help setting up cgfeedmaker

davids355 · Post by **davids355** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:23 pm

I dont really understand how to set this up. Could anyone post a little guide?

I dont know if its possible, but what Im really trying to do is make an xml feed from a certain category in my news module.
Ideally I would like to give this fee url to other sites so they can display my feed on their sites.

Ziggywigged · Post by **Ziggywigged** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:34 pm

See this thread: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,26017.msg127057.html#msg127057
Hope that helps.

davids355 · Post by **davids355** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:55 pm

did read that post, but didnt quite understand it. Just wondering if someone has the module working, whether they could give me a guide on how to set it up??

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:20 pm

I'm also having problems figuring out setup. After setting up the parameters to generate a feed for the News Module (using the default "News" template), the produced RSS feed link just sends me back to the CGFeedMaker admin page (http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... late=false).

I'm not sure if I have the feed settings correct, especially the "Use this page for links:" dropdown. Is this to be set to the page from which the feed will be generated? I have it set to the page the News module is located. I've tried placing the auto-discovery tag {CGFeedMaker action='autodiscovery' feed='news'} in the template head as well as in the metadata area of the page. I'm not sure I understand how the feed is to be generated.

tyman00 · Post by **tyman00** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:32 pm

Honestly, until you provide more information we can't really help you. We will at the very least need to see your templates and know what your settings are for that feed. We can't see that stuff so we have no idea where you went wrong. It would just turn out to be a big guessing game.

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:45 pm

Here are the feed settings:

I'm using the default template for this feed, which is set for the News Module.

Here is the template for the page I am trying to send from (it is the site's home page) with the auto-discovery tag:

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<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<!-- Change lang="en" to the language of your site -->

<head>

<title>{sitename} - {title}</title>
<!-- The sitename is changed in Site Admin/Global settings. {title} is the name of each page -->
{metadata}
<!-- Don't remove this! Metadata is entered in Site Admin/Global settings. -->
{stylesheet}
<!-- This is how all the stylesheets attached to this template are linked to -->

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}
<!-- Relational links for interconnections between pages, good for accessibility and Search Engine Optmization -->

{literal}
<__script__ type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
//pass min and max -measured against window width
function P7_MinMaxW(a,b){
	var nw="auto",w=document.documentElement.clientWidth;
	if(w>=b){nw=b+"px";}if(w<=a){nw=a+"px";}return nw;
}
//-->
</__script>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
#pagewrapper {width:expression(P7_MinMaxW(720,950));}
#container {height: 1%;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
{/literal}
<!-- The min and max page width for Internet Explorer is set here. For other browsers it's in the stylesheet "Layout: Top menu + 2 columns" -->

{global_content name='scripts'}
{CGFeedMaker action='autodiscovery' feed='news'}

</head>

</__body>
<!-- start pagewrapper -->
<div id="pagewrapper">

<!--{global_content name='alert'}-->
{global_content name='top_info'}
{global_content name='header'}

    <!-- start accessibility skip links -->
    <!--<ul class="accessibility">
      <li>{anchor anchor='menu_vert' title='Skip to navigation' accesskey='n' text='Skip to navigation'}</li>
      <li>{anchor anchor='main' title='Skip to content' accesskey='s' text='Skip to content'}</li>
    </ul>-->
    <!-- end accessibility skip links -->

     <!--<hr class="accessibility" />-->
    <!-- Horizontal ruler that is hidden for visual browsers by CSS -->

      <!-- Start Navigation -->
<div style="float:left;clear:both;">
   <img src="images/cms/menu_left.jpg" alt="" />
</div>
      <div style="float:left;width: 803px;" id="menu_vert">
         <!--<h2 class="accessibility">Navigation</h2>-->
         {menu template='cssmenu.tpl'}
      <!--<hr class="accessibility" />-->
      </div>
<div style="float:right;">
   <img src="images/cms/menu_right.jpg" alt="" />
</div>
      <!-- End Navigation -->

{global_content name='header_bottom'}
{global_content name='flood'}
{global_content name='home_info'}
{global_content name='home_ads'}
{global_content name='footer_info'}

</div>
<!--end pagewrapper -->

<__body>
</__html>

This is the code I have set in the page to generate the feed:

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{CGFeedMaker action='rsslink' feed='news'}

tyman00 · Post by **tyman00** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:50 pm

That's odd because this displays the feed: http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... feeds/news

I will try to look into it more later tonight.

Edit: Try downloading the new release that was released today and see if that solves the problem. If not try creating a new feed with a different name.

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:14 pm

I downloaded the latest release (1.0.2), tried creating a new feed with the same settings, tried the link from another network, but no change. The link generated (for me) still takes me to the CMSMS admin page.

tyman00 · Post by **tyman00** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:50 pm

Try removing the calls for all of your Javascripts and see what happens. Maybe one of the Javascripts is throwing something off.

