RSS feed for google base and oodle?

[Chad]

Any chance we can get an RSS feed of our ads so we can publish into google base and oodle?

http://www.oodle.com/info/upload/feed.html

http://base.google.com/

[Eric Barnes]

I think some one has created this already but I can't remember right off who it was. 68 Classifieds does come with the file external.php that will generate an rss feed and I sure you could modify it to send to both of those.

[Chad]

The external.php doesn't work for me because my listings have things like , and & symbols. the external.php doesn't seem to account for that.

[Chad]

I changed the title output to:

echo "\t\t\t\t<title>" . preg_replace("/([^A-Za-z0-9]+)/", " ", html_entity_decode($listing[title])) . "</title>\r\n";

Not real graceful but it's working.

[Eric Barnes]

You should just be able to use htmlspecialchars:
http://us2.php.net/htmlspecialchars

[juven14]

I have done this for both systems for another member. Let me know if this is something you'd pay for and we can make arrangements. I just looked up the requirements from both systems and just overwrote the RSS portion of external.php with my own code.

[civ]

We did this as well - great for getting listings "out there".

[Chad]

Originally Posted by civ

We did this as well - great for getting listings "out there".

Anyone care to share? I'm already broke from buying 68 and the zipcode mod... Or PM me a price if I must buy it but it better work. I want google base AND oodle mods.

[manilaboy]

I am willing to share the cost of this RSS add-on. I like my real estate listings to be displayed to as many classified sites as possible.

Will it be just a module that will be easy to insert on the script? Will it post my ads automatically on those sites?

Thanks,
Mike

[juven14]

It is just 2 files you upload, of course you have to save it as an xml file and manually submit to google, they have an API which I do have plans to work on. As for oodle, if you pay them, they will import listings every 20 min I think. I know both feeds work, have uploaded to google base myself and oodle accepted the feed for another member with this mod.