RSS2 Feed Contribution

Generate RSS Feed for:
Categories;
Subcategories in category;
All Products;
Products in category;
Product by ID;
Product by MODEL;
New products;
New products in category;
New products random;
New products random in category;
Best sellers;
Best sellers in category;
Best sellers random;
Best sellers random in category;
Specials;
Specials random;
Featured;
Featured random;
Upcoming;
Upcoming in category;
Upcoming random;
Upcoming random in category;
News from News & Articles contribution.

Parameter "limit" support for all feeds except "random".

Support additional Google Base tags.

Add product image and BuyNow button to product description.

RSS is a powerful marketing tool!

Download

Thanks Andrew for making your latest RSS contribution
available for download
:clap:

Awesome, this is a great mod. Installed and working very well.

For some reason the title and description does not work tho, it shows:

RSS_TITLE
RSS_DESCRIPTION

Forget the bug I reported. It turned out that things are fixed once I run the sql patch again.

Sincerely

I've installed the mod and made the additions in the suggested php files but I don't see any buttons or ways to access the feed. Sorry if i'm dumb but what am i doing wrong?

Jason

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

I've installed the mod and made the additions in the suggested php files but I don't see any buttons or ways to access the feed. Sorry if i'm dumb but what am i doing wrong?
Jason

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On my install, had same problem
(could not see rss image)
UNTIL clicked on a product, scrolled
to footer(where had put rss link) and there was the rss icon..
Link to FULL rss feed should be i.e.
yourzencart/index.php?main_page=rss_feed
and
product feed would be i.e.
yourzencart/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products&products_id=52

Ok, thanks misty. I'm able to at least access the feed now.

I wanted to use this to upload an xml file to google base. Can someone tell me how to do that? I can't seem to figure out how to get the file.

Thanks,

jason

Question for Andrew.
How to add

Code:

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g:price

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to feed via rss.css so price shows.
Tried all sorts of possibilities or is there some other file
should use. Am assuming currency should also be added.
:(

misty!
Better use xsl. It provides more opportunities to display xml in html.

Thanks Andrew, but how to I code xsl for g price etc
Am using CaRP to display feed and have tried for hours
to get this configured.. have also posted on CaRP forums
for their feed settings for Google Base

misty,
I don't use CaRP and I can not help you.

Understood Andrew, but what code is used for g price in xsl?
What other prog do you suggest in place of CaRP?

It should be noted that not all browsers support RSS additional tags. And very few php-parsers do it. So, if you want 100% compatibility with all RSS-parsers, you must add information on prices and other relevant information (attributes, weight, model, manufacturer...) to the description tag.

Thanks for explanation Andrew, understand now.

G'day,

I've tried installing this module, but I'm having a few problems. I'm also finding the documentation a bit lacking.

Thankfully I've been told the URL I need to try and access the feed. On my site it's http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/divesh..._page=rss_feed.

But this gives a "Feed code error".

If did a "view source" on the feed and immediately spotted one issue.

The line...

Code:

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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="includes/templates/scubadoctor/css/rss.css"?>

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is obviously missing the first part of the URL, which in my case would be,

Code:

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http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/diveshop/

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So something is going on to cause this pathname to be generated incorrectly.


Second: The instructions say to put the line...

Code:

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<?php echo rss_feed_link_alternate(); // RSS Feed ?>

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into the includes/templates/your_template/common/html_header.php file. But nothing gets written in the header of a site pages. (Well I think that's the right file as the instructions don't give the full pathname.)

I suspect this is supposed to put something into every page header so that browers can identify a feed is available. But nothing is generated on any page I've tried so far.


Third. The instructions say to put the lines...

Code:

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<!--bof RSS Feed -->
<div id="RSSFeedLink"><?php echo rss_feed_link(RSS_ICON); ?></div>
<!--eof RSS Feed -->

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into the includes/templates/your_template/common/tpl_footer.php page. (Again, I think that's the right file as the instructions don't give the full pathname.) But again, nothing gets written into the footer of any page I've tried so far.

