RSS, Introductions, and "More..."

[Lxndr]

A lot of sites I read in my RSS reader display their information as follows:


<b>TITLE</b>

blah blah introduction, blah.
More information after the fold..

<i>Read More...</i>


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How can I get something like this in the RSS feeds for my site? I want people to be able to read the introduction in the RSS feed, but to read the Body, they'll have to click over. Is that a bad thing? How can this be done?

[Harm10]

You can find the lay-out of the feeds in the templates folder but be aware that those files can be changed from version to version.

[Lxndr]

Okay, you're right. Yay! I found the feed_rss_template.xml file, which I imagine is what I'd need to edit.

Unfortunately, the more important question of how I need to edit this file to achieve my goals remains unanswered.

[Harm10]

Google is your friend! For instance: http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_syntax.asp

[Lxndr]

That... actually doesn't help me.

Here's the RSS I'm seeing:

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        <item>
            <title>%title%</title>
            <link>%link%</link>
            <comments>%link%#comm</comments>
            <description><![CDATA[ %description% ]]></description>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">%guid%</guid>
            <category>%category%</category>
            <pubDate>%date_rfc%</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>%author-nick%</dc:creator>
        </item>
       

Okay, well it's obvious I need to change the following: <description><![CDATA[ %description% ]]></description>

And also pretty obvious I need to change "%description%" to whatever points towards the introduction portion of the entry. Which I'd have thought might have been "%introduction%" but testing has shown me it is apparently not.

This seems to be perhaps more a pivotx function than a "google rss" thing.

[Harm10]

If you want to dive into it: the feed creation is in module_parser.php (function renderFeed).
But for this file the same warning: it can be changed in a version upgrade.

[Lxndr]

Understood. But... now I'm confused:

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            if ( $PIVOTX['weblogs']->get('', 'rss_full')==0) {
                // don't put anything in the content.
                $content="";
                $description = trim($introduction);
                if (strlen($body)>5) {
                    $description .= makeMoreLink($entry, '', array('html' => true));
                    $summary .= ' ...';
                }
            } else {
                // put the introduction and body in the content..
                $content = trim(str_replace(" "," ", ($introduction.$body)));
                $description = trim($introduction.$body);
            }


It appears my web-log is doing what comes after the 'else' 100% of the time (i.e. "put the introduction and body in the content.")

while what I want it to do is what the first parts seems to be doing... trims the introduction and then creates a 'more link...' .

What I haven't been able to puzzle out yet is this:

$PIVOTX['weblogs']->get('', 'rss_full')==0

How do I get that to return a 'true'?

because if I can make THAT happen, I should get exactly what I want.

This seems to imply that there might be an 'rss_full' setting on my weblogs...

...and now, I've found it.

So all this just to discover that the answer is "unclick the box in your weblog that says 'create full feeds.'" (Which I think was clicked by default)

But hey, I've learned something.

[Harm10]

But hey, I've learned something.

That is never a bad thing!