My website and RSS

Hi All,

I am building a directory of businesses ( lets say ) and was wondering if there is a RSS solution out there in the Modx wild that will add any new pages to the feed.

Basically each business is a new page, so I would like it if someone subscribed to a rss feed and I added a new business ( page ) under any category it would be pulled in by the RSS feed.

Cheers for any pointers

PS: I develope websites for a living but have never touched RSS feeds so consider me a newbe

This might help get you started: http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/custom-rss-feed.html or http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Basic_RSS_feed

Quote from: AMDbuilder at Sep 10, 2009, 03:37 PM

This might help get you started: http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/custom-rss-feed.html or http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Basic_RSS_feed

Thanks for the links but I don’t think any of them will do what I require, really dont want to add extra ditto feeds etc.

I think I might just go down the line of running wordpress as a blog and pull in the RSS feed of that and just update that on every new business.

Pitty there’s no simple way to do it within modx though as wordpress would have done everything I needed plus the rss but I love modx so decided to go with this.

maybee time for a re think

You want any new pages/businesses to be published on an RSS feed... Those two links both tell you how to accomplish just that or am I missing something here?

AMDbuilder

Yes! Each new page (document a.k.a resource) you create with this ditto call
is a new feed.

Alias: NAME-OF-FEED.rss
Use in <head> for the pages you link the new feed:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="My other RSS-Feed" href="NAME-OF-FEED.rss" />

OK looks like I wasn’t reading it right last night so I’ll start again

I have followed the steps in the first link to a t and can view the RSS page, however when I create a new article it is not showing in the feed ( the feed has no content ), Have I missed something ??

Thanks both for your time.

Paul

Check:
Content type: xml
Template: blank
Published: YES

Check:
That the Ditto calls a container that do have published resources.

OK This is getting me a bit confused so heres what I did.

Created a chunk with the following and called it ditto_rss_tpl :


Then created a page with the following ditto call,


the page is named [(site_name)] Feed, it uses the blank template, it is published and has type text/xml.

Now when I goto that page it is desplaying like a rss feed but without content from new docs in it, I’ve got to have missed something but have no idea what.

Check:
That the Ditto calls a container that do have published resources.

I want / need the rss to display all new content not just from 1 container, is that possible ??

OK got it, needed to add the &parent.

Now next question

I need to exclude docs which I can do using &filter=`id,11,2|id,12,2|id,13,2` however I need to still display pages under these pages, is there a way to do it.

Thanks for the help

Woo hooooooo,

Sorted.

Instead of excluding the documents I can get round it by telling it multiple containers to grab from which is much easier as these will never change so the call is now:



Thanks for all the help