rss-news feed

[dragonfoundry]

rss-news feed ( From the contributions section )

 

So far as i can see this pulls the product name, price and product picture from the database. Is there any way that it can also pull the category name the product falls under as well?

 

Ideally it needs to be

 

Category

Product Name

Price

Image

 

 

 

:unsure:

[Rob123]

The contribution that you linked to creates RSS .91 files.

RSS feeds prior to RSS 2.0 have a very strict syntax which you can not modify.

RSS 2.0 allows "extensibility" so you can use elements that aren't in the specs

 

Long story short....too late :-"

 

You can add as many fields as you want but you may not get the desired results if your "news reader" can not support the new (extended) fields.

 

May I ask why you want to create a RSS feed and what "news reader" you are using?

 

I have my own (beta) RSS .92 feed on my site for my affiliates. However, none of them seem to want to use it.

 

Robert

Edited February 4, 2005 by Rob123

[dragonfoundry]

Thanks for the reply. Its an idea i have bounding in my head. I currently use thunderbird mail and firefox http://www.mozilla.org as a means of receiving RSS feeds for a number of different things and a lot of sites are now using RSS feeds including some shopping sites. I have heard that the next generation of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express will also incorporate the ability to receive RSS feeds.

 

So the theory is if a customer subscribes to a RSS feed when they collect their email they also receive the RSS feed informing them of new products or special offers or perhaps up and coming products without actually having to visit the site. Thus they are staying in touch with developments with very little effort.

 

It also provides potential customers with the ability to subscribe without formally joining the site.

 

A newsletter is fine but you cant email one everytime a new product is made available since it becomes a form of unintentional spam which wont go down very well with the customer. To infrequent and the customer will manually have to visit the site to ensure they dont miss anything new which might be of interest which is unlikely to happen since they have better things to do than keep looking for updates.

 

RSS provides a clean and easy way for the customer been kept informed of new products etc but also for those people who are interested in the site but dont want to register until they are ready to buy.

 

Cant see why your affilates are not interested i think RSS has potential.

 

Anyway it was just an idea.

[Rob123]

Oh RSS works... however, you might have to be a little creative.

If you are using Firefox, please add http://www.pawstoshop.com/rss.php to your live bookmarks.

 

Another way to add it to your firefox live bookmarks is to visit http://www.pawstoshop.com and click the little orange icon on the bottom right.

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

To answer your question, I think that my affiliates are simply happy using Microsoft Frontpage to manually link to using a banner.

 

Robert

[Guest]

Oh RSS works... however, you might have to be a little creative.

If you are using Firefox, please add http://www.pawstoshop.com/rss.php to your live bookmarks.

 

Another way to add it to your firefox live bookmarks is to visit http://www.pawstoshop.com and click the little orange icon on the bottom right.

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

To answer your question, I think that my affiliates are simply happy using Microsoft Frontpage to manually link to using a banner.

 

Robert

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is there a contribution that adds this orange icon to the corner of firefox? Or does it automatically detect RSS feeds from sites??

 

you also mentioned affiliates... can this feed also be included into the OSC affiliate contrib in some way?

[Rob123]

is there a contribution that adds this orange icon to the corner of firefox? Or does it automatically detect RSS feeds from sites??

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In order to get Firefox to display the icon you need to add an alternate link similar to linking to a stylesheet.

View the souce of my homepage and you'll see...

...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.pawstoshop.com/rss.php?ref=3" title="PawsToShop Daily Specials">
...

 

you also mentioned affiliates... can this feed also be included into the OSC affiliate contrib in some way?

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Yes, since the RSS file is really a dynamic php file, it can change the links to reflect any affiliate (it uses a passed variable of any affiliate number).

http://www.pawstoshop.com/rss.php?ref=1

or

http://www.pawstoshop.com/rss.php?ref=123456

 

I default it to a affiliate 3 if no variable is explicitly passed.

 

I offered my code to the authors of the osC Affiliate contribution. I guess they were not interested.

 

Robert