UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Bug Reports Fixed Bugs [DUPLICATE] XML issue with Firefox

opening XML output from my forums brings up the following error in Firefox:


it seems firefox thinks that XML declarations should be done on the very first line of the file. the XML output being produced by UBB is inserting a blank line at the beginning of the file.

firefox rendering of XML files also complains about & chars in some sections.

This was reportet somewhere here. There is a blank line in the template that need to be removed.

Yes, here's the post.

i've fixed the problem with the blank line. now firefox is complaining about ampersands (&) in various places:


unfortunately, many of my forum names use "&" in theor names!

yeh, i think we need to start using htmlspecialchars()

Hmm, we are using htmlspecialchars for both the subject and body. I think the problem is we aren't using it for the feed title itself. It looks like the fix will be on line 2589 of libs/ubbthreads.inc.php

Currently, that reads:

$smarty->assign("feed_name",$feed_name);

when it should be:

$smarty->assign("feed_name",htmlspecialchars($feed_name));

I know we aren't on forum descriptions or category/forum names (which would be nice for validity and all)

this has fixed the title problems.

however, now i notice that the posts being generated in the RSS feed seem to be random. they are not following any recognizable logical order. i had wanted the last 10 or so newest posts to be generated into the feed, instead, it gets the last post, and then seems to select old posts at "random".