I suspect this is supposed to be putting a link to the feed into every site page footer. But I get nothing.

Fourth: In Zen Cart Admin / Configuration / RSS Feed, I'm asked to specify an RSS image. What is this supposed to be? An image filename like "rss.gif" or a URL to an image file?

Any help with any of the above would be most appreciated.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

G'day,

Okay, I'm now getting somewhere.

Once I specified that the RSS image was rss.gif, I started to see a link to the RSS Feed in the footer of most pages, but not the shop home page.

And on those pages that do have some form of feed, the header tag and the footer link are now being generated okay.

Plus that path to the CSS file is okay.

Though the link I was given of http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/divesh..._page=rss_feed still gives a Feed Code Error.

I must congratulate Andrew for how well it looks on the pages that are working.

Can someone please enlighten me?

Why isn't a link to a feed being generated on the home page of the shop? I would have thought this would be an important place to have a feed link.

It would be great to be able to say I want the home page to be the feed for Specials and/or New Products and/or Featured Products.

Has anyone produced a RSS Feed sidebar box that has links to the feed of the current page, plus the feeds for Specials, New Products, Featured Products, All Products etc.? Seems like this would be a good extra feature.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

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Originally Posted by lloyd_borrett

Has anyone produced a RSS Feed sidebar box that has links to the feed of the current page, plus the feeds for Specials, New Products, Featured Products, All Products etc.? Seems like this would be a good extra feature.

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http://www.dezinashop.com/demo/
RSS Feed sidebox showing latest products.
Top Right at above url.
A working rss feed, using generated xml file,
is required plus CaRP from
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/
HTH

Thanks Misty, but that's not what I meant.

I'm thinking of a sidebox that has links in to to the RSS Feeds for my shop, that customers are most likely to want to use.

So a box with links to the feeds for the current page, new products, specials, featured products etc.

So people can easily subscribe to those feeds.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

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Thanks Misty, but that's not what I meant.
I'm thinking of a sidebox that has links in to to the RSS Feeds for my shop, that customers are most likely to want to use.

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Sorry, cannot help you further here as do not understand
your requirements..sidebox i mentioned does link to rss
feed/s for each particular new product...just happens that
sidebox links are to rss feeds to my main site.. not demo site..
could configure to any zencart site product/s if required.

A side box with the following links:

This page RSS Feed - link to the RSS feed for the current page, i.e. same link as the RSS icon in the footer.

Specials RSS Feed - link to index.php?main_page=specials

New Products RSS Feed - link to index.php?main_page=products_new

Featured Products RSS Feed - link to index.php?main_page=featured_products

and so on for the major shop RSS feeds available.

In other words, the customer doesn't have to go to the new products page to subscribe to the new products feed. They'd be able to subscribe from any page in the shop.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

So a box with links to the feeds for the current page, new products, specials, featured products etc.

-> If not already included, this add-on can be easily written. First you have to learn how to create a sidebox (very easy), second you have to dig into rss mod code and see how it creates a rss link(I think I did have a look at this, it's not so hard).

Maybe use EZ-pages to add rss links to a box?



And: thanks for this excellent contribution by the way Andrew! :thumbsup:

G'day,

When I view a RSS Feed with IE7, the product images have a blue border.(See eaxmple in the attached image.)

This doesn't happen with Firefox.

Easy, I thought. I'll just drop some CSS code into includes/templates/your_template/css/rss.css and fix that.

The code I added was...

Code:

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img {
 border:0;
 }

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But it didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

A link to your site would be better to fix.

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Originally Posted by yellow1912

So a box with links to the feeds for the current page, new products, specials, featured products etc.

-> If not already included, this add-on can be easily written. First you have to learn how to create a sidebox (very easy), second you have to dig into rss mod code and see how it creates a rss link(I think I did have a look at this, it's not so hard).

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Yes, you've got it. Only the first link link for the current page should be a problem as is varies from page to page. The rest are fixed links.

