RSS2 Feed Contribution

nigelt74:

Ok I have installed it on 1.3.9g and it seems to work fine for me

I did have to do a bit of Hacking to get the prices to appear in my browser,
I see a few people asking about this, so if you are interested I'll post my changed file, all i did was add the price to the description field in the header file

Yes, please post.

Zen Cart 1.3.9h
semi-fresh install (store rebuilt; was zen cart, then wordpress, now zen again)

Installed addons are:
Apsona Shop Manager
Checkout By Amazon
Enhanced Who's Online
Auto Tweet
ZC Backup

http://f a n c y g i f t w r a p.com

Attempted to install Simple SEO Url's but it didn't work. Ran uninstall sql but still appears in Admin>Config; can't find any remnant files anywhere.

ANYWAY....

Attempted to install RSS_Feed but got this error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products
Line Number 6, Column 38:<meta name="keywords" content="Baby & Bridal Showers Bases & Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels & Cards Merchandise & Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper & Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons & Bows Shreds & Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties & Tags Variety & Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping " />
-------------------------------------^

I've read this forum TWICE; checked my files, etc. 3-4 times now and can't resolve this. The only keywords I entered myself are "cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping." Where is it being told to use my CATEGORY names as keywords?

Where is the file to fix for this? Line Number 6, Column 38 of what?? And that dashed line ------^ where is it getting that from? Oy....

Really need to get this going...so I could use some fresh eyes on the problem. :blink: Been at this one site for almost a week now and I'm behind schedule on others. :dontgetit Help?

sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Zen Cart 1.3.9h
semi-fresh install (store rebuilt; was zen cart, then wordpress, now zen again)

Installed addons are:
Apsona Shop Manager
Checkout By Amazon
Enhanced Who's Online
Auto Tweet
ZC Backup

http://f a n c y g i f t w r a p.com

Attempted to install Simple SEO Url's but it didn't work. Ran uninstall sql but still appears in Admin>Config; can't find any remnant files anywhere.

ANYWAY....

Attempted to install RSS_Feed but got this error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products
Line Number 6, Column 38:<meta name="keywords" content="Baby & Bridal Showers Bases & Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels & Cards Merchandise & Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper & Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons & Bows Shreds & Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties & Tags Variety & Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping " />
-------------------------------------^

I've read this forum TWICE; checked my files, etc. 3-4 times now and can't resolve this. The only keywords I entered myself are "cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping." Where is it being told to use my CATEGORY names as keywords?

Where is the file to fix for this? Line Number 6, Column 38 of what?? And that dashed line ------^ where is it getting that from? Oy....

Really need to get this going...so I could use some fresh eyes on the problem. :blink: Been at this one site for almost a week now and I'm behind schedule on others. :dontgetit Help?

sylvia
Check for extra white spaces. I do not know which of your files contain the error? Look through them and Replace the files ending
?>
by
// EOF

I have a script that Andrew gave me if your interested. The link is here.
Download it and run it to check for extra white spaces. Down load it and extract it, and up-load it to your server, run the script like this. http://www your.com/found_extra_space.php to check for white spaces of all you file on your site.

Thanks so much for the response! I hope we can find it ~ I NEED that feed! :dontgetit

Uhm...can we try that link again? I got a page not found. GAHHHH or it is me the internet hates today? LOL

:shocking:

Thanks again,
sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Thanks so much for the response! I hope we can find it ~ I NEED that feed! :dontgetit

Uhm...can we try that link again? I got a page not found. GAHHHH or it is me the internet hates today? LOL

:shocking:

Thanks again,
sylvia

countrycharm:

Check for extra white spaces. I do not know which of your files contain the error? Look through them and Replace the files ending
?>
by
// EOF

I have a script that Andrew gave me if your interested. The link is here.
Download it and run it to check for extra white spaces. Down load it and extract it, and up-load it to your server, run the script like this. http://www your.com/found_extra_space.php to check for white spaces of all you file on your site.

Sorry about that. You can download it from here.

Alas, no joy. There were 11 files with extra space @ the bottom; fixed all, but feed still spits the same error message.

:(

Forgot about the Module Manager. Still have that addon installed too--forgot to list it above, but I'll dump it soon. Still loading product to the cart. zzzzzzzz

Hopefully, Andrew will pop in soon and put his expert eye on this thing too.

