RSS

[kt03]

Hi,

I never had done RSS Feed (XML file) before but I now I have to do it. I have the blog site and they want me to put last 10 blog entries output to RSS feed but I never had done it before so I don’t know where I begin to start with.

thanks

[insuractive]

A quick google search for "Coldfusion RSS" turned up a slew of articles, including this one:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/04/05/creating-your-very-own-rss-xml-feeds-with-coldfusion-mx

Basically, you are going to create a coldfusion page that generates the RSS xml file either on a regular basis or whenever an update is made (your choice), after that its just a matter of supplying the feed URL to your users.

[kt03]

I have the blog entry form where end-user can submit the blog. When they hit the submit button for adding blog, I take these info and insert into the database and also write the xml file. I look at several examples from the web site and I try to do the same thing but keep getting an error. Please tell me what I did wrong here.

Here the error I got:
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The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


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Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'file:///S:/scripts/rss/blog.xml'. Line 1, Position 1

theXML
^

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Below is the code:
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[Abinidi]

Use CFMXL to create the file. It will do better for formatting. And use CDATA also to validate correctly.

[kt03]

My code now is working fine but it is not working with the way I want. My query returned three records and the xml file should display three different records but it was display the same record for three times. What did I have wrong here?

Thanks

[Newsgroup_User]

kt03 wrote:

> <cfloop from="1" to = "#numberOfFeedItems#" index="ctr">
>
> <!--- Then output the fields for each item --->
> <cfoutput>
> <item>
> <title>#author#</title>
> <link>rss.cfm</link>
> <description>#body#</description>
> </item>
> </cfoutput>
> </cfloop>

change the above to:

<cfoutput query="getblog">
<item>
<title>#author#</title>
<link>rss.cfm</link>
<description>#body#</description>
</item>
</cfoutput>

Explanation:
your cfloop + cfoutput construct is wrong:
use just <cfoutput query="getblog"> instead of <cfloop ...><cfoutput>;
since your query already pulls only 3 top records only those will be
cfoutput'ed - no need to loop through anything;
alternatively, you can pull ALL records with your query (drop the TOP
#NumberOfFeedItems#) and then use <cfoutput query="getblog" startrow="1"
maxrows="#NumberOfFeedItems#">

--
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
Vientiane, Laos
http://www.sabai-dee.com

[maxell]

You should be using cfxml instead of cfsavecontent. Your created a loop for the length of your result set but you didn't index anything. If your not going to use the query attribute of cfloop you need to index the variables: #author[ctr]# .