The code used to put the link for the current page into the tpl_footer.php file is:

Code:

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<!--bof RSS Feed -->
<div id="RSSFeedLink"><?php echo rss_feed_link(RSS_ICON); ?></div>
<!--eof RSS Feed -->

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That should help you.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

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Originally Posted by paulm

Maybe use EZ-pages to add rss links to a box?

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Absolutely. This is even written in the Readme Tips:

Quote:

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3. You can create EZ-page with description of all your RSS Channels

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Originally Posted by yellow1912

A link to your site would be better to fix.

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Sorry, try http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/divesh...&feed=featured

I would suggest you try something like img a {text-decoration:none} since this has to do with the img acting as a link.

So am I to assume that this new contrib works correctly? With the conversation moving to side boxes and such, I have to ask.


I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $


...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???

:-)

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?

Jason

Quote:

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Originally Posted by StoryBook

So am I to assume that this new contrib works correctly? With the conversation moving to side boxes and such, I have to ask.


I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $


...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???

:-)

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Maybe. I'm not sure.

If the version you are using has people subscuibed to your feeds and this version uses different links to invoke the feeds, then you might have to consider the implications of changing to it as it might disturb the subscriptions those people have. But I'm not sure if this is the case or not. Other should be able to help you with that one.

I'm getting "Feed code error" when I try and view certain feeds. I have no idea as to whether this is a problem with my setup/configuration, or bugs in the module.

As examples, the following feeds produce "Feed code errors" for me...

http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/divesh..._page=rss_feed

http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/divesh...&feed=products

I can view the page source, and see what has been generated. But the error means nothing is displayed.

Also, I get no link to a feed on my shop's home page, or some other pages like privacy, my account etc. I don't know if that's the way it's supposed to be, if it's a problem with my setup/configuration, or a bug. I would have thought that there would be a "default" site feed that such pages would display. But maybe that's not the case as yet.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by yellow1912

I would suggest you try something like img a {text-decoration:none} since this has to do with the img acting as a link.

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That didn't work.

Neither did...

Code:

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item>description a img {
 margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;
 border-width: 0px;
 border-color: #ffffff;
 text-decoration: none;
 }

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Maybe I'm not targeting it properly?
Or, maybe IE7 just overides what's specified anyway?

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?
Jason

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Andrew would verify.. but maybe possible to view source via browser,
copy, and convert to xml file, which Google Base accepts.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?

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This is RSS Feed, not a google base feed!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by StoryBook

I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $


...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???

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No. Don't use this version.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?

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The format and content of a GoogleBase feed differs from the RSS2 specification. For more info you might want to search on "Google namespace" and/or "gdata".

But yes it would be cool if an "umbrella" ZC module could be developed, which supports "plug-ins" for different feed support (RSS, Google, yahoo, WLS, etc). And also allow mapping of ZC fields to specific feed attributes including mapping a string of of multiple ZC data fields to a specific feed attribute. For example integrate ZC standard and custom product data (e.g. price, ISBN, etc) into RSS2 item description attribute. And support generation of feeds with additional and/or custom attributes. But this wishlist is way off-topic for this thread. ;-)

Woody

Hey Andrew-

Glad you are back!!!!! :clap:

Woody

Quote:

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Originally Posted by lloyd_borrett

Why isn't a link to a feed being generated on the home page of the shop? I would have thought this would be an important place to have a feed link.

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Hi mate,

Did you manage to get this on the homepage? I'd like to have it in the header near the search bar. Got everything else working.


Although since i installed this a few hours ago, I've seen 2 orders not show up. Can't see how it would cause this problem, will look into it further.

Great contribution Andrew!

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

No. Don't use this version.

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Thanks Andrew, for responding so quickly!

Can you tell me what to watch for as to having this all fixed up and ready to go?

Thanks again,
SB

Hey, can anybody help me, I installed this mod but I keep getting this error:

<b>Warning</b>: strstr() [<a href='function.strstr'>function.strstr</a>]: Empty delimiter. in <b>/home/jjadmin/public_html/includes/classes/template_func.php</b> on line <b>59</b><br />
^

Quote:

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Originally Posted by StoryBook

Thanks Andrew, for responding so quickly!

