RSS - How do you make it work?

[centinel3 +]

I have found the browse.tpl. now it's a matter of figuring out how to put the RSS image and feed so that it is unique per category (e.g. furniture, small things, large things). Ideally I would like to have the RSS image icon in front and inline with the breadcrumbs main category text. Or if there is an easier way to implement this feature, I'm up for suggestions.


Thank you again for all your help. This is much appreciated.

chris

[seymourjames +]

I do not understand what you are actually trying to do. Please explain.

[centinel3 +]

I would like to put an RSS feed on individual categories. How do I go about this. Where do I put the RSS image so people can click on it for the feed.

Thank you,
chris

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by centinel3

I would like to put an RSS feed on individual categories. How do I go about this. Where do I put the RSS image so people can click on it for the feed.

Thank you,
chris

Use firefox with firebug, right click on the page where you would like to put image and select inspect element to see the html where you clicked and put your image there in the appropriate template which is displayed using debug=1 as we discussed in the other thread.

[Eric Barnes]

Also you may want to check out this template:
http://68mods.com/listing/21/Hello_D__Theme.html

It includes an rss image where I think you want it:
http://68mods.com/categories/templates.html

[centinel3 +]

Slow leaning today. Firefox is my new best friend.

I did as you said and found that the location is

<a href="categories/antiques.html" class="breadcrumb">Antiques</a>

I went in and looked for the antiques.html file and can not find it. I know it was created, though I'm not sure how to locate it. For that matter, I'm not sure how to locate any file that is created on the database (assuming that this file is there).

chris

[Eric Barnes]

If you have the SEO module installed then the names of the files are not what you think they are.

categories/antiques.html would actually be category.php?cat=antiques

But the same template file is used for all the categories. categories/browse.tpl

[centinel3 +]

I'm grasping it now. So I can choose to put the RSS image anywhere on the browse.tpl template, though how do I go about making it so the RSS feed is unique per category? Do I just plop the image in a good location and then have multiple links on it:

like this:
http://www.closeoutfloorsamples.com/...cat=appliances
http://www.closeoutfloorsamples.com/...?cat=furniture
http://www.closeoutfloorsamples.com/...p?cat=antiques

probably not, though would like to figure this out.

chris

[Eric Barnes]

That is why I mentioned downloading that template. It already includes the code you are looking for.

[Lhotch +]

The image has nothing to do with the rss feeds itself its just something "clickable" (ie an html anchor) that takes a person to the rss feed script which is external.php.

You should be able to create a link to the external.php file and append to it cat={$smarty.get.cat}