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problems with RSS feed

trond Member
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Hi all.

I have a problem with the RSS feed from my zenphoto site. Whether I'm using firefox or wordpress to read the RSS link, i get an error.

this is the RSS link:
http://trond.fyfanden.dk/zenphoto/rss.php?lang=en_US

Any obvious solutions?

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Yes, upgrade as 1.2.1 is ancient.
  • gsvalentine Member
    Before I upgraded to zenphoto 1.4 I could view all the post comments in one RSS at http://www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/rss-comments.php?lang=en_US now that RSS feed is no where 2 be found. I can only feed RSS feeds for each image. Any ideas??
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    With Zenphoto 1.4 the RSS links changed and are no longer called via the root files like rss-comments.php. Actually a htaccess rewrite rule should direct the old links to the new ones. You are probably using an outdated htaccess file which you should have seen a note about on setup.

    If your theme still shows that link you did not upgrade the theme correctly as well. Since you use the standard default theme you have to replace that as well (as noted on our instructions).
  • gsvalentine Member
    If I go to http://www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/index.php?rss-comments&lang=en_US I just get a page with no comments at all. It also does the same on another website, that is 100% new install.
  • gsvalentine Member
    Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? Or do I need to reinstall a older version?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Please open a ticket.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Even if you did not open a ticket the feed is now valid and working in the nightly build.

    However - I admit I missed this above - `?rss-comments&lang=en_US` of course does not get anything. The comments rss feed always requires `&type=` to be set so it know what comments it should get. Please take a look at the rss feed functions on `zp-core/template-functions.php` or best use these function to see how a feed url looks.
  • gsvalentine Member
    I have tried, just about everything... it still does not work. It use to work when I ran version 1.2.8. All I had to do was open zenphoto location then rss-comments.php. So no idea, why you have made it so hard to get to work now. Just to show you it use to work... check out http://archived.thebythams.org.uk/photos/rss-comments.php
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    As said above /rss-comments.php is NOT the right link anymore. Also it REQUIRES now the type to be set as also stated above. So simply /rss-comments.php does not get anything and that is right so.

    Install the current 1.4.0.2 or the trunk nightly build and look at the generated comments rss links. All rss feeds have been tested and are valid according to the W3 validator.
  • gsvalentine Member
    After, lots and lots of playing I got it working... http://www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/index.php?rss-comments&id=?&type=?rss-comments&type=gallery&lang=en_US. Still think the old way was a lot better.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    This change makes it easier for people to update as there are less files in the root besides other advantages codewise. Besides that all rss feeds had always these extra parameters to call different things (all comnents, comments of an image or album etc).

    You could have just used a standard theme and look what links it generates. You actually had only to change your hteme to use the right function.

    `?rss-comments&id=?&type=?rss-comments&type=gallery&lang=en_US`
    You did not really look at the link generated, did you? It should of course be:
    `?rss-comments&type=gallery&lang=en_US` (while lang is optional if you use en_US anyway).
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