Can you tell me what to watch for as to having this all fixed up and ready to go?

Thanks again,
SB

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You should wait until the other test this and detect errors, then I corrected them. And so on....

Hi Woody,
Glad to see you :)
Can you help me and write user friendly manual "How to use RSS-Feed marketing tool to increase your sales?"? :smartalec:

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

Hey Andrew-

Glad you are back!!!!! :clap:

Woody

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v 2.0.2 27.09.2007 12:45
1. Bug fixes;
2. Add 'RSS Home Page Feed' and 'RSS Default Feed' admin parameters;
3. Add support to <cloud> sub-element;
4. Extract rss_feed class to file /classes/rss_feed.php.

Now you can define rss feed for home page and all other non-predefined-rss-pages (non products pages).

Quote:

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

v 2.0.2 27.09.2007 12:45
1. Bug fixes;
2. Add 'RSS Home Page Feed' and 'RSS Default Feed' admin parameters;
3. Add support to <cloud> sub-element;
4. Extract rss_feed class to file /classes/rss_feed.php.

Now you can define rss feed for home page and all other non-predefined-rss-pages (non products pages).

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Where is this version available from? I check the downloads and its not there.

Thanks!

New version needs to be approved by the mods first, so check back later and you will see it.

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Originally Posted by Grimmy2007

Where is this version available from? I check the downloads and its not there.

Thanks!

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something not right here, 1st in Firefox the feed looks correct, but in IE it shows a lot of code, (same site)
2nd, I have two identical sites except 1 has less products listed, Now in Firefox only the 1st site shows as expected but the second site feed shows the feed but with no products, no text, just the subscribe menu at top
So is this cross browser compatible?

It is working fine for me (and most people here), it's probably just your problem. You may want to post the link here so we can look and give suggest something.

ok will check further

well I went to other PC's and getting same result.
I have this installed on 2 sites exact same and one works great in Firefox, the other shows no info just the feed page header and no data
so please take a look at these sites and give me your thought.
also IE doesn't look the same as Firefox does, can you tell me why?

http://digibydesign.com/cart/index.p..._page=rss_feed
and
http://digishopresources.com/index.p..._page=rss_feed
this last one works as I would think would be correct, (except IE)
also on the first site listed, I have tried uploading the files again and running the sql, this is my troubled site
Thanks for any help!!

weird, the 1st site listed now seems to work in Firefox, really I didnt do any changes :mellow:

shopmania.com rejected this feed from the RSS2 mod, don't know why exactly, I installed this mod just for getting into shopmania
http://digishopresources.com/index.p..._page=rss_feed
any way to make it work?

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

v 2.0.2 27.09.2007 12:45
1. Bug fixes;
2. Add 'RSS Home Page Feed' and 'RSS Default Feed' admin parameters;
3. Add support to <cloud> sub-element;
4. Extract rss_feed class to file /classes/rss_feed.php.
Now you can define rss feed for home page and all other non-predefined-rss-pages (non products pages).

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Where/how do I set "Add 'RSS Home Page Feed' and 'RSS Default Feed' admin parameters"?
Uninstalled completely your first module(v2.00 dated 22.09.07) including MYSQL,
uploaded latest module, including sql..do not see how/where to
set home/default feed..
:unsure:

v 2.0.3 28.09.2007 19:21
1. Bug fixes;
2. Code optimization;

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Originally Posted by misty

Where/how do I set "Add 'RSS Home Page Feed' and 'RSS Default Feed' admin parameters"?
Uninstalled completely your first module(v2.00 dated 22.09.07) including MYSQL,
uploaded latest module, including sql..do not see how/where to
set home/default feed..
:unsure:

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Admin->Configuration->RSS Feed->RSS Home Page Feed

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

Admin->Configuration->RSS Feed->RSS Home Page Feed

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Did not have that option via Admin/Configuration/RSS Feed..
de-installed, including sql, reinstalled from scratch,
still do not have that option in Admin/Configuration/RSS Feed

Quote:

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Originally Posted by misty

Did not have that option via Admin/Configuration/RSS Feed..
de-installed, including sql, reinstalled from scratch,
still do not have that option in Admin/Configuration/RSS Feed

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I just tried the install.sql that comes with 2.03, and I do have the new "RSS Home Page Feed" option.

