RSS2 Feed Contribution

[misty]

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

[a_berezin]

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

[misty]

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

[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.

[misty]

Thanks for explanation Andrew, understand now.

[lloyd_borrett]

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...

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

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

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

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


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

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

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...

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

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.

[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.

[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.