By mkogel on

I have enabled the Aggregator Module and created various categories and feeds from Google Alerts.

1) See output on this link

http://montyscorner.org/aggregator/categories

You will see that the news teasers show HTML tags. The XML feed contains html tags but Aggerator Module is not rendering as HTML.

How can I avoid it? It looks really ugly.

Thanks in advance

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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mkogel commented

After searching long for answers I found the issue being discussed in this link.

http://drupal.org/node/311511

The solution suggested in #20 seems to be working. It cleans up the HTML tags from the title.

However, the remaining issue is the special characters which are not displayed properly.

I am not a developer so I need idiots guide sometimes

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mkogel commented

OK, after a painful search for PHP functions (I am not a coder and do not understand much however I can copy examples) it looks like I have resolved the ' problem. I believe that with this solution all special characters will show normal.

Google Alert XML contains this in the title tag

Nature&#39;s <b>Child</b> Blog - Wholesome Ideas for Mothers and Babies:

Strip-tags() function nicely removes the html tags before they are inserted into the database.

Now I have made the following adjustment in the xml_parser_free($xml_parser); function starting in line 722.

// Resolve the item's title. If no title is found, we use up to 40
    // characters of the description ending at a word boundary but not
    // splitting potential entities.
    if (!empty($item['TITLE'])) {
      $title = $item['TITLE'];
    }

into this one

// Resolve the item's title. If no title is found, we use up to 40
    // characters of the description ending at a word boundary but not
    // splitting potential entities.
    if (!empty($item['TITLE'])) {
      $title = html_entity_decode($item['TITLE'], ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8");
    }

This way the title is decoded of speacial characters.

Ok, as a newbie, am I good or good. I hope that this is the end of aggregator issues.

I am not a developer so I need idiots guide sometimes

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markmainsail commented

that worked great for me. Thank you very much!

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farclouds commented

That was an awesome quick fix for a core module problem! (though I guess it's more Google's problem than the module's)

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aravindajith commented

Worked for me! :)

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FSMDrupal commented

This didnt work on Drupal 7 for me but it was close to what worked which I found at http://drupal.org/node/1805278

the key is the missing strip_tags.

Thus In aggregator.parser.inc, function aggregator_parse_feed, replace

// Resolve the item's title. If no title is found, we use up to 40
// characters of the description ending at a word boundary, but not
// splitting potential entities.
if (!empty($item['title'])) {
$item['title'] = $item['title'];
}

with
/// Resolve the item's title. If no title is found, we use up to 40
// characters of the description ending at a word boundary, but not
// splitting potential entities.
if (!empty($item['title'])) {
$item['title'] = html_entity_decode(stI replaced it with

if (!empty($item['title'])) {
$item['title'] = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($item['title']), ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8");
}