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Originally Posted by paulm

I just tried the install.sql that comes with 2.03, and I do have the new "RSS Home Page Feed" option.

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Also tried 2.03, rss icon on main index page,
but still had no option in admin/configuration/rss feed/RSS Home Page Feed ..
uninstalled 2.03/sql, reinstalled/sql, same result.

Does anybody know why I get this message???

<b>Warning</b>: strstr() [<a href='function.strstr'>function.strstr</a>]: Empty delimiter. in <b>/home/jjadmin/public_html/includes/classes/template_func.php</b> on line <b>59</b><br />
^

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.0.1
does anybody have any suggestions? I would appreciate the help...

why I've this?
http://www.100asa.it/rss_feed.html
I've setup all in admin section.
I use SEO url

What do you put for "RSS Image"? A full URL to an image or ?. That's what I have in there now but in 2 readers, no image shows up besides the product images.

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for your works of Rss 2.0.3

It is nice .

But can you or some one help me with the problem that How i can enable the price and attribution of the products in RSS.

I do Enable the price in Admin-> configuration-> Rss Feed-> Generate product price to Ture.

But it seems dont work for me. No price is shown in RSS reader.

And also the Buy it Button doesnt show either.

I have little knowledge about RSS. Hope someone explain for me how to enable the price .etc.

Thanks

Adam

Hello all,

Very new to RSS so please bear with me. I have downloaded the RSS contrib for possible use. I need someone on here to tell me something really simple and in simple language.

What uses can I put the the RSS contrib to, within my website.

I am looking to set up a Zencart site, with many products for sale. I am currently experimenting with Easy Populate (enough said for now, but it is not going well) and considered I should look at other possible solutions.

For example, is it possible to use RSS to receive an XML Live Feed from my supplier to my website? What else can I do with it?

I am very new to RSS and would appreciate some very simple answers to my simple questions.

Best wishes,

Freshstart :frusty:

Hello misty,

can you give me any tips?

Thanks so much .

Adam

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

It should be noted that not all browsers support RSS additional tags. And very few php-parsers do it. So, if you want 100% compatibility with all RSS-parsers, you must add information on prices and other relevant information (attributes, weight, model, manufacturer...) to the description tag.

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How to do that, I really new to RSS. But very interested in Your Mod.
Could you show me a smaple . How to make Price or attributor out from the Reader. Coz, i can not get them listed in the reader. But you have the function in your mod. Maybe i am just too folish to figure it out. Andrew, or anybody show me the tips? Thanks...

Report the uncompitable bugs of this mod.

The Add to card in RSS reader seems not work with Ultimate SEO mod .

Once you click the add to card button. it shows

404 Error - Not Found
The resource you have requested could not be found on the server. There are many possible reasons for this. Either the file does not exist, there is an error in your request, or the file is not accessible in the requested directory. Please verify that:

You have used the proper case; requests ARE case-sensitive!
You have entered the URL correctly. (i.e. proper directory/filename)
You used the FULL URL. (i.e. proper file type: .html, .gif , .jpg, etc.)
You use a tilde (~) before user directories. (i.e. www.furcen.org/~jurann/ )
The user/file still exists on this server.

Still no ideas about how to let the price show in Rss Reader.
:(

Fortunately, My little IQ is not bad. Just figure it out how to make the price ,attribution, etc to the RSS Reader, Now it should be a very wonderful tools. THanks Andrew. I guess you are so busy arround.

But Andrew, How to make the Your RSS mod to be compatible with ultimate_seo_urls_2.105. I mean the BUY NOW BUTTON doest work as i descripted in #66.

What is the "permerlink" mean in code" array('url' => $link, 'PermaLink' => true)"??

Kind Wait.

