Comments on: Customizing an RSS feed using Drupal and Views

By: klickreflex

klickreflex — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:06:53 +0000

Hey Tim,

thanks for your answer.
It seems the problem was somewhere else:

The rendered display of my imagefield is not available inside the node object:
var_dump($node->field_global_bild1[0]['view']; returns NULL.

The image path is available though, so I’m able to build the image link manually using $base_url, $node->field_global_bild1[0]['filepath'] and imagecache_create_url().

Much effort just to get a feed formatted the way one wants it to be ^^

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:41:06 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I haven’t touched this code in awhile, but I would check whether there’s a format filter on the description that strips out HTML, either on the node itself, or happening within Views.

Or try removing check_plain() from the following line in phptemplate_preprocess_views_view_row_rss():

$vars['description'] = check_plain($item->description);

Or remove it from within the views-view-row-rss.tpl.php template. Hope that helps!

By: klickreflex

klickreflex — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:28:17 +0000

Thanks for your solution, it works almost great for me.
I got on issue: do you have an idea why I can’t seem to output an image inside the description?
It seems to get stripped out completly when I extend my views-view-row-rss template file like this:
print $node->field_global_bild1[0]['view'];

Should this possibly be inserted into a tag other than ?

Cheers,
Daniel

By: ABR

ABR — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:45:04 +0000

How about if I need to post more then one description ?

Thanks

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By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:17:44 +0000

Tim, I just want to thank you for sharing this.
I was trying out Contemplate and Views RSS templates and none got me where I wanted to go. Your code helped.

By: Josh Lind

Josh Lind — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:01:21 +0000

Thanks! I too was struggling through the lack of output with standard Views 2 RSS feeds.

We should should be able to do this stuff without Views Bonus Pack or Views RSS.

Now one can, if one feels comfortable with the template.php file.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:28:19 +0000

You may also want to have a look at the Views RSS module (http://drupal.org/project/views_rss) – this goes some way to providing the above functionality

By: Montana Harkin

Montana Harkin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:48:12 +0000

This looks like a good solution, but I think it is inefficient.

Drupal does the initial query of nodes to build the RSS feed. Then your code does a single query to the database for each node in the feed.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:52:25 +0000

@andrewsuth:

I believe it’s possible to access the rss channel variables by copying the original $view object into $vars, but I just haven’t tried it (which is why I took months to reply).