News module RSS feed do not work in 0.11 ?

[Didier LIROULET]

Hi.

I want to create a RSS feed for news, and i have inserted call to news module in home page of my site like this, as said in docs:

{cms_module module="news" number="10"  makerssbutton="true"}

However, when i try to connect with Thunderbird, it tell me this is not a valid RSS feed.

When i browse the link with Firefox, i only get text format, not XML.

Do i have missed something ?

PS: You can check the site http://cms.dliroulet.pointclark.net. That's my last problem before putting CMS in production for OCS Inventory NG project.

Kind regards

[alex7575]

Bonsoir didier, ca n'a rien avoir avec ta question ms en voyant ton site j'ai la page "Copies d'écran". Tu as fais un template pour cette page ou tu l'as fais en "dur" à la main?
si tu as fais un template, pourrais tu nous faire partager la source stp?
en tout cas joli site

[Ted]

Very strange.  Yeah, you're correct.  It doesn't validate, but I'm not sure why it's not working correctly.  I tested this about a month ago and it was fine.

I'll look into it, though, Safari does display it correctly. 

[Piratos]

Test this template:

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<rss version='2.0'
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
	<channel>
		<title>CMS Made Simple News Feed</title>
		<link>{$root_url}</link>
		<description>Current News entries</description>
		{foreach from=$items item=entry}
		<item>
			<title>{$entry->title}</title>
			<pubDate>{$entry->gmdate}</pubDate>
			<category>{$entry->category}</category>
			<description>{$entry->strippedsummary}</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[{$entry->strippedcontent}]]></content:encoded>
		</item>
		{/foreach}
	</channel>
</rss> 

Template corrected !

[Didier LIROULET]

Bonsoir Alex7575.

Non, je n'ai pas encore pris le temps de faire un template. C'est fait à la main.

Désolé 

Peut-être un jour...

[westis]

Please only use English in the English forums, so that everyone reading here can understand. For French instead use the French forum.

[Piratos]

I have a separate script that makes a newsfeed.

The output look as example like so:

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<RDF>
<channel>
<title>Backend zum Newsmodul CMSMadeSimple von piratos</title>
<link>http://localhost/011/index.php
<description>Dieses Dokument enthält die Schlagzielen von Piratos</description>
<language>de_de</language>
<copyright>Jan Czarnowski piratos@coftware.de</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>08.12.05 07:12:48</lastBuildDate>
</channel>
<item>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:02:15 GMT Standard Time</pubDate>

<title>Test</title>
<description>Das ist ein Test</description>
<link>http://localhost/011/index.php?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=detail&cntnt01articleid=2
</item>
<item>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:09:40 GMT Standard Time</pubDate>
<title>News Module Installed</title>
<description></description>
<link>http://localhost/011/index.php?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=detail&cntnt01articleid=1

</item>
</RDF>

that script has a plavce in modules/News/backend.php.

Visitors can read the title and the description and can read  with the link the complete news item.

[Didier LIROULET]

Hi Piratos.

Thanks a lot, with this template, all works fine 

Sorry for speaking french, i was answering that screenshots page of OCS Inventory NG new wen site is not made through a template, but by hand.

Kind regards and keep up the good work !

[Piratos]

Here is my small backend.php to show news as a rdf - Feed.
place it in News

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<?php
include(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))."/config.php");
include_once($config['root_path']."/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php");

// Changes this to what you want
// Bitte Änderungen nach Wunsch durchführen
$titel="Backend zum Newsmodul CMSMadeSimple von piratos";
$language="de_de";
$copyright="Jan Czarnowski piratos@coftware.de";
$description='Dieses Dokument zeigt die Schlagzielen von Piratos';
$limit=30;
// End of you changes
// Ende deiner Anpassungen

$link=$config['root_url'].'/index.php';
$mod='?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=detail&cntnt01articleid=';
$out="";
if (function_exists('mb_http_output')) {
	mb_http_output('pass');
}

