RSS2 Feed Contribution

[LittleOleMeDesigns]

Well that does explain a few things.. no wonder I couldn't find a place to populate the feed. thank-you for taking the time to explain that for me

I've heard a few people saying that they export the feeds to shopping sites, like yahoo... is this the same feed, or it that something else??

And why don't I have products showing up in the feed? http://zencart-demo-store.littleolem...&feed=products

I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid questions.. normally I'm pretty good at picking up on things.. and this is just going right over my head for some reason.

[craftzombie]

I've heard a few people saying that they export the feeds to shopping sites, like yahoo... is this the same feed, or it that something else??

I'm not quite sure what you mean. As far as this being the same kind of feed... well an RSS feed is an RSS feed. If they are "exporting feeds to shopping sites", this RSS feed shouldn't be any different than any other RSS feed. As far as exporting to shopping sites like Yahoo, I am confused. I mean, you can subscribe to the feed using "My Yahoo", but thats all I know about.

And why don't I have products showing up in the feed? http://zencart-demo-store.littleolem...&feed=products

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but since you are using the demo store, the newest product was added on November 3, 2003. Since I didn't write this mod and am not an RSS expert, I don't know for sure if that is the problem. Try adding a product right now and see if it shows up on the feed a little while after that. Maybe those products are too old???? If that doesn't work, well... at least I tried!

[craftzombie]

I've heard a few people saying that they export the feeds to shopping sites, like yahoo... is this the same feed, or it that something else??

Maybe you're looking for something like this:

Google Base Feeder

or this:

Yahoo Product Submit Feeder

[brianosc]

Hi,

******** Issue: Getting price to show up in the feed

Thanks Andrew for a great contribution. Have got it working great with everything except: Price. Have read all 33 pages of the forum and found a lot of posts on here about getting the price field to show up, but can't work out from these about how to actually make prices show up.

Can anyone who has got the price to show up in their RSS feed to PLEASE help by explaining how they got it to work?

Using Google Reader as the preferred RSS reader and the latest version of the contribution (11 March 2008). Zen cart 1.37.

Thanks so much in advance!

[craftzombie]

Hi,

******** Issue: Getting price to show up in the feed
Can anyone who has got the price to show up in their RSS feed to PLEASE help by explaining how they got it to work?

Using Google Reader as the preferred RSS reader and the latest version of the contribution (11 March 2008). Zen cart 1.37.

Same here... can't get price or images to show up in Google Reader either. Images show up in Yahoo's reader, but no prices.

[a_berezin]

Forgot about price, images and any other additional tags if you use Google Reader or any another reader, that don't support it!!! RTFM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[misty]

Forgot about price, images and any other additional tags if you use Google Reader or any another reader, that don't support it!!! RTFM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew, can you recommend a reader then that does support price, images etc et?

[a_berezin]

Andrew, can you recommend a reader then that does support price, images etc et?

Unfortunately no :-( Only self-making.

I think the price could be included in the description? It now includes a picture.

[craftzombie]

RTFM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which one? If you are referring to your readme, I didn't see anything about those things not working with Google Reader, etc.

And you don't need to be rude. If you are getting that frustrated with our questions, maybe contributing things isn't for you.

[kuroi]

Which one? If you are referring to your readme, I didn't see anything about those things not working with Google Reader, etc.

I suspect that Andrew may be referring to the Google Reader, etc. documentation. Although his readme can realistically be expected to cover the major points of this mod, it wouldn't be reasonable to expect him to document its impact on every conceivable reader in use now and in the future that people might use. So rather like for browsers, you need to work out what your visitors might use and familiarise yourself with them and their limitations and likely interactions with this mod.

And you don't need to be rude. If you are getting that frustrated with our questions, maybe contributing things isn't for you.

Andrew can sometimes get a bit hot under the collar. But hey, so do many of us who contribute regularly and feel that we're taking flack for users own installation mistakes, misunderstandings about what mods are supposed to do, or other things that are obviously out of our control, or just being asked the same question for the umpteenth time by somebody who clearly hasn't searched the thread.

I stress, craftzombie, that I'm not saying that this is the case here, just that this frustration tends to build up, and needs to be released from time-to-time. I guess you were in the wrong place when Andrew needed to release his.

Stepping back from that, Andrew has made a huge contribution to the mods available for Zen Cart - not only those with his name on, but also several that have been taken forward by other people building on his foundations. So even if he sometimes gets a tetchy at times, were to take your advice this community would be impoverished by his absence.