Thanks so much for helping. Holla if you think of anything else! I appreciate the time you took to try!

sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Alas, no joy. There were 11 files with extra space @ the bottom; fixed all, but feed still spits the same error message.

:(

Forgot about the Module Manager. Still have that addon installed too--forgot to list it above, but I'll dump it soon. Still loading product to the cart. zzzzzzzz

Hopefully, Andrew will pop in soon and put his expert eye on this thing too.

Thanks so much for helping. Holla if you think of anything else! I appreciate the time you took to try!

sylvia

what happens if you change the category name from

Baby & Bridal Showers

to Baby and Bridal Showers

(just try it and see if it moves the error along a bit, as & should be converted to & for xml, I think?)

nigelt74:

what happens if you change the category name from

Baby & Bridal Showers

to Baby and Bridal Showers

(just try it and see if it moves the error along a bit, as & should be converted to & for xml, I think?)

I went to your site and I agree with nigelt74.

Brilliant! That never occurred to me! lol I did a couple at a time and refreshed the error page. Hilarious...it 'walked' across the screen.

And now we have a new message: :frusty:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products
Line Number 24, Column 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

^

At least now I/we know it's tracking along and responds to my action. If only I knew enough to figure out where it's getting the data from.

I'm still looking for it...the end product (the feed) is beautifully done and worth it. I'll have to look back at one of countrycharm's posts too as I only want a couple of feeds.

Thanks guyz...keep pondering! I'm so grateful for the clues and your help!

sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Brilliant! That never occurred to me! lol I did a couple at a time and refreshed the error page. Hilarious...it 'walked' across the screen.

And now we have a new message: :frusty:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products
Line Number 24, Column 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

^

At least now I/we know it's tracking along and responds to my action. If only I knew enough to figure out where it's getting the data from.

I'm still looking for it...the end product (the feed) is beautifully done and worth it. I'll have to look back at one of countrycharm's posts too as I only want a couple of feeds.

Thanks guyz...keep pondering! I'm so grateful for the clues and your help!

sylvia

what have you altered from the default as the xml should be the first line NOT the 24th

when i look at your page via opera i see the following

21: <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_easySlider.js"></script>
22: <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_jquery.js"></script>
23: </head>
24: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Have you hacked the RSS file trying to add your template and theme?

If so remove it and return it to the original condition, this is meant to be seen in a feed reader not in a browser, so adding the html stuff kills it

edit----------------------------------
Yep looking at the source of your file, the head section of your site is being included at the top of the rss file, that will definitely kill it.

nigelt74,

could you respond to my question in post #821, Thanks!

what have you altered from the default as the xml should be the first line NOT the 24th

when i look at your page via opera i see the following

Quote:
 	 		 			 				 21: <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_easySlider.js"></script>

22: <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_jquery.js"></script>
23: </head>
24: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Have you hacked the RSS file trying to add your template and theme?

If so remove it and return it to the original condition, this is meant to be seen in a feed reader not in a browser, so adding the html stuff kills it

I most certainly have NOT hacked the RSS file NOR my template to try to combine them.

The RSS feed DID work on this site a few days ago, before I tried to install SEO url mods...I should have known better; none of those appear to work.

I also had a Static Rss Feed Sidebox that I was thinking could be conflicting and so, I just removed it.

In FIREFOX, this is what I see for source:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en"> <head> <title>Fancy Gift Wrap!, Cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, ribbon, bows, shred</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Baby and Bridal Showers Bases and Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels and Cards Merchandise and Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper and Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons and Bows Shreds and Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties and Tags Variety and Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping " /> <meta name="description" content="Fancy Gift Wrap! : - Baby and Bridal Showers Bases and Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels and Cards Merchandise and Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper and Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons and Bows Shreds and Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties and Tags Variety and Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart™ Team and others" /> <meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart™, <http://www.zen-cart.com> eCommerce" /> <base href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/" /> <link rel="canonical" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_betterCategoriesEzInfo.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_css_buttons.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_dotline.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_footer_menu.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/print_stylesheet.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_easySlider.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_jquery.js"></script> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Specials Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=specials" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS New Products Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=new_products" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Upcoming Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=upcoming" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Featured Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=featured" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Best Sellers Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=best_sellers" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS All Products Feed" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products" /> </head> <body id="indexHomeBody"> <div id="mainWrapper">

Line 24 is a BLANK line; Line 25 is the RSS Specials (first line) of the feed.

