[SOLVED] Embedding RSS Feeds

[emilyshimell]

Hi All

Thanks for reading

I am quite new to CMSMS although I am starting to get to grips with it a bit more now. I am having a problem though with RSS feeds.

I have spent a while now searching around online for help on how to do what I think should be very simple - to integrate a number of others (partners/manufacturers) RSS news feeds and press releases into a single page on our website.

I found a forum page earlier http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopi ... view=print which I thought would solve my problem so I created a UDT with the code in the forum, and downloaded a php file at http://lastrss.oslab.net/ I went to file manager and uploaded this .php file into the exact folder/file as in the given code to ensure this was all correct

I then created a new page in my website and put in the tag {getfeed url="http://newsroom.cisco.com/c/journal/get ... ss-release"}

The page remained blank. i tried with a few different RSS feed links and also checked that I had copied the code correctly and uploaded the php file.

Few things: when I clicked on the php file in the file manager, a blank page shows and nothing else... should this be the case?

No errors come up including no smarty errors or similar.

I have searched in the forum for the search term "rss" and returned "no results found". I'm sure this can't be the case - could this just be an error at the time of me searching?

I also searched for cmsms rss embed and various other things in google although I could only really find rss modules and ways to create my own rss feeds - this is not what I want to do, I want to display other feeds on my site.

I don't want to use javascript because of indexing/spider crawls/SEO etc.

This has frustrated me all day because I really think I should have been able to work this out and do this without posting on here but this doesn't seem to be the case! I'd appreciate any help I can get - I must say I don't fully yet understand php files and modules yet (although i have managed to get the hang of the news module now!) although I think I am getting to grips with user defined tags etc.

I look forward to hearing from you! I hope I have posted in the right place and explained as much as possible to not get shouted at by fellow forum posters

[uniqu3]

Look at modules like RSS2HTML or XMLMadeSimple

[DADOCTOR]

I too, have tried to do the same with adding other website feeds
to my website.

I have not been able to get it working properly.

This is what I used

simplepie module
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/simplepie

but I found it hard to get information from the actual simplepie website as it looks like it is no longer supported.

I did find this website http://www.webcodepro.net/cmsms-news-feeds.php/ that has examples of simplepie feeds.

This is some information that I received from site owner.

CGExtensions (Needed for CG FeedMaker)
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/fi ... ackage-357

CG FeedMaker
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/fi ... ackage-630

*Download and install SimplePie (https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie) on the main site (for the sites I did, installed SimplePie on the Home Page)

*Make sure URL of the RSS Feed that was created with CG Feedmaker is included in the SimplePie code. (Here's the SimplePie example page: http://simplepie.org/wiki/setup/sample_page)

I hope this may help you,
and if you do I would love to know how to instal it properly

Regards
Ryan

[emilyshimell]

Thanks for getting back guys

I have actually looked at RSS2HTML and followed instructions but couldnt get it working. I will have a look at the instructions from you Ryan and see what I can do and then let you know what happens!

Em

[emilyshimell]

OK I have worked out doing this now. I think I was making it much harder for myself as I hadn't really understood how modules were installed and worked before having a go at it. So I was getting into uploading php files into the file manager, making folders cacheable...instead I found some other help files and did the following (much more simple!)


Extensions > Module Manager > Available Modules tab
found CMSSimplepie module and downloaded/installed
This also updated CGExtensions at the same time

Content > CMSSimplepie
Add new feed > name and URL
On page where I want feed to be displayed I put in {CMSSimplepie feed="companynewsfeed"} where companynewsfeed is the name you gave the feed in the module.

I also changed the feed template named sample to format the feed better.

Even though this was a pretty simple thing to do that took me quite a long time to work out, i'm pretty chuffed with myself and hopefully some other newbies may be helped with this now!

Cheers!

[Gregor]

Hello,

I installed rss2html, created feedname "Hardlopen" and feed url "http://connect.garmin.com/feed/rss/acti ... r=gregor64"

On the page I entered:

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{cms_module module="RSS2HTML" feed="Hardlopen" template="Hardlopen" numitems=5}

Template "Hardlopen" looks like:

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				<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
				{foreach from=$rss->items item=item}
					<tr style="background: {cycle values="#E5D6CC, #FFFFFF"}">
						<td><h3 style="margin: 0; color: #294B5F; display: inline;"><strong><a href="{$item.link}">{$item.title}</a></h3></strong> - <em>{$item.pubdate}</em>
						<p style="margin: 0;">{$item.summary}</p></td>
					</tr>
				{/foreach}
				</table>

Output can been seen at:
http://www.uisge-beatha.eu/hardlopen/RSS_Hardlopen.html

Hope this helps.

Gregor

[DADOCTOR]

OK I have worked out doing this now. I think I was making it much harder for myself as I hadn't really understood how modules were installed and worked before having a go at it. So I was getting into uploading php files into the file manager, making folders cacheable...instead I found some other help files and did the following (much more simple!)


Extensions > Module Manager > Available Modules tab
found CMSSimplepie module and downloaded/installed
This also updated CGExtensions at the same time

Content > CMSSimplepie
Add new feed > name and URL
On page where I want feed to be displayed I put in {CMSSimplepie feed="companynewsfeed"} where companynewsfeed is the name you gave the feed in the module.

I also changed the feed template named sample to format the feed better.

Even though this was a pretty simple thing to do that took me quite a long time to work out, i'm pretty chuffed with myself and hopefully some other newbies may be helped with this now!

Cheers!

Thanks for your reply Emily,

After reading your reply I had a look at importing the simplepie xml file.

I have never been able to see the simplepie module when I search for it, but silly me had it set to display only latest version modules, it must be a default setting.

so it goes to show that if your give help you will get it in return.
many thanks.

if you can will you pm or post me a link to check out your feed?

thanks

Regards
Ryan

[emilyshimell]

Thanks Ryan! I was going to PM you but i think id have to start a new forum post just to try and work out how to pm someone

I have embedded RSS here
http://www.videocentric.co.uk/news/partner-news.shtml

and also on various other pages i.e.
http://www.videocentric.co.uk/applicati ... tion.shtml

There is still some work to be done regarding formatting/alignment and the amount of a post that shows (some are showing as 1 line, some as whole essays) but the general idea is working now.

Have you had a go at embedding an RSS now?

[M@rtijn]

Thanks Ryan! I was going to PM you but i think id have to start a new forum post just to try and work out how to pm someone

New users (less then 10 posts) do not have permission to PM

[emilyshimell]

As this has been solved, please can someone explain how I now change the post to [SOLVED]?!

[M@rtijn]

That's shouldn't be that difficult

Go to the first post, click "Edit" and add [solved] in front of the title

[DADOCTOR]

Thanks emilyshimell,

I have it working now, thanks for the links

I just have to beautify it now