The two files pretty much blew out my feed "No Feed Available". I will reinstall my two original files.

How about indicating the lines of code you changed so I can changes those lines in the original files.

This has nothing to do with your fix, but I also have an issue with a blank line being generated in the xml file so that I can't use Feedburner. Seems to work in Google Reader.

Hi bob!

Thanks for your feedback. What feed were you trying to output? RSS 2.0? Which version of Ds-Syndicate are you using?

The fix has worked on other installation, I'm curious to know it hasn't worked for you. I'll try and route out the lines of code I changed for you Bob.

Version 1.1.1

RSS 2.0

Bob, the changes made to the two php files can be seen here:

http://www.goodwebpractices.com/downloads/ds-syndicate-changes.txt

David

Thank you very much. Those fixes worked. I have no authors, author emails, or (). Great work.

I was hoping these fixes would solve my other problem with not creating a valid feed for feedburner. I get the message: XML parsing error: :2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity. I know the problem is the blankline at the beginning of my code. I've search forum and the recommended fixes but still have not been able to validate a feed. Are you aware of a fix. The feed on your site looks very nice.

Bob, delighted the changes worked for you.

I don't know a fix to address the XML parsing error, but how about try changing your feed output from RSS 2.0 to RSS 1.0?

How do you add the little feed icon to the address bar? I thought ds syndicate was like the original joomla syndicate module, you had to have published on the site. So all you actually have to do is use the component and ignore the module? Where do u get the RSS subscribe module you have?

Im pretty confused about RSS feed to be honest Its not something i ever thought about using before.

Just wanted to say a big THANKYOU for this little gem. It is really nice to get things all tidied up and how I wanted them.

Cheers

Im pretty confused about RSS feed to be honest Its not something i ever thought about using before.

Hi Andy - RSS feeds are really useful you should definately consider adding one to your site.

You can get the RSS icon in the address bar by adding this code in your template:

< link rel="alternate" type="application/rss xml" title="RSS 2.0" rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/goodwebpractices" />

Just check out our source code to see how we did it!

Miskairal glad you found these tips useful and that they tidied up your RSS feed :-)

Good Fix, Thanks a lot

Hi there...

I see that this site (goodwebpractices.com) has an excellent RSS feed page generated (displayed when you click that "RSS Subscribe" link on the upper right part of this page... with the same template and display style as the rest of this site.

Apart from that, the article order there follows exactly the article order of the articles on the main page.

I'm trying to use ds-syndicate on my site too, and the display is really nothing like the way that I would like it to be; that is, how it is for this site.

Am I missing something? What are the things that I should do or look out for?



Next is the URL that I keep on getting from ds-syndicate. Whenever I've done something wrong in creating the feed and I delete it from the administration interface to start over...

The URL I get is incremented by 1
http://virtualestate.org/ultra...&feed_id=5

as in feed_id=1, then =2, ...

But in feedburner, the URL that I submit is =1 ... how do I force DS-syndicate to just create a certain URL with a certain ID?

If anyone could please take a look at my site. I'm facing a lot of problems from time-to-time specifically with file and folder writable permissions.

I have the problem with DS-Syndicate that it orders content by Modified Date, not by Create Date.
So every time you update a story, even if it's 1 year old, it goes back to the top of RSS feed list.
Is there a way to change this?

Do you have a recommendation for RSS on Joomla 1.5? It appears that this component only works with Joomla 1.0.X, right?

"I have the problem with DS-Syndicate that it orders content by Modified Date, not by Create Date. So every time you update a story, even if it's 1 year old, it goes back to the top of RSS feed list. Is there a way to change this?"

we have the same problem - has anyone found a fix for this ?

GreatGatsby - DS-Syndicate is for Joomla 1.0 yes. For Joomla 1.5, you could try Rss Factory: http://extensions.joomla.org/c...Itemid,35/ I haven't used it yet, however I have heard good things about it. If you give it a go, please let me know how you get on with it.

Glen - Sorry I haven't seen anyone mention a fix for that issue.

David,

Is RSS Factory used to syndicate my site's articles to others, or as a RSS reader inside my site?

Also, have you used the standard Joomla 1.5 RSS Syndication and Feeds modules?

Hi I applied your changes and the feed works fine in firefox but in IE6 and IE7 I see plain text and the html is not rendered.

What may be wrong? You can check it here
http://www.kolonaki-press.com/index2.php?option=ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1

Hi,
Anybody has any idea why my images do not appear in rss page? they are added with {mosimage} in article but do not appear:
http://www.webcms.ro/index2.php?option=com_ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1

Many thanks in advance.

I added the code to include the RSS link in the address bar:

< link rel="alternate" type="application/rss xml" title="RSS 2.0" rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/nabaima" />

But I still do not get the RSS link in the address bar... (see nabaima.com) any ideas on why it might not be working?