Ok, forget about all the above problem. After 5 hours studying, I can make all of the above problem solved.. Thanks God

Hi Andrew-

I previously had RSS feed working for the older "News Manager" mod in ZC 1.27. But when migrated to ZC 1.3x the News Manager mod did not come with, as I chose to utilize built-in ez-pages instead.

Does your RSS mod have built-in support to create an RSS feed for ez-pages? Or does ez-pages already have built-in RSS support? I've searched and cannot locate any specifics on this.

I just made a relevant post to http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=444712

In that thread 'Studeo' has suggested some possible method/code to support a RSS feed for ez-pages.

I see your mod supports the 'News & Articles Mgmt' mod. Does your RSS mod support the "Infopages" mod (as used in Zen Cart 1.2x)? I ask since "ez-pages" which is built into Zen Cart 1.3x is based on the"Infopages" mod.

Thanks for any ideas.

Woody

Hi Woody,

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

But when migrated to ZC 1.3x the News Manager mod did not come with

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News Manager work in 1.3.7.

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

Does your RSS mod have built-in support to create an RSS feed for ez-pages?

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Of course not. Standart ez-pages so EZ (easy), that don't support creation/modification date, multi-language, seo and so on. So I feel foolish and wrong to create rss-channels for ez-pages.
You are not going to create rss-channels for other information pages: Shipping & Returns, Privacy Notice, Conditions of Use, Gift Certificate FAQ and greate Page 2 Page 3, Page 4.
rss is not a panacea.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

I just made a relevant post to http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=444712
In that thread 'Studeo' has suggested some possible method/code to support a RSS feed for ez-pages.

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No comments.

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

I see your mod supports the 'News & Articles Mgmt' mod.

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Yes, because it is the news system.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

Does your RSS mod support the "Infopages" mod (as used in Zen Cart 1.2x)?

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Of course not!!! I already forgot what is zen-1.2.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Woodymon

I ask since "ez-pages" which is built into Zen Cart 1.3x is based on the"Infopages" mod.

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How it correlated?????

P.S. I developed ez-pages to normal levels adding multilanguage, date of creation/modification and seo-suppot (title, keywords, description). This "x-pages" supported by RSS Feed, but not this version. I can add rss fo stadart ez-pages, but I do not think that this should be done. Prove to me that I am wrong.

Andrew and all,

Here is something I have noticed with this contribution....I don't know if it's a bug or a simple configuration setting.

PROBLEM: When you go to the RSS link for NEW PRODUCTS, it is not taking you to the new products which were added into our store. It appears that it's taking you to a list of the latest products PURCHASED in our store.

RSS LINK: http://www.mjmmagic.com/store/rss_fe...d=new_products

For example, if you were to purchase something from us, and then go to that link above, your items would be listed at the time, even though you may have purchased something that was added into our store years ago.

Any idea why that may be happening?

Could someone help me with a few problems?

1). When I view the feed for All Products I get the following error:

My feed reader reports no feed present.

IE7 gives the following error:

Quote:

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Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed because it uses an unsupported communication Protocol.

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This was working fine until my catalog hit about 700 products. I know this is a timeout issue but how would I change the timeout so that I can set the default products limit to include every product in my store (which will eventually be over 4000). Is it something to do with max_execution_time in the apache settings?
I relalise this is not very practical for buyers but I really need the All Products feed to show everything.

2). The Buy Now button is there but doesn't link to anything (just an image).

3). No prices are shown in the feeds.

Apart from these very fixable (I hope) issues, this is a fantastic add-on.

Many thanks go to Andrew

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Originally Posted by adam9110

Ok, forget about all the above problem. After 5 hours studying, I can make all of the above problem solved.. Thanks God

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Care to share your solutions with the rest of us?

First of all I would like to say thank you to Andrew for the great contribution. RSS is certainly a very important part of e-commerce.

I have managed to install the contribution and it is working somewhat. I have one strange bug to report, if in fact it is a bug at all, as it may just my settings.

I have set up the default feeds as "New Products" and I am generating a feed for some, but not all of the new products. Products will only appear on the feed if I: a) update the number of products on an existing listing; or b) the product is duplicated, then modified from an existing listing. If I input a new listing from scratch, it does not appear in the feed.

