RSS2 Feed Contribution

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 :laugh:

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.littleolemedesigns.net/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&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. :wacko:

LittleOleMeDesigns:

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.

LittleOleMeDesigns:

And why don't I have products showing up in the feed? http://zencart-demo-store.littleolemedesigns.net/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&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! :smile:

LittleOleMeDesigns:

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

Is the RSS feed supposed to show up in regular search?

Thanks

Thank-You so much for trying. I'll try adding a product and see if that makes a difference. Seems like it should be retroactive if it's not.. but I guess the nature of a rss feed is to show new items... still.. there should be a way to get it to show existing items... hmmmmm... :huh:

I think that google base feeder and yahoo product submit feeder are what I'm looking for. I know there is some way to use the rss feed to submit your products to these mass shopping engines. I'm going to do some more research into that. I was more concerned with getting the rss feed to show products first.

Thank-You so much for trying to help me figure all this out!! :smile:

LittleOleMeDesigns:

Thank-You so much for trying. I'll try adding a product and see if that makes a difference. Seems like it should be retroactive if it's not.. but I guess the nature of a rss feed is to show new items... still.. there should be a way to get it to show existing items... hmmmmm... :huh:

I think that google base feeder and yahoo product submit feeder are what I'm looking for. I know there is some way to use the rss feed to submit your products to these mass shopping engines. I'm going to do some more research into that. I was more concerned with getting the rss feed to show products first.

Thank-You so much for trying to help me figure all this out!! :smile:

Your featured and specials feeds are working fine. I believe the all products feed should show all products, regardless of when they were added, so there is a problem with that feed.

v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26

1. Fix typo in rss_feed_title();
2. Bugfix - fixed duplicated products;
3. Move all cache functions to rss_feed class.
4. Add cache files clear.

Please test it before using on products shops.

I'll go through and try all that out. I'm trying to figure this out for a client.. so it's on a demo shop currently.. so if I break it playing around.. no worries.. :wink:

Okay, this is probably going to be a stupid question....but I'm going to ask anyway.

I've downloaded the latest update. However, there are no upgrade instructions, and the .sql files don't have an upgrade to 2.14. Should I just "assume" that all I have to do is over-write the old files?

Hi,

I installed RSS and it works fine. I am not sure how to make use of it to bring in more traffic. Any suggestion? Thanks.

NFM:

I've downloaded the latest update. However, there are no upgrade instructions, and the .sql files don't have an upgrade to 2.14. Should I just "assume" that all I have to do is over-write the old files?

there was a readme.txt in what I downloaded, and for the SQL upgrade the file names that came in the zip are update_2_0_2.sql, and update_2_1_3.sql

Andrew don't know what you did in this version but it works! no blank page, and no more files in the cache directory, thanks:clap:

colemanpa:

Andrew don't know what you did in this version but it works!
I remade a lot, but not enough. Much remained in todo-list.

colemanpa:

there was a readme.txt in what I downloaded, and for the SQL upgrade the file names that came in the zip are update_2_0_2.sql, and update_2_1_3.sql

Andrew don't know what you did in this version but it works! no blank page, and no more files in the cache directory, thanks:clap:

Right....I saw those.

readme.txt is for new installs, doesn't explain how to upgrade

This version is 2.1.4, the update says it's to update to 2.1.3

So....now I'm back to where I started....

Do I just overwrite the files? Or is the sql update actually for 2.1.4?

NFM I believe that if you follow the install instructions and use the right upgrade SQL file you will be set, and I think the right upgrade path is if you have 2.1.3 then use update_2_1_3.sql and that's your upgrade, if you have 2.0.2 then use update_2_0_2.sql

Ahh!....That makes more sense now!

Man...I really feel stupid today.

Okay...I ran the sql update and got a duplicate entry error.....

1062 Duplicate entry 'RSS_DEFAULT_IMAGE_SIZE' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO zen_configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES (NULL, 'Generate Products Images Size', 'RSS_DEFAULT_IMAGE_SIZE', 'large', 'What image size Generate (extended tag <g:image_link>)', @configuration_group_id, 99, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array('small', 'medium', 'large'),'), (NULL, 'Feed Cache Time', 'RSS_CACHE_TIME', '10', 'Cache Time (in min). If you don't want caching, set it to 0', @configuration_group_id, 200, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array('true', 'false'),');]
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NFM:

Okay...I ran the sql update and got a duplicate entry error.....

1062 Duplicate entry 'RSS_DEFAULT_IMAGE_SIZE' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO zen_configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES (NULL, 'Generate Products Images Size', 'RSS_DEFAULT_IMAGE_SIZE', 'large', 'What image size Generate (extended tag <g:image_link>)', @configuration_group_id, 99, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array('small', 'medium', 'large'),'), (NULL, 'Feed Cache Time', 'RSS_CACHE_TIME', '10', 'Cache Time (in min). If you don't want caching, set it to 0', @configuration_group_id, 200, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array('true', 'false'),');]
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run and I mean paste the contents of install.sql into admin-tools-install sql patches and run that and tell me what you get.

backup your database first!

I didn't get any errors running that....which is odd since I had 2.1.3 installed previously.

NFM:

I didn't get any errors running that....which is odd since I had 2.1.3 installed previously.

That's what I thought, now everything should work great, just clean out your cache directory of rss_feed_a7f7f77f files if you have any, and your all set.

BTW...the only reason I upgraded was because I wanted to get rid of all the RSS entries in my file manager up on the server. Did you delete yours after this install or did they just go away?....cause mine are still there.

Looks like you answered my question as I posted.