Rss

[garysmith]

I looked in the knowledge base and couldn't find it. Is there a simple way to have the ads show through rss. Did I miss it in the upgrade at 3.1?

gsmith

[Lhotch]

The file external.php is still in 3.1 which can be used for others to get your ads via rss.

[juven14]

The script only creates an RSS feed. It is up to the end user to work out how it is displayed at other sites or user's computer. There are quite a few ways to display RSS feeds, some use desktop applications and others convert it to html for the web.

To create RSS feeds from your site just pass the right variables to external.php.

The values it is setup to take are:

category = type
city = city
state = state
country = country
ad owner = owner
text search of title and description = searchtext

To utilize these you would call external.php in this manner:

external.php?type=1&city=dallas

[garysmith]

Thanks Guys...

gsmith

[pauljr]

For me this seems to only show the newest listings. I want to create 6 feeds for each of my main catagories which would include all the sub catagories last 20 or so listings. Is this possible?

[Eric Barnes]

This is possible but with code changes. Open external.php and find this line:

if (isset($_REQUEST['type'])&& $_REQUEST['type']<>"")
    {
        $sSQL .= " AND p.section = ".(int)$_REQUEST['type'];
    }

Then replace with:

if (isset($_REQUEST['type'])&& $_REQUEST['type']<>"")
    {
        $arr_childs = array((int)$_REQUEST['type']);
        get_ids($arr_childs);
        $sSQL .= ( empty($arr_childs) ) ? '': " AND p.section IN (". implode(', ', $arr_childs) .")";
    }

With this change when you enter the parent category it will loop through the children.

[Soleiltan]

Originally Posted by suzkaw

This is possible but with code changes. Open external.php and find this line:

if (isset($_REQUEST['type'])&& $_REQUEST['type']<>"")
    {
        $sSQL .= " AND p.section = ".(int)$_REQUEST['type'];
    }

Then replace with:

if (isset($_REQUEST['type'])&& $_REQUEST['type']<>"")
    {
        $arr_childs = array((int)$_REQUEST['type']);
        get_ids($arr_childs);
        $sSQL .= ( empty($arr_childs) ) ? '': " AND p.section IN (". implode(', ', $arr_childs) .")";
    }

With this change when you enter the parent category it will loop through the children.

This doesn't seem to work.....?

RSS

[Soleiltan]

I fixed the link to the site...not a DNS issue...rather a "me not typing in the correct link" issue...sorry...

Does anyone have any suggestions on this please?

It doesn't appear to work, even with the changes suggested....

Help...I'm going live....

[cheesegrits]

If you want to PM me your email address, I can send you a "known good" working version, which also has a few other fixes in it (like cleaning the title so &'s don't break feed readers).

I'm assuming this is kosher if we both have developer licenses. If not, I'm sure Eric will let me know.

-- hugh

[Soleiltan]

I don't know why not...it will save them some agro.....

-- Lorren