RSS2 Feed Contribution

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.

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).

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

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

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.

A link to your site would be better to fix.

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).

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.

paulm:

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

yellow1912:

A link to your site would be better to fix.

Sorry, try http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/diveshop/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=featured

I would suggest you try something like img a {text-decoration:none} since this has to do with the img acting as a link.

So am I to assume that this new contrib works correctly? With the conversation moving to side boxes and such, I have to ask.

I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $

...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???

:-)

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?

Jason

StoryBook:

So am I to assume that this new contrib works correctly? With the conversation moving to side boxes and such, I have to ask.

I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $

...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???

:-)

Maybe. I'm not sure.

If the version you are using has people subscuibed to your feeds and this version uses different links to invoke the feeds, then you might have to consider the implications of changing to it as it might disturb the subscriptions those people have. But I'm not sure if this is the case or not. Other should be able to help you with that one.

I'm getting "Feed code error" when I try and view certain feeds. I have no idea as to whether this is a problem with my setup/configuration, or bugs in the module.

As examples, the following feeds produce "Feed code errors" for me...

http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/diveshop/index.php?main_page=rss_feed

http://www.scubadoctor.com.au/diveshop/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products

I can view the page source, and see what has been generated. But the error means nothing is displayed.

Also, I get no link to a feed on my shop's home page, or some other pages like privacy, my account etc. I don't know if that's the way it's supposed to be, if it's a problem with my setup/configuration, or a bug. I would have thought that there would be a "default" site feed that such pages would display. But maybe that's not the case as yet.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

yellow1912:

I would suggest you try something like img a {text-decoration:none} since this has to do with the img acting as a link.

That didn't work.

Neither did...

item>description a img {
 margin: 0px 8px 8px 0px;
 border-width: 0px;
 border-color: #ffffff;
 text-decoration: none;
 }

Maybe I'm not targeting it properly?
Or, maybe IE7 just overides what's specified anyway?

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

brimsjewelry:

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?
Jason
Andrew would verify.. but maybe possible to view source via browser,
copy, and convert to xml file, which Google Base accepts.

brimsjewelry:

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?
This is RSS Feed, not a google base feed!

StoryBook:

I using an older rss.php feed:
$Id: rss2.php,v 1.1.0.2 2004/11/02 08:38:10 maurycy Exp $

...and I don't want to disturb anything until the new contrib is given an "A-OK" from the community.

Are we there yet???
No. Don't use this version.

brimsjewelry:

Can someone tell me how to use this as a google base feed?

The format and content of a GoogleBase feed differs from the RSS2 specification. For more info you might want to search on "Google namespace" and/or "gdata".

But yes it would be cool if an "umbrella" ZC module could be developed, which supports "plug-ins" for different feed support (RSS, Google, yahoo, WLS, etc). And also allow mapping of ZC fields to specific feed attributes including mapping a string of of multiple ZC data fields to a specific feed attribute. For example integrate ZC standard and custom product data (e.g. price, ISBN, etc) into RSS2 item description attribute. And support generation of feeds with additional and/or custom attributes. But this wishlist is way off-topic for this thread. ;-)

Woody

Hey Andrew-

Glad you are back!!!!! :clap:

Woody

lloyd_borrett:

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.

Hi mate,

Did you manage to get this on the homepage? I'd like to have it in the header near the search bar. Got everything else working.

Although since i installed this a few hours ago, I've seen 2 orders not show up. Can't see how it would cause this problem, will look into it further.

Great contribution Andrew!

a_berezin:

No. Don't use this version.

Thanks Andrew, for responding so quickly!

Can you tell me what to watch for as to having this all fixed up and ready to go?

Thanks again,
SB