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[EnergyFreak +]

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
Example: V4.1.6 Designer

What template are you using?
purple

Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

Hi,

First I would like to know where my feed is located, and are there feeds per category and an overall feed? I would like to have an RSS feed link beside the category name for example and a place where I could add a RSS button.

Thanks for any help.

[Lhotch +]

external.php is the script that creates the feed.

I dont recall if it accepts category variables or not but with a little php knowhow it shouldnt be hard to do what you want.

[EnergyFreak +]

This is what I get when I go to www.yoursite.com/external.php

Feed for 'Unknown feed name'
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Although it does go to a feed page but with no data in it and no feed name. Do I fix this in my admin controls or something? I do not have access to the encrypted files so I cannot make any changes within the external.php file

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Two questions:
1) Did you actually change the url from "yoursite" to your actual site url?
2) Do you actually have any ads in your site?

This is nothing personal, however it seems you continue to post questions throughout the forum and have been advised and given direct links to the online documentation. Several of your posts ask questions that are very basic and are covered in the online documentation, such as,

Originally Posted by EnergyFreak

First I would like to know where my feed is located, and are there feeds per category and an overall feed?

It becomes quite frustrating to those that try help on these forums to help those that will not help themselves and take time to learn some fundamental basics. The answer to these questions in your post are covered in the online documentation for the RSS feed.

I also elaborate on this on my blog which has several articles regarding the use of 68 Classifieds.
Using The RSS Feed

I am not trying to be critical of you, I'm trying to help you help yourself and get better assistance from those, like myself who have been on here for years.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

Two questions:
1) Did you actually change the url from "yoursite" to your actual site url?
2) Do you actually have any ads in your site?

This is nothing personal, however it seems you continue to post questions throughout the forum and have been advised and given direct links to the online documentation. Several of your posts ask questions that are very basic and are covered in the online documentation, such as,


It becomes quite frustrating to those that try help on these forums to help those that will not help themselves and take time to learn some fundamental basics. The answer to these questions in your post are covered in the online documentation for the RSS feed.

I also elaborate on this on my blog which has several articles regarding the use of 68 Classifieds.
Using The RSS Feed

I am not trying to be critical of you, I'm trying to help you help yourself and get better assistance from those, like myself who have been on here for years.

Hi Mike, I totally understand the point you are trying to make, some times I go and read it and are not sure of certain things therefore I post them on the forums to be sure. I have checked out your site and the documentation but nothing explains this error i keep on getting no matter what I type.

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 4 at column 49: Entity 'Atilde' not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Which is inside a red box. I get this error when I type Petites Annonces Gratuites du Qu�bec - Publito and when I add extra parameters to it. I also have a few ads therefore it should work.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by EnergyFreak

This is what I get when I go to www.yoursite.com/external.php

Feed for 'Unknown feed name'
Subscribe to this feed using:
Subscribe Now
Always use this reader to subscribe to feeds.

[ Feed ]Feed preview

Although it does go to a feed page but with no data in it and no feed name. Do I fix this in my admin controls or something? I do not have access to the encrypted files so I cannot make any changes within the external.php file

Hi,

I now have 45 ads on my site and my feed still has an error in it. I tried;

Petites Annonces Gratuites du Qu�bec - Publito

and

Petites Annonces Gratuites du Qu�bec - Publito

to limit the feed to 20 but I get the above error, I read the documentation and still no luck.

[John Snyder +]

Try editing your external.php and put your title data in cdata tags like it is being done for the description.

[EnergyFreak +]

Originally Posted by juven14

Try editing your external.php and put your title data in cdata tags like it is being done for the description.

I cannot do that because that file is encrypted...

[Eric Barnes]

Try this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2880058/external.php It is a stock one unencrypted.

[EnergyFreak +]

Thanks eric for the unencrypted file, so i added the cdata tag into my title but unless I did something wrong it doesn't seem to work still.

PHP Code:

echo "\t\t\t".'<title><![CDATA['. $listing['title'] . $seperator . $price .']]></title>'."\r\n";