Can site (relative) URLs in posts be converted to absolute for RSS feed?

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identity Reply #1, 18 years, 6 months ago

Trying to setup an XML/RSS feed, but noticed when looking at the feeds outside of the site, e.g., in iGoogle, the links within the posts that weren’t absolute to begin with, such as all internal site links, remained relative and became something like this:

google.com/my/relative/link.htm

The Ditto call is placed on a page named with an xml extension, blank template (empty causes .htm to be appended after the .xml), and type setup for text/xml.

Here is the call:

[!Ditto? &parents=`6` &depth=`5` &display=`5` &format=`rss` &tpl=`InstilleryRSS`!]

Am I going to have to write out absolute URLs on all posts that will refer back to interior pages?

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ganeshXL Reply #2, 18 years, 6 months ago

What does your InstilleryRSS chunk look like? I guess you can just modify this to include [(site_url)]

http://www.fantastique.ch/
http://www.dnik.ch/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnik/

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identity Reply #3, 18 years, 6 months ago

Yes, the main link is setup that way. But any links within the "post" that were created using the MODx linking based on ID within a post remain relative. So if you are syndicating a blog and link to previous posts, they’ll be relative to wherever the blog is being syndicated to.

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ganeshXL Reply #4, 18 years, 6 months ago

Try to change the settings in

Resources > Manage Resources > Plugins > TinyMCE
Path Options = fullpathurl

I’m not sure if this changes documents already created though... but worth a try.

http://www.fantastique.ch/
http://www.dnik.ch/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnik/

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #5, 18 years, 6 months ago

Ditto 2.1 should automatically rewrite the relative URLs to absolute URLs in the content and introtext fields when using the RSS format.

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identity Reply #6, 18 years, 6 months ago

Mark, that’s what I thought I had read.

Take a look at this URL http://www.identitydevelopments.com/feeds/instillery.xml

and especially look at the "local-focused tips" link in the Holiday post and the "reputation management" link in the last post. Both of those refer to other pages on the site which have been linked to through using the ID linking. While they appear fine on the page, if you subscribe to the feed and then view off-site, they remain relative links.

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #7, 18 years, 6 months ago

Can you post the contents of the InstilleryRSS chunk

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identity Reply #8, 18 years, 6 months ago

Here you go Mark,

<item>
<title>[+rss_pagetitle+]</title>
<link>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</link>
<description><![CDATA[ [+content+] ]]></description>
<pubDate>[+rss_date+]</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</guid>
<dc:creator>[(site_name)]</dc:creator>
[+tagLinks+]
</item>

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #9, 18 years, 6 months ago

Two things:
1. Do things work without the custom template?
2. If so, try removing the ifs around these statements in the main ditto class (for testing)

		if (in_array("content",$this->fields["display"]["db"]) && $this->format != "html") {
			$resource['content'] = $this->relToAbs($resource['content'], $modx->config['site_url']);
		}
		
		if (in_array("introtext",$this->fields["display"]["db"]) && $this->format != "html") {
			$resource['introtext'] = $this->relToAbs($resource['introtext'], $modx->config['site_url']);
		}

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identity Reply #10, 18 years, 6 months ago

Mark,

Well it renders with or without the tpl, but hard to say whether removing the if’s work or not... doesn’t seem to matter in iGoogle, but then when I tried it in NetVibes, it seemed to be absolute URLs, but when I restored the ditto class and then when I put the tpl back in place, it seemed to work on NetVibes either way. So maybe it has something to do with iGoogle then.

-- actually, I take that back... still not sure... NetVibes was based on my domain, but the URL was to the feed URL rather than the absolute root domain.

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