RSS and localization

[jackdaw]

First thank you AshDigg, Yankidank & co for this great CMS. And beatniak for sharing the Mollio-Beat Template 1.0. With the beta 7 release and the mollio template, I've managed to get a Faroese languaged 'digg-clone' almost totally working, even if I'm very much a newbie. See http://www.sjey.com/

But I'm having trouble with especially the RSS feeds. Because of some special nordic characters like ð and ø and á, I've had to replace the UTF-8 charset/encoding strewn around in the Pligg source code with ISO-8859-1. And now it looks like it is working everywhere but in the RSS feeds (and maybe the 'friendly URL's).

I've tried replacing the UTF-8 in rss2.php with ISO-8859-1, and although it now looks better when looking at eg. the http://www.sjey.com/rss2.php?status=all xml-file, the nordic characters get replaced with '�' when added for example as Live Bookmarks in Firefox. That is my issue.

Also, as mentioned, all special characters get dropped in my friendly URLs. I guess that this is because of some similar issue as with the RSS feeds. And I understand that I maybe shouldn't have ð and ø and ý's in my URL. But could it be replaced with some substitute character (eg. ð -> d) ?

I'm SO close now, to have this site ready for launch. So please please help me :-)

(and by the way, in this forum it is REALLY hard to search for posts about RSS, as the word is too short to be used as a search word)

[jackdaw]

I just realized that when concerning category URLs, Pligg works fine with non-english characters.

OK, the URL for eg. my category 'Løgið' gets changed from http://www.sjey.com/index.php?category=Løgið to http://www.sjey.com/index.php?category=L%F8gi%F0 in the browser address bar. But that is a small price to pay, when they both still work, and I don't have to try to read a link like (if we were talking the friendly story URLs) "http://www.sjey.com/index.php?category=Lgi".

So, somebody with programming skills... how do I make the friendly URLs work in the same way as the category URLs?

[jackdaw]

Right, I think I solved it myself :)

Change line 119 in rss2.php from

echo '<?phpxml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?'.'>' . "\n";

to

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?'.'>' . "\n";

Also, if you're having trouble with special characters, it might help to change the encoding from "UTF-8" to "ISO-8859-1". I use nordic characters like ð and æ and ý, and they look fine now in Firefox live bookmarks, Opera and Google Reader.

[jalso]

hi,

(sorry, my english is very poor :( )

i had a several problem with special central european characters in a title. function makeUrlFriendly in utils.php removes non english characters, and when a word in a title contains only 1-2 "english" characters the friendly url looks like ugly :(

I write a second function undiacrtc() wich replaces special chars to regular. example:

á => a
etc..

i call this function before preg_replace in makeUrlFriendly() function.:


function makeUrlFriendly($input) {
// this function taken from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/functio...lace.php#54517
// then modified with the help of "j0zf" and "caomhin"
Global $db;

$input = undiacrtc(substr($input, 0, 240));

$output = preg_replace("/\b(an?d?|f?o(r|f)|the)\b/i" , "" , $input);

$output = trim($output);

// Replace spaces with underscores
$output = preg_replace("/\s/e" , "_" , $output);

// Remove non-word characters
$output = preg_replace("/\W/e" , "" , $output);

// $output = preg_replace( '/(_a_|_an_|_the_|_and_|_or_|_of_|_for_)/i', '_', $output );

$output = str_replace("_", "-", $output);
$output = str_replace("--", "-", $output);

$n = $db->get_var("SELECT count(*) FROM links WHERE link_title_url like '$output%'");
if ($n > 0)
{return $output . "-$n";}
else
{return $output;}


}

// my function is:


function undiacrtc( $text ) {
$replace=array(
'á' => 'a',
'Á' => 'A',
'é' => 'e',
'É' => 'E',
'í' => 'i',
'Í' => 'I',
'ó' => 'o',
'Ó' => 'O',
'ú' => 'u',
'Ú' => 'U',
'ü' => 'u',
'Ü' => 'U',
'ö' => 'o',
'Ö' => 'O',
'õ' => 'o',
'Õ' => 'O',
'û' => 'u',
'Û' => 'U',
'¾' => 'l',
'š' => 's',
'è' => 'c',
'?' => 't',
'ž' => 'z',
'ý' => 'y',
'ô' => 'o',
'ä' => 'a',
'ò' => 'n',
'å' => 'l',
'¼' => 'l',
'Š' => 's',
'È' => 'C',
'?' => 'T',
'Ž' => 'Z',
'Ý' => 'Y',
'Ò' => 'N',
'Å' => 'L',
'ì' => 'e',
'Ì' => 'E',
);

foreach ($replace as $key => $value) {
$text = ereg_replace($key, $value, $text );
}

return $text;
}


example title: starý článok

before my modification the url looks like:
story.php?title=star-lnok

after my modification:

story.php?title=stary-clanok

[jackdaw]

thank you jalso, that works great :)

[edupin]

Jalso, could you explain a little more your method, or put your utils.php file for download, because I try it but it does not work : either I get an error or it does not change anything in the urls.