Rss my site .. how 2...

cant make head nor tail on how i do an rss feed from my site ! ( so that users can click it and have it load in there news readers!

anyone help ?

i need an idiots guide....

Ta

You can use the newslisting snippet to create your rss feed.

So create a new document with a blank template and set the content type to text/xml

Here is an example call for the content of the page:



The startID is the folder contaiing the documents you want to show in the rss.
Summarize is the number of items to include in the rss.
levelLimit tells the snippet to only look inside the startid folder and not go into any subfolders.
truncSplit will summarize a post

Then in the head section of your template include the following:



this will show the rss link in the address bar in firefox and other supported browsers.

You can also add a link on you page like the following:



Hope that helps.

Kyle

Noob as well here.
When i try this, i get the following error :

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<p>No entries found.</p>

Quote from: lemerou at Aug 09, 2006, 11:01 AM

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

This is not an error, it’s normal behaviour when viewing XML without style information.

Quote from: lemerou at Aug 09, 2006, 11:01 AM

<p>No entries found.</p>

This also is not an error. You define the folder where rss items are retrieved in &startID parameter at ditto call. The folder you have defined simply doesn’t have any documents.

lemerou

you will want to use the ditto snippet for this now and not newslisting. Ditto is the replacement for newslisting and has many more features and better functionality.

Thanks both for your answers.
I will switch to ditto right away.