RSS Feed

[Andrew]

Im looking to syndicate various ads to another site via RSS feed, does geoclassifieds have the potential to render an RSS feed, anybody have any example code i could start with?

[carpman]

Im looking to syndicate various ads to another site via RSS feed, does geoclassifieds have the potential to render an RSS feed, anybody have any example code i could start with?

did ask for rss feeds to be part of GC E, would love to be able to do feeds of top level categories, even break them down into:

all
featured
new

[admin]

There are waaaayyy too many acronyms in this industry. Please specify what you are wanting to accomplish.

[carpman]

There are waaaayyy too many acronyms in this industry. Please specify what you are wanting to accomplish.

sure you know this but here is link anyway:
http://www.voidstar.com/module.php?i...d=book&op=feed


What i would like to do is be able to display top level categories ads on another site such as the vbportal site i am developing, vbportal allows me to add rss feeds these are then displayed in blocks on portal.

Thus when a user visits portal site ads from GC site are displayed, to enhance this it would nice to have rss feeds broken into sections:

featured
new
etc

Now if there was the ability to have a third party affiliate tracking code in the feed so syndication with rss feeds would mean affiliates could earn commison for sign ups generated from clicks through from links in rss feed.

can't get clearer then that

[admin]

There are waaaayyy too many acronyms in this industry. Please specify what you are wanting to accomplish.

sure you know this but here is link anyway:
http://www.voidstar.com/module.php?i...d=book&op=feed


What i would like to do is be able to display top level categories ads on another site such as the vbportal site i am developing, vbportal allows me to add rss feeds these are then displayed in blocks on portal.

Thus when a user visits portal site ads from GC site are displayed, to enhance this it would nice to have rss feeds broken into sections:

featured
new
etc

Now if there was the ability to have a third party affiliate tracking code in the feed so syndication with rss feeds would mean affiliates could earn commison for sign ups generated from clicks through from links in rss feed.

can't get clearer then that

Looks as if one of the modules that produces the output you need could be made to "stand-alone". The code could be rewritten to produce XML in the format you need instead of the HTML it currently produces. Tell me if I am wrong.

Looks like the peices are all there...just have to be rearranged.

[admin]

Created what I believe is a beginning "rss" feed file. Enterprise users can send an email to geosupport@geodesicsolutions.com for the file. It is a beginning and the "rss" format needs to be worked out. Once you have a look at it respond back with what is needed within the xml.

There are individual controls within the file for which category to pull the ads from...the default is 0 (all categories) and which fields to display within the rss feed.

This only pulls featured ads currently. Once we get the file working as it should we can use the same format to pull other ad types.

Remember this is the bleeding edge of the code.

[carpman]

Thanks for the effort, don't have time test at moment as i have some family issues to sort out, soon as have time will test it out.

cheers

[Graham]

This sounds very interesting, lots of potential..... Is there any progress on it ?

[admin]

This sounds very interesting, lots of potential..... Is there any progress on it ?

We haven't had any feedback yet from anyone. We have only done this for the enterprise version. The file is module_featured_ads_rss.php within the classes folder. If you bought recently you may already have it.

If you have the Enterprise Version would you like to test and give us some feedback? Send an email to geosupport@geodesicsolutions.com if you want the file.

[Robertc]

Something more to add to my list of things to do some time in the future.

Admin.....

Please make this part of the Enterprise base code/update/upgrade scripts
.