Thanks,

Rafa

Hi Rafa, you missed a plus sign between the rss and xml, so it should be:

rss[PLUS-SIGN]xml

That will make it work!

(The plus sign doesn't format with in the comments section...)

The "modified date" issue mentioned by Mark and Glen is a real issue. Anybody have a recommendation on where to look in the code to fix this?

Hi Jimmy! Sorry I still haven't come across a fix for the modified date issue.

Here is a great article about RSS feeds in Joomla 1.5:

http://blog.joomlatools.org/2008/06/leveraging-feeds-in-joomla-15.html

Will this work if the RSS feeds are valid but no feeds are going through? I'm not techy enough to understand what adding the brackets actually causes to the feeds. Does it stop the feeds from working?
My feed URL is http://money-magnets.net/index...&feed_id=1
Thanks for any help.

Kaz

Sorry Karen I don't really understand your question. Maybe you should try putting some articles through the feed so we can see how the feeds are formatted.

I guess I don't understand your initial problem with the brackets to know if that's my problem. Did the problem with the brackets mean that the feed didn't show the articles?

I have feeds and I have articles on my website. I have checked the feed with a feed validator and it says its okay. However when I click on the RSS and go into google reader nothing is loaded. When I click on this sites RSS all the articles are loaded, so I'm unsure why I'm not getting the same thing with my website.

I hope that is clearer and thanks for replying so quickly!

You're welcome.

The problem that we had with the brackets was that the was a set of open and closed brackets with nothing in them. I see that on your site the RSS feed has (Property Investment) in the brackets so that's not a worry.

Google Reader can take a few minutes to update so it might just be a matter of time. The feed that you showed us here: http://money-magnets.net/index...&feed_id=1 is just for the property investment section...

Okay maybe I'm being a little impatient.
I'll wait awhile and see what happens.
Thanks again for your reply!

I waited and you were right that the feeds did appear. However only the public ones so now I'll research how to do RSS feeds with registered articles
:-).

Thanks.

There appears to be a fix for the () problem on line 171 of ds-syndicate.php of the current version, but it's still not quite right. I'm not sure exactly what's supposed to go within the parentheses so I'm not sure what the proper fix should be.

Could there be an update version for Joomla 1.5? It seems to be a very popular request now.

My Feeds take forever to be published (the articles are instantly). Is that a common problem to you guys? Checked all my cache parameters (seconds only).
Help, anyone?

Hey guys

I can't get SEF Url inside my feeds...
I've been looking in the sources, there's a sefRelToAbs call, but link just gets turned into classical /content/view/x/y, not into actual OpenSEF url.
Any idea about this one?
Thanks
C

Thanks!
Thanks!!
Thanks!!!

It Works

Hello,
Thanks for the great run-down of this component and the fix to this issue.. one question for you.. We are currently finishing several new clients sites that require RSS feeds,.. I have searched everywhere! Do you know of a component that would allow us to produce an RSS for Joomla! 1.5+?? Preferably with the ability to syndicate a section.
Thanks again,
Looking forward to your reply.
Jesse

Hello, unless I missed something I didn't fix the 2 issues (parenthesis and email) the way it is described.

For the parenthesis, I just chose the following option in my feeds :
Include category names in title = No
(for category-specific feeds you might want to leave it to Yes, as the parenthesis won't be empty).

The email issue required a change in admin.ds-syndicate.php . A bug keeps the author format option from being displayed in the feed settings.
admin.ds-syndicate.php, line 481, change :
$lists['$renderAuthorList'] = ....
to :
$lists['renderAuthorList'] = ....

Then the option appears, which lets you select the author format :
- Name (what one might want)
- Email
- Name&Email
(it appears between "Fulltext" and "Render HTML" options).

Regards,
Orion

Hello,

I tried your files in hopes that my image issue would be resolved. I use feedburner and get the following image url http://feeds.feedburner.com/st...9_moby.jpg instead of http://www.stuffonmycat.com/im..._moby.jpg. I see your feedburner images come through fine. What am I missing?

Also, google reader does show the images but also the email address. I checked that I put the altered files to the server and they are the correct files.

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Jason

SOLVED

It was relative image pathing caused by JCE Editor. Had to switch the option off in the backend, and all began to work

I'm REALLY love this component. Do you have any idea how to install DS-Syndicate in Joomla 1.5.
Cause i dont find any RSS Syndication powerful as this for J1.5

hello, I have the same problem that rafael please someone can explain in detail how to do so that my pictures come out in the RSS ...

Thank you.

Have you read this news :
A vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.1.1 with manipulation of data

http://secunia.com/advisories/32321/

If you're looking for a RSS Syndicator for Joomla 1.5, please check out this post: http://www.goodwebpractices.co...la-15.html

where do I change CSS-HTML code so that the output of my feed will have a black background?

www.detroitrockreview.com/index2.php?option=ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1

don't use this component, hackers can hack it, there is exploit for it!