RSS Feed contribution support thread

djdeuce · June 16, 2009

For anyone else having the same problem here is the fix.

Find:

// Enter your main shopping cart link

define(WEBLINK, HTTP_SERVER);

Change To:

define(WEBLINK, 'http://www.yourdomain/catalog/enter any folder here')

Example (what I chose that fixed mine):

define(WEBLINK, 'http://www.shedsforlessdirect.com/products/rss.php');

NolaMan · June 16, 2009

Hi,

I installed faaliyet's RSS Feed v2.2 on my site a few months ago and everything worked fine. But I noticed today that the RSS for individual categories no longer works (in Firefox 3 or IE 7...but does work in Safari 4). The main Catalog RSS still works fine (with all browsers).

With the categories rss it shows the title and description, but no logo, or any products. When I do a view source it shows the code is there.

I did a validation for the feed at beta.feedvalidator.org

and got the following error:

line 12, column 68: XML parsing error: <unknown>:12:68: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]

<atom:link href="http://www.foryoursalon.com/rss.php?language=&cPath=25" rel ...

^

Also in IE 7 I get:

More information

A semi colon character was expected.

Line: 12 Character: 69

<atom:link href="http://www.foryoursalon.com/rss.php?language=&cPath=25" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

I've check all over the code in rss.php to find a missing ; but cannot find it. Also, checked the forum at applied the fix for (invalid token) but that didn't work.

As I said, all worked a few months ago, but not now. I'm running PHP version 5.2.9.

Here is my site:

http://www.foryoursalon.com/

Also, I f I could get some help adding prices to the feed, again folowed what was on the forum, but did not work. Since there is buy now graphic link in the feed it doesn't make sense without a price.

Please help!

Thanks!

- Ken

Edited June 16, 2009 by NolaMan

skay2rogue · June 24, 2009

Prompt please, what you want to paste the code in the rss.php, that would be news to appear along with the pictures, if they exist?

p3ssi0n · June 25, 2009

will this work with http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,5080 and produce seo url in my feeds ?

Thanks

garnet · July 6, 2009

Hi all

I have a problem with cyrillic language in the rss fee,

please take a look

http://www.kupuvalnik.com/rss.php?language=bg

how can i make it look ok?

addicted · July 7, 2009

Hello

Anyone succeed to remove first empy line

#

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?>

line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity

I have double check - no empty spaces in files, STS is set correct, after first row everything is OK

Thank You

garnet · July 7, 2009

Hi all

Just a quick question

why my date of the rss feed is in 1979. See below

http://beta.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?ur...3Flanguage%3Dbg

How can I fix this?

Thanks.

sanbikes · July 14, 2009

I'm friends with a problem, install the feeds, but the categories are appearing duplicated.

What may be happening?

see the link

http://www.cardsdigers.com/loja/bbrasil-te...os-c-22_62.html

sanbikes · July 14, 2009

I'm friends with a problem, install the feeds, but the categories are appearing duplicated.

What may be happening?

see the link

http://www.cardsdigers.com/loja/bbrasil-te...os-c-22_62.html

zozzoozzz · July 28, 2009

Thanks for this useful Add-On.

Here I have a question that I hope u can help me :

How to locate the RSS icon to the place where I want?

For example, If I want to place the RSS icon to the Header aera of the NEW PRODUCTS FOR MONTH box in the mainpage, How can I do that?

Thanks

Kind Regards

JUN

NolaMan · August 2, 2009

Just added.....

Contribution found here: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1513

RSS Feed v2.2a - Add Manufacturer, Model #, Price + More to Feed

See it in action here: http://www.foryoursalon.com/rss.php?language=en Catalog RSS Feed

http://www.foryoursalon.com website

This is an update for RSS Feed v2.2 by faaliyet (23- Mar- 2009).

You must download and install RSS Feed v2.2 first.

This is not full package.

Only contains manual install Instructions and rss.php file.

v2.2a Changes:

--------------------------

-Added Manufacturer, Model # and Price to feed items (you can use all, or comment out the ones you don't want).

- Based on how Newegg.com feeds look.

- Price will display either regular price or special price (if it is on special).

- Currently all is hard-coded in rss.php file so no external "defines". You can change that if you want

but I felt unnecessary at this time .

- Also, Prices: Sorry, since my my store is only in dollars I have not included code for multi-currency stores. (hard-coded)

-Added Screenshot to see what it will look like.

-Added <copyright> </copyright> channel element (to of course display your copyright info).

-Added <width> </width><height></height> channel elements so as to make the store logo a clickable link to website

-Updated: Commented out <atom:link href....... rel="self"> tag because it was (again causing problems with the rss feed renderings in IE and Firefox [at least for me]).

Included in install file is an explaination and possible temporary fix. But, this is not really needed (do a Google search on "Missing atom:link with rel="self"

and see what I mean. http://beta.feedvalidator.org/ Feed Validator only suggests as "Recommendation" and removal doesn't invalidate feed anyway.

