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

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
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 ```
g:price

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/diveshop/index.php?main_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.

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/diveshop/index.php?main_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.

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.
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.

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.