Lilina is great open source server side RSS aggregator written in PHP, the latest stable version at this time is 0.7. I just installed it and found some problem.

After install Lilina 0.7 and following it’s INSTALL instruction, it just didn’t work after all:  all the web page is empty with nothing.  I didn’t touch PHP stuff for many years, so just fix this issue by “what I feel”.

1. Debug

Fortunately debug PHP is simple, just run those PHP pages in command line, the output will display in console, so I will not have to look inside the logs. The problem quickly show up:

PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare class soapclient in /var/www/html/lilina-0.7/inc/nusoap.php on line 4096

2. Problem

Google it, the problem is clear, because PHP5 already have a class named “soapclient“. A solution was found here.

3. Quick & dirty fix

Quickly browsed the code, the only place use nusoap.php is inc/google.php, this is used for:

Enabling Google Web APIs support:
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lilina is now able to automatically query Google for the title of each item
and show the top 10 results. To do so you must have a “Google Web APIs key” that
you can obtai for free from http://www.google.com/apis/.

I don’t think I need this, so I just edit lib.php, comment out the include of “google.php”,  and search “google” and find the line:

        $out .=   google_get_res($title,0) ;

change it to:

        $out .=  “”; // google_get_res($title,0) ;

Then it works.

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