This tag was working for me a few months ago, but not anymore maybe related to php upgrade to PHP version 5.2.9 on my server - YMMV.

Issues Un-Resolved (since v2.2):

---------------------------------------

- atom:link href as listed above.

- still a problem with and ereg tags in the descriptions

- Top Category feeds not displaying when Top category has sub-categories (sub-categories show fine).

Example:

Category 1 ===> displays fine

Category 2 ===> DOESN'T DISPLAY

L Sub-Category 1 ===> displays fine

L Sub-Category 2 ===> displays fine

Category 3 ===> displays fine

NOTE: Not full package, replacement rss.php included to use if you haven't already modified the original.

ALSO: Finnished working on RSS feed for Specials and Featured Products (I'll upload soon)

Thanx to faaliyet for all his work on this contribution!

zozzoozzz · August 4, 2009

I have installed the useful ADD-ON but here have some problems :

1.MY store can be viewed by FIREFOX correctly and not by IE and google chrome when I click the rss feed icon.

2.Top Category feeds not displaying when Top category has sub-categories (sub-categories show fine).

Example:

Category 1 ===> displays fine

Category 2 ===> DOESN'T DISPLAY

L Sub-Category 1 ===> displays fine

L Sub-Category 2 ===> displays fine

Category 3 ===> displays fine

anybody can help?

thanks

♥DAVID3733 · August 14, 2009

I have a general question

I have RSS installed now, think its a great contribution, not really familiar about the way it should be used, i intend to submit it to various places and not sure how many i should have in the feed.

I have over 10,000 products but should i have only 20/30 in the RSS with regular updates (which is very quite often) or all of my products ?

any help would be appreciated

Thank you

NolaMan · August 18, 2009

I have a general question

I have RSS installed now, think its a great contribution, not really familiar about the way it should be used, i intend to submit it to various places and not sure how many i should have in the feed.

I have over 10,000 products but should i have only 20/30 in the RSS with regular updates (which is very quite often) or all of my products ?

any help would be appreciated

Thank you

10,000 products would be WAY too much! Just think how long it would take the feed to load, besides no one is going to go through a feed with 10,000 products in it. Think of an RSS feed as "The Latest News" about what's on your site. I our case the News relates to the latest products added. The way this RSS feed contribution is set up is to show the latest Products added, on Index page it will show the latest (XX amount) products added (All), then in each catagory and manufaturers page it will show the latest (XX amount) products added for each category or manufacturers page. All based on what amount you set in admin.

Starting with 20 or 30 is the right move, especially if you add new products often. Take a look around other popular ecommerce sites with feeds and see what number they display. Usually between 20- 50 items per feed is normal. I wouldn't go above 50.

The only exception would be for a Specials feed or Featured products feed (which I am working on) since you want to show all those items "on Special" or "featured" and no be limited to what you set in admin.

-Nolaman

Edited August 18, 2009 by NolaMan

Xpajun · August 21, 2009

The only major problem I'm getting at the moment is that rss.php is not converting code from the database so á stays as á and not á so all my Cyrillic script turns out as &****;&****; and so on

Does anyone have an idea on a cure?

Xpajun · August 22, 2009

I've found the cause - it's all the following coding:

lines 54 - 113

function replace_problem_characters($text) {
$formattags = array("&"); 	
$replacevals = array("&");
$text = str_replace($formattags, $replacevals, $text);
//$in[] = '@&(amp|#038);@i'; $out[] = '&';
$in[] = '@&(#036);@i'; $out[] = '$';
$in[] = '@&(quot);@i'; $out[] = '"';
$in[] = '@&(#039);@i'; $out[] = '\'';
$in[] = '@&(nbsp|#160);@i'; $out[] = ' ';
$in[] = '@&(hellip|#8230);@i'; $out[] = '...';
$in[] = '@&(copy|#169);@i'; $out[] = '(c)';
$in[] = '@&(trade|#129);@i'; $out[] = '(tm)';
$in[] = '@&(lt|#60);@i'; $out[] = '<';
$in[] = '@&(gt|#62);@i'; $out[] = '>';
$in[] = '@&(laquo);@i'; $out[] = '´';
$in[] = '@&(raquo);@i'; $out[] = 'ª';
$in[] = '@&(deg);@i'; $out[] = '∞';
$in[] = '@&(mdash);@i'; $out[] = 'ó';
$in[] = '@&(reg);@i'; $out[] = 'Æ';
$in[] = '@&(ñ);@i'; $out[] = '-';
$text = preg_replace($in, $out, $text);
return $text;
}

function strip_html_tags($str) {
// $document should contain an HTML document.
// This will remove HTML tags, javascript sections
// and white space. It will also convert some
// common HTML entities to their text equivalent.