I hope this makes sense.

Sorry. Strike the above comment. It has started displaying all the New Products now. I changed the "Default Products Limit" from the default 100 to a blank.

Again thanks you to everyone working on improving this mod.

hillbilliz,
PM me link to your shop.

Updated - v 2.0.4_18.10.2007

THis mod was working fine until I installed the new version. Now I get this error:


1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100' at line 12
in:
[SELECT p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_image, GREATEST(p.products_date_added, IFNULL(p.products_last_modified, 0)) AS products_date, p.master_categories_id, p.products_price_sorter AS price, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_weight, p.manufacturers_id, m.manufacturers_name, r.reviews_rating FROM ABCproducts p LEFT JOIN ABCproducts_description pd ON (p.products_id = pd.products_id) LEFT JOIN ABCmanufacturers m ON (p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id) LEFT JOIN ABCreviews r ON (p.products_id = r.products_id) WHERE pd.language_id = 1 AND p.products_status = 1 AND p.master_categories_id = 22 AND p.products_id=10414 order by p.products_last_modified DESC p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100]



Help!

Jason

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

THis mod was working fine until I installed the new version. Now I get this error:


1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100' at line 12
in:
[SELECT p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_image, GREATEST(p.products_date_added, IFNULL(p.products_last_modified, 0)) AS products_date, p.master_categories_id, p.products_price_sorter AS price, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_weight, p.manufacturers_id, m.manufacturers_name, r.reviews_rating FROM ABCproducts p LEFT JOIN ABCproducts_description pd ON (p.products_id = pd.products_id) LEFT JOIN ABCmanufacturers m ON (p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id) LEFT JOIN ABCreviews r ON (p.products_id = r.products_id) WHERE pd.language_id = 1 AND p.products_status = 1 AND p.master_categories_id = 22 AND p.products_id=10414 order by p.products_last_modified DESC p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100]



Help!

Jason

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Same result as Jason, when installing v 2.0.4_18.10.2007

v 2.0.5 20.10.2007 15:47
1. Bug fixes;

Hello i am new here, can anyone help me with a problem? (please)
I have installed the latest mod but i have few problems

1) there is no rss image on the frontpage with the all products link

2) when i go to "Admin-> configuration-> Rss Feed->" there is nothing to see only an emty page. So i can not configure anything.

thanks a lot for any help

I have the SEO URLS too


The footer is giving me this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: rss_feed_link()

The Header gives me a completely other problem, something about not getting the feed


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: rss_feed_link_alternate() in /home/apbs77/public_html/includes/templates/apbs/common/html_header.php on line 24


my website: www.allpaintballsupplies.com

i have the Ultimate SEO URLS

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v 2.0.5 20.10.2007 15:47

i fixed it, for some reason it didn't copy all the php in there properly for the "yourtemplate"

The BUY NOW button doesn't appear to have a link.

Also, could the price be put with the title as TITLE - $price

Or perhaps as text near the BUY NOW button?

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Originally Posted by numinix

The BUY NOW button doesn't appear to have a link.

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And what?

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Originally Posted by numinix

Also, could the price be put with the title as TITLE - $price

Or perhaps as text near the BUY NOW button?

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Of course, you can do it.

I think it should be part of the contribution itself.

And WHAT? What do you mean? The BUY NOW button is just an image, clicking on it does nothing...

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Originally Posted by numinix

I think it should be part of the contribution itself.

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I do not think so.

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Originally Posted by numinix

And WHAT? What do you mean? The BUY NOW button is just an image, clicking on it does nothing...

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Really? You can set an example?

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

Really? You can set an example?

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Check my feed here.

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Originally Posted by spbennett

Check my feed here.

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Look nice in FF and terrible in IE. Use xsl stylesheet.

When I try to use an xsl stylesheet called rss.xsl and take a look at the HTML source I see:

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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/rss.xsl"?>

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Shouldn't that be:

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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/rss.xsl"?>

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?

