X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

• Quick and easy way to stay in touch with your customers via RSS feeds
• Promote your feeds to RSS aggregators and get more traffic!
• Generates latest news and latest products RSS feeds
• Configurable in admin
• Set title and descriptions of feeds
• Choose maximum number of entries to display
• Use product short or detailed descriptions
• Set product thumbnail width
• Set feed language and encoding type
• Easy to install
• Compatible with v4.4.x - v4.5.x

FREE!

DEMO | DOWNLOAD


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Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Bump!

Everyone should have at least news and product RSS feeds available, so I've made it free :)

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Great Phil, keep going. I appreciate your dedication. If you keep your promise I would like to test your Predictive Search mod.

Your free stuff should be moved out from Third Party Add-Ons Forum section, for more visibility.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Thanks PhilJ!!

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Must have, cheers Phil!

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Thank you for this wonderful rss feed generator module. It's Exactly what i need. I downloaded the mod and extracted the files.

I"m a little confused about the structure of the folders.
1) Should I upload the whole folder just the way it is?
2) In your download, "module" folder is a sub-folder of skin folder. But in X-cart Skin & Module folders are their own parent folders, not sub-folders of the other.
3) Please explain in what order or how I should upload the files.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Sorry, I had somehow missed out the 'common_files' folder.

Re-download the file package.

Then just upload the entire contents of /upload to your store root folder.

IE. where auth.php config.php home.php etc. reside.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Thanks for your Quick Response. I Re-downloaded the package and installed it per your instructions.

* When I click the links "Latest News" or "Latest Products" I get the error message:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: https://www.mydomain.com/rss_news.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

and

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: https://www.mydomain.com/rss_products.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

* Do you the know reason and solution to this? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Have you generated the feed(s) ?

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

** Nevermind. I found the solution. I needed to click "Generate" for each of them in the admin section of "RSS Feed Settings".

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

It's working Great now, after I clicked the Generate Buttons. Thanks.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Is there a text or word limit for the "RSS latest products description" field? and the "RSS latest news description" field?

I have it working fine, but when I add more text to the description fields, the products & news stop showing up in the Feeds. I had to make the description fields very short and generate again to make the products & news starting showing properly again.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

No, no limit. Ensure you use valid HTML or the feeds can break quite easily.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

I believe I'm using Valid HTML. I'm not using any html in the description field in the feed settings area.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Try viewing the feeds in Opera. I find that browser usually gives a good indication of what's causing the feed to break.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Do I have to Generate the "Products RSS Feed" Everytime I add New Products to my shopping cart? I add new products every day.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Yes, or you can setup a cron job to run xrss_products.php periodically. Contact your host for details on how to set one up.

A quick Google search came up with this script, which is an alternative way to automate cron jobs without having to use the command line.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

It doesn't seem to install correctly on 4.5.5? It shows up in the modules list but if you activate it and then try to go to the settings in Content>RSS Feed Settings it opens the general settings page but throws an error "The module is inactive or not installed"
It also doesn't appear in the list on the modules tab of General Settings.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Because v4.5.5 has an extra field in the config table.

Use the attached SQL patch instead.

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Yea, I checked the error logs, just wasn't sure where the extra field needed to go in the patch. Thanks for the quick response! Great Module!!

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Hi Philj

I had an issue with my site were i had to reinstall it, and came across errors because i forgot to reinstall the RSS Feed Generator Module. The thing is, i can't access the admin area of my xcart site.

** My question is, for step 2: Can I apply the patch in myPhpadmin by pasting the contents of the patch in the "Run sql query" field / upload the patch in sql? Would the patch install properly if i do it in myPhpadmin?

Re: X-Cart RSS Feed Generators v4.4.x - v4.5.x
 

Yes, you can use phpmyadmin if you like.