RSS2 Feed Contribution

Hello,

I have the plugin installed on our ZenCart site - it shows up properly on all of the pages but doesn't seem to generate the feed itself properly for anything except for the primary 'base' feed.

For example:

myzencart/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=new_products

Shows a blank page, but the base rss_feed page shows the proper feed, ie:

myzencart/index.php?main_page=rss_feed

Any ideas why the feed wouldn't be working for any subcategories or other pages other than the base feed url?

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Originally Posted by craftzombie

look in includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php. Once you make the changes, save the file in includes/templates/your_template/common/html_header.php so that it won't be overridden during a zencart upgrade. (your_template = the name of the template you are using)

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I did that, thanks. It is now set correctly, though I am not sure what exactly it is supposed to do. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by elishama3

I understand from reading the thread that this is due to spaces at the end of certain language files. I went through a whole bunch of them and deleted any spaces at the end, but there are so many I would love it if someone could narrow it down for me. Is it a space at the end of any language file, or certain types?

Thanks

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I have taken out all the blank lines in all of my language files, all my sidebox files, and a few random others. Still getting the error message.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

Again, the error message is: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://www.phoenixflightpublications...&feed=products
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

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Originally Posted by elishama3

I did that, thanks. It is now set correctly, though I am not sure what exactly it is supposed to do. Thanks.

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Now that it is installed correctly, in Firefox you should see the orange RSS icon in the address bar at the top of the browser. In IE, there should be an orange RSS icon next to your tabs on the right, underneath the address bar.

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Originally Posted by craftzombie

Now that it is installed correctly, in Firefox you should see the orange RSS icon in the address bar at the top of the browser. In IE, there should be an orange RSS icon next to your tabs on the right, underneath the address bar.

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Nifty! It is there!

Is there a way I can configure which feeds I want/don't want? I really only want to have one, maybe two types of feeds for the site.

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Originally Posted by elishama3

Nifty! It is there!

Is there a way I can configure which feeds I want/don't want? I really only want to have one, maybe two types of feeds for the site.

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When I first installed this mod, I figured out how to do that. I only wanted to use the New Products and Specials feeds and I was successful in removing the other ones. When I installed an updated version of the mod, I couldn't for the life of me remember where I made those changes. I haven't really had any time to look around in the files though. When I have time and figure it out, I'll let you know.

or if anyone else knows.....

BTW, I found two bugs in the includes/classes/rss_feed.php file:
lines 406-407 are:
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$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = '?;
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$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = '?';
but they should be:
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$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = '?';
#
$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = '?';

and lines 429-430 are:
#
$st_in[] = '@<li>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n?.chr(160);
#
$st_in[] = '@<h\d>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n\n";
but they should be:
#
$st_in[] = '@<li>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n?.chr(160)";
#
$st_in[] = '@<h\d>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n\n";

hope this helps someone.

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Originally Posted by elishama3

BTW, I found two bugs in the includes/classes/rss_feed.php file:
lines 406-407 are:
#
$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = '?;
#
$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = '?';
but they should be:
#
$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = '?';
#
$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = '?';

and lines 429-430 are:
#
$st_in[] = '@<li>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n?.chr(160);
#
$st_in[] = '@<h\d>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n\n";
but they should be:
#
$st_in[] = '@<li>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n?.chr(160)";
#
$st_in[] = '@<h\d>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n\n";

hope this helps someone.

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the code is my file is....

Code:

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$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = '—';
$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = '®';

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Code:

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$st_in[] = '@<li>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n•".chr(160);
$st_in[] = '@<h\d>@i'; $st_out[] = "\n\n";

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Well...I added a bunch of products yesterday...and then I deleted the RSS file that showed up in my root.....

Now my new products feed doesn't work at all.

Okay...let me start from the beginning and go to the end of this issue...maybe someone can tell me where I screwed up.

I installed 2.1.3 and it worked fine except it filled my root folder with the RSS_(randomnumbers) files....

I saw that a_berezin created an upgrade. Colemanpa said that it fixed the issue for him....so I downloaded the upgrade...overwrote the files and ran the 2.1.3_upgrade file. I got an SQL error.

I ran the 2.1.4 Full install .sql file as Colemanpa said, it seemed to work fine, however I was wrong. It didn't update the new_products feed. I noticed that there were RSS_(randomnumbers) files back in my root directory. I deleted them and the new_products feed updated.

Last night I deleted them again to get the new_products feed to update again, however...instead it just deleted EVERYTHING from the new_products feed. I uninstalled 2.1.4 (deleted all the files and ran the uninstall.sql file)

I reinstalled 2.1.4 and it didn't fix it at all. So I decided to go back to 2.1.3 and that's not even working now. So now I've uninstalled 2.1.3 and I've reinstalled 2.1.4....

I'm not a coder whatsoever, but I'm assuming there is something that got screwed up when I tried to upgrade the first time. I backed my database up back then...but since then I've added a bunch of new products and some new customers....I don't want to lose all of that work. What can I do to fix this?