RSS2 Feed Contribution

[djdavedawson]

Ok,

Sorry for the double post but i thought I should put more out here. I have downloaded and installed RSS 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26.

Let me also say I've been looking at this thread all day and I am just a bit confused.

As far as rss goes, it seems to be working beautifully. Safari and Firefox work as anticipated.

However I cant seem to figure out how to arrive at an xsl file or take advantage of the Google Base features.

There are alot of sections commented out in modules/pages/rss_feed/header.php . Do i need to uncomment things here?

Should I be adding vars to classes/rss_feed.php ?

to trigger this statement:

if(substr($stylesheet, -3) == 'xsl') {
$feedContent .= '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="' . $stylesheet . '" media="screen"?'.'>' . "\n";
}

Please help :)

Thanks in Advance

Dave D

[countrycharm]

Ok,

Sorry for the double post but i thought I should put more out here. I have downloaded and installed RSS 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26.

Let me also say I've been looking at this thread all day and I am just a bit confused.

As far as rss goes, it seems to be working beautifully. Safari and Firefox work as anticipated.

However I cant seem to figure out how to arrive at an xsl file or take advantage of the Google Base features.

There are alot of sections commented out in modules/pages/rss_feed/header.php . Do i need to uncomment things here?

Should I be adding vars to classes/rss_feed.php ?

to trigger this statement:

if(substr($stylesheet, -3) == 'xsl') {
$feedContent .= '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="' . $stylesheet . '" media="screen"?'.'>' . "\n";
}

Please help :)

Thanks in Advance

Dave D

Rss Feed has nothing to do with Google Base, if you want to upload a Google Base XML file you have to add the add on in the downloads Google Base (Froogle) Feeder for that. If the feed is displaying like it should in Safari and Firefox that is all it suppose to do so people can subscribe to the feed if they want to. Now that all said what are you trying to do?

[djdavedawson]

Googles merchant central which is like the new googlebase accepts rss style feeds. So I had installed this thinking it would produce an .xml file I could use. The closest thing I can find which looks like what i need is in the cache folder. I guess I can copy and paste out the information from there. I couldn't figure out why what was in there is pretty much what i need but why the module doesn't output it for you.

Oh and also, is the thing i read about rss feeds causing duplicate content and google penalizing your site true ??

[djdavedawson]

Alright I finally figured out why I couldn't easily find what I was looking for.

Basically using safari rss doesn't allow you to view the source in the right way, using firefox allowed me to see the source the way it's supposed to be.

Thought this may help some people.

Thanks for all your help

[andreitero]

Hello, i'm having some trouble validating my feed. Apparently the New Products feed is valid, but the Specials and All Product feeds are not valid because there is a duplicate guid value:

<guid isPermaLink="true">http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-standard-mountain-bike-p-45.html</guid>

These are my feeds:
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=specials
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=products
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...d=new_products

Can anyone help me fix this?
Thanks!

[andreitero]

Hello, i'm having some trouble validating my feed. Apparently the New Products feed is valid, but the Specials and All Product feeds are not valid because there is a duplicate guid value:

<guid isPermaLink="true">http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-standard-mountain-bike-p-45.html</guid>

These are my feeds:
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=specials
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...&feed=products
http://lemy.co.uk/index.php?main_pag...d=new_products

Can anyone help me fix this?
Thanks!

Update:
Apparently, something is wrong with that particular page on my website as it is duplicating in the rss feed and thus creating the double guid tag, which is the reason my rss feed is not valid. I have turned that page upside down and can't figure out what's wrong with it and i would hate to lose it because it is ranking on the first page on google uk for 'dunlop mountain bike'. I have searched for blank spaces using the scrip provided by andrew(thanks) and removed them. Anyone has any idea how to prevent that duplication without removing my page?
http://lemy.co.uk/dunlop-gents-stand...bike-p-45.html

[dancar]

Hi there,

I've read through as much of these threads as possible and haven't seen any issues like the one I have with the RSS feed.

Previously under 1.3.7 we used this mod fine with no issues to feel our special to affiliated websites. We have now updated to the latest version (clean install) 1.3.8a but with a brand new template.

Site can be found here:
www.f-h-e.com.au

When adding the mod (and having gone through the full process three times now) I am finding a few issues, the main one being that the feed is not being picked up by our affiliate sites using Joomla! (note the old feed from our old 1.3.7 site still works on these Joomla! sites).

Under Safari the RSS page seems to display "ok" as HTTP, and when switched toe "FEED" in the address bar it looks great.

feed://f-h-e.com.au/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products

In Firefox it will only show as HTTP and all it shows is text (no images or rendering). I am guessing that this will have something to do with why the Joomla! websites are not picking up the feed?

http://f-h-e.com.au/index.php?main_p...&feed=featured

The only thing I have changed from the main install is our template doesn't have a "html_header.php" file. I did write my own and the icon did appear in the address bar, which was great. But eliminate any extra bugs I have taken this away. So the only judge of the feed at the moment is the RSS button at the bottom of the site (which I will remove once it's all working).

If anyone can help it would be much appreciated. I am using the latest version of the Mod from the downloads section.

Daniel