(the xsl stylesheet does not seem to work at al, but because I'm new to this I am not sure if the above really is related)

I fixed the above by replacing 'xls' by 'xsl' (in rss_feed_v2.0.5_20.10.2007) in function rss_feed_out(), and I found the same typo in 2 readme files. So it was caused by a small typo.

Unfortunately my xsl stylesheet still doesn't work for some reason though. It seems server related because if I copy a sample xsl stylesheet to my local PC it works, but when I copy the same file to my server it does not. :( Even tried another server and the same xsl file works perfect again. :dontgetit

Does xsl depend on the server configuration?

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Does xsl depend on the server configuration?

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To answer my own question: the Mime Type setting on the server needs to be correct (changed it through .htaccess). The feed still does not listen to the stylesheet though (both are text/xml type now)....

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Originally Posted by paulm

I fixed the above by replacing 'xls' by 'xsl' (in rss_feed_v2.0.5_20.10.2007) in function rss_feed_out(), and I found the same typo in 2 readme files. So it was caused by a small typo.

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

Look nice in FF and terrible in IE. Use xsl stylesheet.

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R u saying that using the xsl stylesheet will solve the BUY NOW button issue? If not, then you haven't answered his question...

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

Thanks!

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yvw Andrew :-)

Do you think it would be useful to add a dynamic feed name feature? (Maybe you already have plans for this?) Having the same name for multiple subscribed feeds is quite confusing I think. Maybe add the word "featured" to the featured feed name , "specials" to the specials feed name etc etc?


And, I not sure if it's useful or not, and if it's the right way to fix this, but to prevent links like:

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<link>http://www.mydomain.com//</link>

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I changed (rss_feed.php class, function _clear_url()):

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      $out .= $pathinfo["dirname"] . '/';

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To:

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      // $out .= $pathinfo["dirname"] . '/';
      // prevent double slashes in path
      $out .= rtrim($pathinfo["dirname"], '/');
      $out .= '/';

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Hi paulm,

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Originally Posted by paulm

Do you think it would be useful to add a dynamic feed name feature? (Maybe you already have plans for this?) Having the same name for multiple subscribed feeds is quite confusing I think. Maybe add the word "featured" to the featured feed name , "specials" to the specials feed name etc etc?

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Good idea! Thanks! Maybe discuss this?

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Originally Posted by paulm

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      // $out .= $pathinfo["dirname"] . '/';
      // prevent double slashes in path
      $out .= rtrim($pathinfo["dirname"], '/');
      $out .= '/';

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This is the real problem? I have not met with it. Thank you, I might add.

About the feed names:
a quick and dirty fix might be to add the right part of the feed= parameter? But it would probably be a lot nicer if the products name, categories name, and translations of featured and specials etc would be added. Maybe add some code that determines the names to the switch/case header_php.php file? I don't know the rss feed code well enough and so I don't have more specific ideas (yet).

About the double slashes:

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

This is the real problem? I have not met with it.

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Looking at several sites that have the rss feed installed I do see the the double slashes, also in links to the products for example. I don't know what the real problem (and solution) is, but I think it's related to how dirname works. And a quick look at the code lead to this empirical fix :-)

Hi paulm,

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Originally Posted by paulm

About the feed names:
a quick and dirty fix might be to add the right part of the feed= parameter? But it would probably be a lot nicer if the products name, categories name, and translations of featured and specials etc would be added. Maybe add some code that determines the names to the switch/case header_php.php file? I don't know the rss feed code well enough and so I don't have more specific ideas (yet).

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You don't understand me. I do not ask "how?". I myself know this very well and know perfectly my own rss feed code.:smile: I ask you "what?". What you want to see in this rss feed. I think is not only complement the title, but also a description and maybe an image.

Maybe add all common <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"? Ex:

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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="MyCart New Products RSS Feed" href="index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=new_products" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="MyCart Upcoming Products RSS Feed" href="index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=upcoming" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="MyCart Featured Products RSS Feed" href="index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=featured" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="MyCart Specials Products RSS Feed" href="index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=specials" />

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