Providing you're running PHP 8.0 I think or greater this should silence the error.

$xml = simplexml_load_string($data) ?? '';
That's two single quotes.

Its data is an empty string so nothing was returned.

I can do that. I can't figure out the conditions that are causing it as far as a pattern. Now the same errors for a different feedburner feed started showing up in smaller numbers on another forum I upgraded from 2.0... to now 2.1.6. The errors go away for a while after I disable and re-enable the RSS feeds. I will create a new block and see what happens. Thanks

I'm just running testing that rss feed on one of my test sites, no errors yet though.  I take the errors only start after a period of time or when certain conditions are met?

Because of the various upgrades your site has gone through, I wonder if it's worth you creating a new rss block and turning the old one off for a while and see what happens.

I should add that when I disable the RSS feed block on the forum and re-enable it for a while there are no errors. Lasted a few hours that last time I did this and then the errors started back up later in the day. I did the same today and so far no new errors.

The RSS feed is: https://feeds.feedburner.com/greatlakesbass/bbfz

Recently probably after updating the forum to version 2.1.6 I'm getting lots of Tiny Portal-related errors like:
"simplexml_load_string(): ^" and "simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Document is empty" hundreds like these. As far as I see all are related to one line of code: "/home/username/public_html/forum/Sources/TPSubs.php (Line 1738).
$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);Not sure why this is happening or what to do about. I have the latest version 3.0.2 installed of Tiny Portal having upgraded over time from a number of versions.


Link to my forum: https://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/
SMF version: SMF ver. 2.1.6
TP version: TP ver. 3.0.2
Default Forum Language: English
Theme name and version: GanderGreen2.1.4b
Browser Name and Version: Chrome
Mods installed: Simple Audio Video Embedder 7.0.6, Join Reason 3.0.0, SMF 2.1.5, TinyPortal 3.0.2 (from 2.3.1), RSS Feed Icon 2.0.1, SMF Gallery Pro 10.3,   Stop Forum Spam 1.5.6, Global Headers Footers 2.1a, SMF 2.1.6
Related Error messages: simplexml_load_string(): ^

It is not released yet, but I expect it to be this month

Quote from: @rjen on January 02, 2026, 08:10:51 PMIt has been fixed in TP version 3.0.3

Where can I download this?  I'm only seeing 3.0.2 available for recent updates.

Tried to replicate this today and it works ok.

What PHP version is installed on the site?

You don't: the recent topics block shows just that : the Topic title of the topics that are recently replied to.

The Re: prefix is only relevant to the replies. The recent topic shows the Topic title, not the replies...

This is on purpose and cannot be changed