merge($channel_defaults, $channel);

$output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
$output .= "\n";
$output .= format_rss_channel($channel['title'], $channel['link'], $channel['description'], $items, $channel['language']);
$output .= "\n";

drupal_set_header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');
print $output;
module_invoke_all('exit');
exit;
}

Good luck, hope that works out for you.
Micah

If you driving your rss feeds from view make sure you have given the view a title.

Try selecting "Title" for the feed in Views, and check the option "Use the site name for the title."

This was the only way I could find to get a title for the feed in Google Reader, without coding anything. Worked in Drupal 6.12 with views-6.x-2.5.

Kieran

this line:

$namespaces = array('xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"', 'xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"');

needs a trailing slash after Atom, then it works...

k

The above solutions did not work for me in D5. Still getting (title unknown) in Google Reader. The View has a title and line 128 of views_rss.module was changed to this

$namespaces = array('xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"', 'xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom/"');

With and without trailing slashes, neither works.

Hi,

I had the same problem. After an hour or two I figured out that if I use http://www.example.com/rss.xml, the feed tittle displays in Google reader, but if I use http://example.com/rss.xml it doesn't. It seams that Google reader has a problem with urls without www (or probably subdomain). Hope this helps someone else.

Many of the above solutions suggest directly editing files from the Views module to add the necessary Atom namespace attribute, but that is not recommended since your changes will get overwritten when you update the module. A very simple alternative is to implement the preprocess function for the views-view-rss.tpl.php template in your custom theme (place this in template.php):

/*
** http://api.drupal.org/api/views/theme!theme.inc/function/template_preprocess_views_view_rss/6
*/
function YOURTHEMENAME_preprocess_views_view_rss (&$vars) {
	// $vars['namespaces'] = drupal_attributes($style->namespaces);
	// http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/drupal_attributes/6
	$style = $vars['view']->style_plugin;
	$namespaces = array_merge($style->namespaces, array("xmlns:atom" => "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"));
	$vars['namespaces'] = drupal_attributes($namespaces);
}

Note the array_merge() so that the existing namespace attributes (provided by Views) don't get overwritten.