$sql = "SELECT mn.*, mnc.news_category_name FROM ".$config['db_prefix']."module_news mn LEFT OUTER JOIN ".$config['db_prefix']."module_news_categories mnc ON mnc.news_category_id = mn.news_category_id WHERE status = 'published' ORDER by news_date DESC LIMIT 0,".$limit;
$db = &ADONewConnection($config['dbms'], 'cms:pear');
$db->Connect($config["db_hostname"],$config["db_username"],$config["db_password"],$config["db_name"]);
if (!$db) die("Connection failed");
$db->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
$row = $db->_Execute($sql);

if(!$row->EOF)
{
    header ('Content-Type:text/xml; charset=utf-8');
    $out .='<rdf:RDF>'."\n";
    $out .='<channel>'."\n";
    $out .='<title>'.$titel.'</title>'."\n";
    $out .='<link>'.$link.'</link>'."\n";
    $out .='<description>'.$description.'</description>'."\n";
    $out .='<language>'.$language.'</language>'."\n";
    $out .='<copyright>'.$copyright.'</copyright>'."\n";
    $out .='<lastBuildDate>'.date('d.m.y h:m:s').'</lastBuildDate>'."\n";
    $out .='</channel>'."\n";
    $i=0;
    while (!$row->EOF)
    {
        $i++;
        if ($i<$limit)
        {
        $out .='<item>'."\n";
        $out .='<pubDate>'.gmdate('D, j M Y H:i:s T', $db->UnixTimeStamp($row->fields['news_date'])).'</pubDate>'."\n";
        $out .='<title>'.$row->fields['news_title'].'</title>'."\n";
        $out .='<description>'.$row->fields['summary'].'</description>'."\n";
        $out .='<link>'.$link.$mod.$row->fields['news_id'].'</link>'."\n";
        $out .='</item>'."\n";
        }
        $row->MoveNext();
    }
       $out .='</rdf:RDF>'."\n";
}

$db->Close();

if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
            echo mb_convert_encoding($out, 'UTF-8', 'auto');
}
else
{echo $out;}


?>

[Ted]

Turns out that Firefox is expecting a different content type.  Calguy made some changes to the News module and it works fine without having to change the template.  They're in svn.

[Alex_Leipzig]

Hi Piratos,

thx for the great script. Is there any possibility of changing it, I need to add the actual content of the News item, and I don't want the link to show.
Thanks.

Btw, here's my modified script. (I needed rss2.0)

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<?php
include(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))."/config.php");
include_once($config['root_path']."/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php");

// Changes this to what you want
// Bitte Änderungen nach Wunsch durchführen
$titel="IALT aktuell";
$language="de";
$copyright="IALT - ialt@uni-leipzig.de";
$description='Akuelle Nachrichten vom IALT, Uni Leipzig';
$limit=30;
// End of your changes
// Ende deiner Anpassungen

$link=$config['root_url'].'/index.php';
$mod='?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=detail&cntnt01articleid=';
$out="";
if (function_exists('mb_http_output')) {
mb_http_output('pass');
}

$sql = "SELECT mn.*, mnc.news_category_name FROM ".$config['db_prefix']."module_news mn LEFT OUTER JOIN ".$config['db_prefix']."module_news_categories mnc ON mnc.news_category_id = mn.news_category_id WHERE status = 'published' ORDER by news_date DESC LIMIT 0,".$limit;
$db = &ADONewConnection($config['dbms'], 'cms:pear');
$db->Connect($config["db_hostname"],$config["db_username"],$config["db_password"],$config["db_name"]);
if (!$db) die("Connection failed");
$db->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
$row = $db->_Execute($sql);

if(!$row->EOF)
{
    header ('Content-Type:text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1');
    $out .='<rss version="2.0">'."\n";
    $out .='<channel>'."\n";
    $out .='<title>'.$titel.'</title>'."\n";
    $out .='<link>'.$link.'</link>'."\n";
    $out .='<description>'.$description.'</description>'."\n";
    $out .='<language>'.$language.'</language>'."\n";
    $out .='<copyright>'.$copyright.'</copyright>'."\n";
    $i=0;
    while (!$row->EOF)
    {
        $i++;
        if ($i<$limit)
        {
        $out .='<item>'."\n";
        $out .='<pubDate>'.gmdate('D, j M Y H:i:s T', $db->UnixTimeStamp($row->fields['news_date'])).'</pubDate>'."\n";
        $out .='<title>'.$row->fields['news_title'].'</title>'."\n";
        $out .='<description>'.$row->fields['news_data'].'</description>'."\n";
        $out .='<guid isPermalink="true">'.$link.$mod.$row->fields['news_id'].'</guid>'."\n";
        $out .='</item>'."\n";
        }
        $row->MoveNext();
    }

    $out .='</channel>'."\n";
    $out .='</rss>'."\n";
}

$db->Close();

if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
            echo mb_convert_encoding($out, 'iso-8859-1', 'auto');
}
else
{echo $out;}


?>