News Module RSS

[itsnick]

The RSS feed for the news module currently links back to the "Long Post" on the site.  The feed displays the "Short Post" and I would like it to link back to the "Short Post" on the site as well instead of long.

You can view the site here if need: www.escapeintolife. com

Whats the best way of changing this?   - Appreciate any help.

[kweitzel]

It is not really made to do that. You will have to change the file rss.php in the modules "news":
http://project.websitebaker2.org/browser/trunk/wb/modules/news/rss.php#L89

The Linkgeneration starts at Line 89 (the link is directly the anchor).

cheers

Klaus

[itsnick]

The link back to the site seems to be on Lines 95 and 96. 

95.  <guid><?php echo WB_URL.PAGES_DIRECT ORY.$item["link"].PAGE_EXTENSION; ?></guid>
96.  <link><?php echo WB_URL.PAGES_DIRECT ORY.$item["link"].PAGE_EXTENSION; ?></link>

It currently echos a link back to the long post.  How could I change this to just echo a link back to the page that the post is on.  For example: /pages/home.php

Thanks again

[itsnick]

I was able to get the rss.php file to link back to the page and not the post.

I changed lines 95 and 96 to the following:

95. <guid><?php echo WB_URL.'/pages/'.MENU_TITLE.'.php'; ?></guid>
96. <link><?php echo WB_URL.'/pages/'.MENU_TITLE.'.php'; ?></link>

Also, your pages need to be in lowercase in the website baker admin.  Just in case someone else is looking for the same answer in the future.

Thanks for all your help.

[itsnick]

I would like to edit "rss.php" to display only the latest post instead of every post.  On line 90 there is a while loop so it will display multiple "<items>" in your feed.

If this while loop was removed would it only display one item in the feed?  Would this one item be the latest post?  And how do I remove this while loop?

Thanks

[aldus]

Not a realy good idea ... a better way would be to modify the mySQL-Query at the end

Code:

... ORDER BY modified_when DESC LIMIT 1

to get only one result ...

Regards
Aldus

[itsnick]

Thanks again to everyone.  I simply changed "while" to "if" and now its displaying the latest post.

Also, I'm using yahoo pipes to aggregate all the page feeds into one feed for the entire site.

I know this site probably would of been better suited for wordpress, but we became to invested into website baker.  So if anyone needs a similar solution feel free to contact me.

Thanks,

Nick

[snark]

is it possible to display pics in the rss feed?

I know that rss is not meant for this but as a customer works with a narrowcastingsystem in his shop and wants to have his own newsitems on those screens... including the pic's

narrowcasting: tv screen to bring info to your customers