JeremyBASS · Post by **JeremyBASS** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:28 am

tyman00 is right... try move things in the right areas...

ex:
analytics should be at the bottom...

and

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<noscript>
<div style="text-align: center;color:red;font-size:1.3em">
Note: This page uses JavaScript</div>
<div style="text-align: center;color:red;font-size:1em">
Please make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser in order to properly view this site.</div>
</noscript>

should be in the body

and much more... pretty site thou...
but the structural mishaps you have going don't explain the fact that the RSS link is to the admin area...

http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... late=false

try making a test page... one that have nothing in the template ... see if that forces it to work... also... I when I had this issues... when I moved it up and down the head... and in fact for me making it last is what finally got it going (so below the ajax)... also change the feed link your RSS site feed is http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/... that may help as well... may...

I'm just listing out things that got it to work for me..

Hope this helps...
cheers
jeremyBass

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:25 pm

Jeremy - Thanks for the coding tips.

I've created a test page (http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... age=test-2) using a bare template with no javascript, etc. that contains the autodiscovery link {CGFeedMaker action='autodiscovery' feed='news'}:

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<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

<title>{sitename} - {title}</title>

{CGFeedMaker action='autodiscovery' feed='news'}

</head>

</__body>

<div id="pagewrapper">

   <!-- Start Content (Navigation and Content columns) -->
   <div id="content">

      <!-- Start Content Area -->

      <div id="main" style="padding:8px 20px 8px 20px;">

         {content}
	  <!-- End Content Area -->

      <!--<hr class="accessibility" />-->
      </div>


   </div>
   <!-- End Content -->

</div><!-- end pagewrapper -->

<__body>
</__html>

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the module and tried both the sample news feed 'news' and the Google products sample feed 'google products' but the link still takes me to the CGFeedmaker page of CMS MS admin (http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... late=false). The code found in the html source that is created from the autodiscovery code is:

...which also points to the CGFeedMaker admin page.

Here is the source code of the created page:

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<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

<title>Parkview Church :: Iowa City - Test</title>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sample News feed" href="http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/admin/moduleinterface.php?mact=CGFeedMaker,m2,default,0&_s_=f2cb6d6e&m2feed=news&m2showtemplate=false" />


<!-- TinyMCE Session vars empty --></head>

</__body>

<div id="pagewrapper">

   <!-- Start Content (Navigation and Content columns) -->
   <div id="content">

      <!-- Start Content Area -->

      <div id="main" style="padding:8px 20px 8px 20px;">

         <a href="http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/admin/moduleinterface.php?mact=CGFeedMaker,m3,default,0&_s_=f2cb6d6e&m3feed=news&m3showtemplate=false" title="Sample News feed"><img src="images/cms/rss.png" alt="Sample News feed" title="Sample News feed" />Sample News feed</a>
	  <!-- End Content Area -->

      <!--<hr class="accessibility" />-->
      </div>


   </div>
   <!-- End Content -->

</div><!-- end pagewrapper -->

<__body>
</__html><!-- 0.198832 /  / 18924608 / 19129192 -->

Here is a screenshot of the 'news' feed:

I have the "Use this page for links:" set to the page where the News Module is displayed. Is this correct? I'm unclear as to what this should be set for. What is the correct link to the RSS feed supposed to look like? Maybe I can hard code it in since I'm only going to be using one feed (News).

JeremyBASS · Post by **JeremyBASS** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:47 am

HMMMM... I'll get back... I need to check my site and see what I did for sure now... I forgot about this ...

cheers
jeremyBass

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:10 pm

Note: I've upgraded today to version 1.4 but no change. Still investigating what the issue could be.

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:33 pm

Upgraded now to 1.5.2 "Caguas" but no change for me. Here's the sample Google Products feed on a bare-bones template (no scripts, etc.) if anyone wants to try it.
http://www.parkviewchurch.org/contents/ ... age=test-2

dvanoss · Post by **dvanoss** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:02 pm

Just an update on what I've tried with this weird issue. I installed a fresh version of CMS Made Simple and CGFeedmaker worked fine with the sample content. I then loaded in a saved backup from the live site via FileBackup into the test site, at which point the test site's feed started to point to the CGFeedmaker Admin again. I systematically began deleting content, modules, etc. until now all I have is the one page with the feed code and one news article, and it still generates a link to the CGFeedmaker Admin page. So I'm stumped. I've tried clearing the cache and generating a feed for Google Products, but no change. Does the same in Firefox and Explorer. When I switch back to the saved MySQL Dump from the sample install, it works again, so there's something in the SQL that's causing the issue. I've tried it from another location and no difference.

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