RSS2 Feed Contribution

What do you put for "RSS Image"? A full URL to an image or ?. That's what I have in there now but in 2 readers, no image shows up besides the product images.

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for your works of Rss 2.0.3

It is nice .

But can you or some one help me with the problem that How i can enable the price and attribution of the products in RSS.

I do Enable the price in Admin-> configuration-> Rss Feed-> Generate product price to Ture.

But it seems dont work for me. No price is shown in RSS reader.

And also the Buy it Button doesnt show either.

I have little knowledge about RSS. Hope someone explain for me how to enable the price .etc.

Thanks

Adam

Hello all,

Very new to RSS so please bear with me. I have downloaded the RSS contrib for possible use. I need someone on here to tell me something really simple and in simple language.

What uses can I put the the RSS contrib to, within my website.

I am looking to set up a Zencart site, with many products for sale. I am currently experimenting with Easy Populate (enough said for now, but it is not going well) and considered I should look at other possible solutions.

For example, is it possible to use RSS to receive an XML Live Feed from my supplier to my website? What else can I do with it?

I am very new to RSS and would appreciate some very simple answers to my simple questions.

Best wishes,

Freshstart :frusty:

Hello misty,

can you give me any tips?

Thanks so much .

Adam

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.

How to do that, I really new to RSS. But very interested in Your Mod.
Could you show me a smaple . How to make Price or attributor out from the Reader. Coz, i can not get them listed in the reader. But you have the function in your mod. Maybe i am just too folish to figure it out. Andrew, or anybody show me the tips? Thanks...

Report the uncompitable bugs of this mod.

The Add to card in RSS reader seems not work with Ultimate SEO mod .

Once you click the add to card button. it shows

404 Error - Not Found
The resource you have requested could not be found on the server. There are many possible reasons for this. Either the file does not exist, there is an error in your request, or the file is not accessible in the requested directory. Please verify that:

You have used the proper case; requests ARE case-sensitive!
You have entered the URL correctly. (i.e. proper directory/filename)
You used the FULL URL. (i.e. proper file type: .html, .gif , .jpg, etc.)
You use a tilde (~) before user directories. (i.e. https://www.furcen.org/~jurann/ )
The user/file still exists on this server.

Still no ideas about how to let the price show in Rss Reader.
:(

Fortunately, My little IQ is not bad. Just figure it out how to make the price ,attribution, etc to the RSS Reader, Now it should be a very wonderful tools. THanks Andrew. I guess you are so busy arround.

But Andrew, How to make the Your RSS mod to be compatible with ultimate_seo_urls_2.105. I mean the BUY NOW BUTTON doest work as i descripted in #66.

What is the "permerlink" mean in code" array('url' => $link, 'PermaLink' => true)"??

Kind Wait.

Ok, forget about all the above problem. After 5 hours studying, I can make all of the above problem solved.. Thanks God

Hi Andrew-

I previously had RSS feed working for the older "News Manager" mod in ZC 1.27. But when migrated to ZC 1.3x the News Manager mod did not come with, as I chose to utilize built-in ez-pages instead.

Does your RSS mod have built-in support to create an RSS feed for ez-pages? Or does ez-pages already have built-in RSS support? I've searched and cannot locate any specifics on this.

I just made a relevant post to http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=444712

In that thread 'Studeo' has suggested some possible method/code to support a RSS feed for ez-pages.

I see your mod supports the 'News & Articles Mgmt' mod. Does your RSS mod support the "Infopages" mod (as used in Zen Cart 1.2x)? I ask since "ez-pages" which is built into Zen Cart 1.3x is based on the"Infopages" mod.

Thanks for any ideas.

Woody

Hi Woody,

Woodymon:

But when migrated to ZC 1.3x the News Manager mod did not come with
News Manager work in 1.3.7.
Woodymon:

Does your RSS mod have built-in support to create an RSS feed for ez-pages?
Of course not. Standart ez-pages so EZ (easy), that don't support creation/modification date, multi-language, seo and so on. So I feel foolish and wrong to create rss-channels for ez-pages.
You are not going to create rss-channels for other information pages: Shipping & Returns, Privacy Notice, Conditions of Use, Gift Certificate FAQ and greate Page 2 Page 3, Page 4.
rss is not a panacea.

Woodymon:

I just made a relevant post to http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=444712
In that thread 'Studeo' has suggested some possible method/code to support a RSS feed for ez-pages.
No comments.

Woodymon:

I see your mod supports the 'News & Articles Mgmt' mod.
Yes, because it is the news system.