In IE, Line 24 is the RSS Specials line. By the way, when I try to subscribe to the feeds in IE, I get this error:

Internet Explorer does not support feeds with DTDs.

So, does this feed contain a DTD (Document Type Definition)? DTDs are used to define a structure of a webpage. Internet Explorer does not support DTDs in feeds.

So where does that leave my problem? :shocking:

:(
sylvia

mstng67:

nigelt74,

could you respond to my question in post #821, Thanks!

I'll try to get that done tomorrow

nigelt74:

I'll try to get that done tomorrow

Thanks!

boutiqueshops:

I most certainly have NOT hacked the RSS file NOR my template to try to combine them.

The RSS feed DID work on this site a few days ago, before I tried to install SEO url mods...I should have known better; none of those appear to work.

I also had a Static Rss Feed Sidebox that I was thinking could be conflicting and so, I just removed it.

this is what i see in opera browser

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Fancy Gift Wrap!, Cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, ribbon, bows, shred</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Baby and Bridal Showers Bases and Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels and Cards Merchandise and Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper and Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons and Bows Shreds and Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties and Tags Variety and Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping " />
<meta name="description" content="Fancy Gift Wrap! :  - Baby and Bridal Showers Bases and Assorted Boxes Cello Bags, Clear Cello Bags, Printed Cello Bags, Special Value Cello Wrap Sets Creative Crafting Gift Basket Supplies Holiday Labels and Cards Merchandise and Retail Bags Organza Bags Paper and Plastic Wrap Project Packs Ribbons and Bows Shreds and Tissue Shrink Wrap Twist Ties and Tags Variety and Surprise Sets Wrap Education cellophane gift bags, gift basket supplies, bridal, baby, shower, favor bags, ribbon, bows, shred, online shopping" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart™ Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart™, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

<base href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_betterCategoriesEzInfo.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_css_buttons.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_dotline.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/stylesheet_footer_menu.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/print_stylesheet.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_easySlider.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/ashley_pink/jscript/jscript_jquery.js"></script>
</head>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://fancygiftwrap.com/includes/templates/ashley_pink/css/rss.css" media="screen"?>
<!-- generator="Zen-Cart RSS Feed/"v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26 -->
<rss version="2.0" 

as you can see line 24 is where the rss file starts, everything before it shouldn't be there.

you don't perchance have some leftover rewrite rule in your .htaccess file from the seo things?

Good morning! Sorry I pooped out last night (this early morning). I'd been working on this site for almost 2 days straight. :blink:

Nigel, I did find a leftover SSU .htaccess file in the root directory, which I have now replaced. Some of these uninstalls are not "clean" uninstalls, are they?

As far as the order of things, I went to this link:

http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/index.php?main_page=index&template_switch_id=ashley_pink

which is the demo of the template I'm using. The source for that is the same as mine except for the canonical link reference. Now after that section is a whole other story. omg....

I'm going to finish my coffee and probably drink another pot.

Any insights?

sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Good morning! Sorry I pooped out last night (this early morning). I'd been working on this site for almost 2 days straight. :blink:

Nigel, I did find a leftover SSU .htaccess file in the root directory, which I have now replaced. Some of these uninstalls are not "clean" uninstalls, are they?

As far as the order of things, I went to this link:

http://www.picaflor-azul.com/free-demos/index.php?main_page=index&template_switch_id=ashley_pink

which is the demo of the template I'm using. The source for that is the same as mine except for the canonical link reference. Now after that section is a whole other story. omg....

I'm going to finish my coffee and probably drink another pot.

Any insights?

sylvia

Check your admin and see if gzip compression is turn on if it is turn it off and see if that has any effect.

Good morning, countrycharm!

gzip was on...now it's off. Interesting...a page full of data, some of which I had selected NOT to appear in the RSS feed (like price), and some of it repeated twice.

:huh:

sylvia

boutiqueshops:

Good morning, countrycharm!

gzip was on...now it's off. Interesting...a page full of data, some of which I had selected NOT to appear in the RSS feed (like price), and some of it repeated twice.

:huh:

sylvia

Good Morning to you.
You can click the Rss Feed button at the bottom of the page with chrome, and IE8 to see whats going on. I see pictures and a lot more. Something is not quite installed right. Go back and re-check each file to see if they are in there correct location and check manually to make sure there is no extra lines and spaces in the language and other additional files.