$search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",  // Strip out javascript
				 "'<[/!]*?[^<>]*?>'si",		  // Strip out HTML tags
				 //"'([rn])[s]+'",				// Strip out white space
				 "'&(quot|#34);'i",				// Replace HTML entities
				 "'&(amp|#38);'i",
				 "'&(lt|#60);'i",
				 "'&(gt|#62);'i",
				 "'&(nbsp|#160);'i",
				 "'&(iexcl|#161);'i",
				 "'&(cent|#162);'i",
				 "'&(pound|#163);'i",
				 "'&(copy|#169);'i",
				 "'(d+);'e");					// evaluate as php

$replace = array ("",
				 "",
				 //"\1",
				 "\"",
				 "&",
				 "<",
				 ">",
				 " ",
				 chr(161),
				 chr(162),
				 chr(163),
				 chr(169),
				 "chr(\1)");

return preg_replace($search, $replace, $str);
}

lines 247 - 252

// Encoding to UTF-8
$store_name =  utf8_encode (replace_problem_characters($store_name));
$rss_title =  utf8_encode (replace_problem_characters($rss_title));
$weblink =  utf8_encode ($weblink);
$description =  utf8_encode (replace_problem_characters($description));
$email_address =  utf8_encode ($email_address);

lines 350 - 353

  $name = utf8_encode(replace_problem_characters($name));
 $desc = utf8_encode(replace_problem_characters($desc));
 $link = utf8_encode($link);

lines 377

  // Encoding to UTF-8
 $cat_name = utf8_encode (replace_problem_characters(strip_html_tags($cat_name)));

lines 396 - 441

  // http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-chardata
 // The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) MUST NOT appear in their literal form
 $name = str_replace('&','&',$name);
 $desc = str_replace('&','&',$desc);
 $link = str_replace('&','&',$link);
 //$cat_name = str_replace('&','&',$cat_name);

 $name = str_replace('<','<',$name);
 $desc = str_replace('<','<',$desc);
 $link = str_replace('<','<',$link);
 $cat_name = str_replace('<','<',$cat_name);

 $name = str_replace('>','>',$name);
 $desc = str_replace('>','>',$desc);
 $link = str_replace('>','>',$link);
 $cat_name = str_replace('>','>',$cat_name);

which amounts to all the 'replace problem characters' script

Questions are:

Why is this script there?

Can it be removed? (yes it works without it)

If the script is really needed is there another solution?

GemRock · August 22, 2009

...If the script is really needed is there another solution?

no.its needed ONLY when it does what it says. when it doesn't then replace problem characters becomes create_problem_characters.

delete or comment all but the last line

return $text;

,

return preg_replace($search, $replace, $str);

becomes

return $str;

Ken

Xpajun · August 23, 2009

Right first of all thank you Ken for that answer but I fear my problem has more depth :(

The fix worked in as much as the languages showed up properly - well the Chinese and the Cyrillic show perfectly with it removed...

but all the western scripts show as blank pages :rolleyes: <EDIT> Thought I'd better define a blank page - it shows the RSS page, including logos and RSS heading, but no context within the box. </EDIT>

The offending code is:

function replace_problem_characters($text) {
$formattags = array("&"); 	
//	$replacevals = array("&");
  $text = str_replace($formattags, $replacevals, $text);
//	$in[] = '@&(amp|#038);@i'; $out[] = '&';

If I edit out $formattags and $text everything would work but the western won't (in fact any language file that has

define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1');

defined except english.php).

I've tried reopening the 'language'.php in UTF-8 but that causes another problem (I think maybe because the script is not UTF-8 compatible?)

So I'm afraid I'm back to asking "any ideas please?"

Edited August 23, 2009 by Xpajun

Xpajun · August 23, 2009

Addition to the above post:

What is actually happening is that the replace problem characters is removing the & and so is destroying special character codes

GemRock · August 23, 2009

rather than spending days figuring out someone else code, a work around may be a better solution:

switch (language_code) {
case "this lang-code":
 do what ever works for this language;
 break;
case "this other lang-code":
 do the other bit that works for that language;
 break;
default:
 ...
}

FF may show page whereby IE may not. IE (v8) needs catching up.

Ken

Edited August 23, 2009 by GemRock

andremen · August 24, 2009

Hi!!

Thanks everyone for make this a great contribution.

Someone is having the same problem of me?

On my rss.php is showing but not the picture, it is broken.

http://www.flooringsupplystore.com/rss.php?language=en

Any ideas?

Xpajun · August 24, 2009

Thanks again for your input Ken - think I may take a hard look at the contribution and get it working as I want (it has a few other problems that need sorting as well).

Won't be starting til the end of the week though when I can access my local test site (cant afford to have the store broken ;) )

Might have to ask a few more questions though if you don't mind

Xpajun · August 24, 2009

Andre,

You are having a browser problem, I don't see your images in FF on a mac yet I see them on Safari but I can't tell you the reason why you might be getting the problem and I don't

zozzoozzz · August 25, 2009

Can anybody tell me how to set the letter-spacing of the Social Bookmark in my store when I have installed the Rssfeed ADD-ON on my store?

thanks

Xpajun · August 25, 2009

I don't have social bookmark so I can't help you - have you tried asking the question here?

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