alchymyth on "fetch_feed(custom field url) printing out the url rather then using it"

apart from the fact that your code is near unreadable, because you did not use the code button as described in the forum rules:

if this is the end of your code:

foreach ($afl_items as $item) {
?>

//Echo out the RSS feed details
<p>get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank">
<?php echo $item->get_title(); ?><p>

then you are missing a closing curly bracket } to mark the end of the foreach loop; for instance:

foreach ($afl_items as $item) {
?>

//Echo out the RSS feed details
<p>blabla repair to show the link structure -get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank">
<?php echo $item->get_title(); ?><p>

<?php } ?>