[Solved] Anxious to Pay you! Formatted RSS feed from News Module

[casidougal]

I'm looking for a developer who can provide a solution to having the News Module create RSS feeds that are formatted/styled. Currently the RSS feeds from my CMSMS installs v1.0.8 have all text run together with no breaks and do not include photos, links, etc. A more complete description of the issue and desired solution can be found on this post:

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 340.0.html

I would be looking for a solution that includes general guidelines so the solution can be applied to existing CMSMS sites and new ones as we launch them.

You can contact me by clicking the mail icon to the left of this post or call me directly at 208.475.3192

Thanks,

Doug

[casidougal]

When I look at it in Sage, Firefox RSS reader extension, it looks just like all the other ones I have...

Thanks for the reply, Mark... how do all the feeds look to you?  Formatted or with the text all run together with no breaks?

Myself and other users are observing a significant difference in the RSS feeds produced by the News Module (on multiple CMSMS 1.0.8 installs)  as compared feeds from other sources.

For example if you go to Blogger's main feed and open the feed in Firefox you'll notice that the feed (specifically the content of each article) is formatted (line breaks, hyperlinks, photos, etc.)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BloggerBuzz

or as seen in this random blogger feed I just found:

http://krhunt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

It's the content of each article that I'm looking at . . . with other RSS feeds like blogger the styling, formatting, photos & such are included in the feed.

Here's a another CMSMS feed, notice that the content of each article are just run together in one big string of text with no formatting.

And another example I just set up. Notice on the"News Module Installed" post I added paragraph breaks, formatting, a hyperlink and a photo. http://calvaryromania.org/cluj/index.php?page=blog

But if you look at the feed  none of that is represented.

From what I can see this RSS feed behavior is the same across all versions of CMSMS.

[Nullig]

Don't know if this would work, or not, but you could try editing the action.rss.php file and change the following lines:

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			$onerow->strippedcontent = strip_tags($onerow->content);
			$onerow->strippedsummary = strip_tags($onerow->summary);

to:

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			$onerow->strippedcontent = $row['content'];
			$onerow->strippedsummary = $row['summary'];

Nullig

[casidougal]

Thank you for the reply.  I tried your suggestion but the RSS feed shows the following in the content area under each article post.

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string(43) "Smarty error: eval: missing 'var' parameter"

The news page is here  if you would like to take a look.

If you think this is something you might be able solve I am ready to pay you for your time    Please contact me if you're interested.

[calguy1000]

I'd take you up on this stuff, but honestly, I'm swamped

[casidougal]

The second option you posted seems to do the trick:

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$onerow->strippedcontent = $row['news_data'];
$onerow->strippedsummary = $row['summary'];

THANK YOU!!