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Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module? [solved]
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:27 am
by VincentD
Is this possible? I've tried every RSS related module available with no luck. I hear that CGFeedMaker works well for that, but I can't figure out how to set it up. If someone could help me with this I would appreciate it.
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:36 am
by Dr.CSS
If you look into the module, probably in Help or from what I here in the admin of the module there is supposed to be a sample news module template for it...
I've never used it but here it is dead easy...
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:59 am
by VincentD
Still can't seem to get it right. I did everything the help said, and my feed link is being generated as an empty page.
http://hyrulefacility.com/index.php?mac ... eturnid=15
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:19 pm
by RonnyK
I would say CGFeedmaker....
Ronny
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:53 pm
by VincentD
Yeah I'm using that. If you check out my previous post, you'll see the error.
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:49 am
by Rolf
Hi VincentD
Can you give us some more information about this?
Your System Information,
Used templates,
etc.
And CGFeedmaker needs pretty urls with hierachy set true.
Regards, Rolf
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:01 am
by VincentD
Aye, there's my problem. How do I set up pretty urls?
Nevermind, figured it out.
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:46 am
by VincentD
Excuse my double post.
Now I have another problem. The feed is up and working, but it's getting the feed information from the news module. The thing is, I want it to grab the information from the blogs module, but I do not know how to do this.
Anyone?
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:41 am
by Dr.CSS
The template you use may have calls for the News module in it, look thru it for any and replace with the blog call/name...
Or the tag you use calls it, I've never used it so look thru the whole thing for instances of News being called...
Re: Make an auto updating RSS feed from news module?
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:51 am
by VincentD
I've done that... Maybe not good enough. I'll post it here, maybe someone else will want to look it over.
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{* an example of how to create a feed from a call to the news module *}
{* you can use any smarty variable that is available in the news summary template *}
{* you can substitute this logic with output from any module that supports a summary
view, or possibly get artistic and mix output from different modules *}
{news assign='junk'}
EDIT: Ah ha! Finally figured out what that means. Where it says {news assign='junk'}, I just replaced that with {Blogs}, and presto!