RSS2 Feed Contribution

[misty]

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.

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

[lloyd_borrett]

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.

[misty]

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.

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.

[lloyd_borrett]

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.

[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).

[paulm]

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



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

[a_berezin]

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

Absolutely. This is even written in the Readme Tips:

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

[lloyd_borrett]

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...

img {
 border:0;
 }

But it didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[yellow1912]

A link to your site would be better to fix.

[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).

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:

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

That should help you.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.