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January 15, 2010 12:40pm
Subscribe [4]#1 / Jan 15, 2010 12:40pm
Howdy folks. Is there a way to include multiple EE categories in one RSS feed using the RSS code itself, and not a URL?
I’m trying to merge six categories into one RSS feed for an iPhone app, and I cannot get the feed to validate when I use external methods of feed merging.
RSS is something I always struggle with, so if the answer is, “nope, sorry” I totally understand.
#2 / Jan 15, 2010 12:43pm
Can you show us what you’ve got? Some code, a link to the feed, perhaps? Basically, a feed is not really all that different from a regular weblog tag: if you can get multiple categories to display in a template, you should be able to do the same thing with a feed.
#3 / Jan 15, 2010 1:28pm
It can most likely be done in EE, but if it can’t Yahoo! Pipes ftw. It’s an awesome tool for stuff like that ..
#4 / Jan 15, 2010 1:33pm
Hey bjornbjorn - thank you! I’ve been playing with Yahoo Pipes but the feeds that emerge are not quite working for me in terms of complete and total merry validation.
Hi Ingmar
This is what I have so far - which is basically nothing different from the basic! I want to have categories 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 30 display in one RSS feed, but I’m not sure where in the RSS code I should define which categories, if that makes sense.
{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="weblog1"}
{exp:rss:feed weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{encoding}"?>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<atom:link href="http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/rss_2.0" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" >
<title>{exp:xml_encode}{weblog_name}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
<link>{site_url}</link>
<description>{weblog_description}</description>
<dc:language>{weblog_language}</dc:language>
<dc:creator>{email}</dc:creator>
<dc:rights>Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"}</dc:rights>
<dc:date>{gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://expressionengine.com/" >
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
<item>
<title>{exp:xml_encode}{title}{/exp:xml_encode}</title>
<link>{title_permalink=site/index}</link>
<guid>{title_permalink=site/index}#When:{gmt_entry_date format="%H:%i:%sZ"}</guid>
<description>{exp:xml_encode}{body}{extended}{/exp:xml_encode}</description>
<dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
<dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"}</dc:date>
</item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</channel>
</rss>
{/exp:rss:feed}#5 / Jan 16, 2010 4:20pm
Hi Sarah,
Can you give us a little more information about what is not validating (and which tool you are using to do so)? The RSS template should work like this.
Cheers
Greg
#6 / Jan 16, 2010 5:28pm
I figured it out - I just created a parent category, added all the categories I wanted as children to that parent, then made sure the parent was selected as well - presto! Feed works.
Thanks, folks!
#7 / Jan 16, 2010 5:31pm
Hi Sarah,
Glad that you got it working.
Cheers
Greg