php - Parsing error -- Creating an RSS feed with CodeIgniter -

hey guys, i'm creating rss feed codeigniter , specific error: xml parsing error: junk after document element location: http://mysite.com/feeds/latest

after googling , not being able find solution issue (despite ton of results) came here advice.

i have

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" version="2.0">   <channel> 

followed websites title, link, description, pubdate, dc:date tags.

followed foreach statement loops results so:

<?php foreach($feedresults $feeditem): ?>  <item>        <title><?php echo $feeditem->title; ?></title>           <link><?php echo site_url('/'.$feeditem->id) ?></link>           <guid><?php echo site_url('/'.$feeditem->id) ?></guid>     <description>descri[</description>           <pubdate><?php echo date ('r', $feeditem->time());?></pubdate>     </item>             <?php endforeach; ?> 

my codeigniter controller doesn't besides retrieve $feedresults, sets header : header("content-type: text/xml"); , passes results view.

thanks guys.

if save rss feed off .html extension you'll see it's not rss @ all, it's html error page:

errorexception [ parse error ]: syntax error, unexpected t_string

apppath/views/feeds_latest_view.php [ 1 ]

1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2 <rss xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" version="2.0"> 3   <channel> 4  5     <title>amazon.com gold box deals</title> 6     <link>http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox</link> 

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my guess have php short_tags enabled, means <? shorthand <?php , opens php code block. php choking when sees <?xml tries interpret xml processing directive block of php code.

to fix this, turn off short_tags in php.ini. or workaround writing php code emit directive:

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'; ?>