Woodymon:

Does your RSS mod support the "Infopages" mod (as used in Zen Cart 1.2x)?
Of course not!!! I already forgot what is zen-1.2.

Woodymon:

I ask since "ez-pages" which is built into Zen Cart 1.3x is based on the"Infopages" mod.
How it correlated?????

P.S. I developed ez-pages to normal levels adding multilanguage, date of creation/modification and seo-suppot (title, keywords, description). This "x-pages" supported by RSS Feed, but not this version. I can add rss fo stadart ez-pages, but I do not think that this should be done. Prove to me that I am wrong.

Andrew and all,

Here is something I have noticed with this contribution....I don't know if it's a bug or a simple configuration setting.

PROBLEM: When you go to the RSS link for NEW PRODUCTS, it is not taking you to the new products which were added into our store. It appears that it's taking you to a list of the latest products PURCHASED in our store.

RSS LINK: http://www.mjmmagic.com/store/rss_feed.html?feed=new_products

For example, if you were to purchase something from us, and then go to that link above, your items would be listed at the time, even though you may have purchased something that was added into our store years ago.

Any idea why that may be happening?

Could someone help me with a few problems?

1). When I view the feed for All Products I get the following error:

My feed reader reports no feed present.

IE7 gives the following error:

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed because it uses an unsupported communication Protocol.

This was working fine until my catalog hit about 700 products. I know this is a timeout issue but how would I change the timeout so that I can set the default products limit to include every product in my store (which will eventually be over 4000). Is it something to do with max_execution_time in the apache settings?
I relalise this is not very practical for buyers but I really need the All Products feed to show everything.

2). The Buy Now button is there but doesn't link to anything (just an image).

3). No prices are shown in the feeds.

Apart from these very fixable (I hope) issues, this is a fantastic add-on.

Many thanks go to Andrew

adam9110:

Ok, forget about all the above problem. After 5 hours studying, I can make all of the above problem solved.. Thanks God
Care to share your solutions with the rest of us?

First of all I would like to say thank you to Andrew for the great contribution. RSS is certainly a very important part of e-commerce.

I have managed to install the contribution and it is working somewhat. I have one strange bug to report, if in fact it is a bug at all, as it may just my settings.

I have set up the default feeds as "New Products" and I am generating a feed for some, but not all of the new products. Products will only appear on the feed if I: a) update the number of products on an existing listing; or b) the product is duplicated, then modified from an existing listing. If I input a new listing from scratch, it does not appear in the feed.

I hope this makes sense.

Sorry. Strike the above comment. It has started displaying all the New Products now. I changed the "Default Products Limit" from the default 100 to a blank.

Again thanks you to everyone working on improving this mod.

hillbilliz,
PM me link to your shop.

Updated - v 2.0.4_18.10.2007

THis mod was working fine until I installed the new version. Now I get this error:

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100' at line 12
in:
[SELECT p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_image, GREATEST(p.products_date_added, IFNULL(p.products_last_modified, 0)) AS products_date, p.master_categories_id, p.products_price_sorter AS price, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_weight, p.manufacturers_id, m.manufacturers_name, r.reviews_rating FROM ABCproducts p LEFT JOIN ABCproducts_description pd ON (p.products_id = pd.products_id) LEFT JOIN ABCmanufacturers m ON (p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id) LEFT JOIN ABCreviews r ON (p.products_id = r.products_id) WHERE pd.language_id = 1 AND p.products_status = 1 AND p.master_categories_id = 22 AND p.products_id=10414 order by p.products_last_modified DESC p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100]

Help!

Jason

brimsjewelry:

THis mod was working fine until I installed the new version. Now I get this error:

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100' at line 12
in:
[SELECT p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_image, GREATEST(p.products_date_added, IFNULL(p.products_last_modified, 0)) AS products_date, p.master_categories_id, p.products_price_sorter AS price, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_weight, p.manufacturers_id, m.manufacturers_name, r.reviews_rating FROM ABCproducts p LEFT JOIN ABCproducts_description pd ON (p.products_id = pd.products_id) LEFT JOIN ABCmanufacturers m ON (p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id) LEFT JOIN ABCreviews r ON (p.products_id = r.products_id) WHERE pd.language_id = 1 AND p.products_status = 1 AND p.master_categories_id = 22 AND p.products_id=10414 order by p.products_last_modified DESC p.products_sort_order LIMIT 100]

Help!

Jason
Same result as Jason, when installing v 2.0.4_18.10.2007