RSS New Products Feed Validation

[jed clampit]

Hi All

new to prestashop and the forum so apologies if posted in wrong place.

 

my problem is that when i try to validate my 'RSS New Products Feed' i get the following errors.

This feed does not validate.

• line 6, column 2: Undefined channel element: mail [help]

  
  

  <mail>[email protected]</mail>
  
  
  ^

  
  

• line 14, column 1: Missing channel element: description [help]

  
  

  </channel>
  
  
  ^
  
  
  In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers
  
  
  could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.

  
  

line 14, column 1: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]

</channel>

 

 

i have done a search of the forum and google but not turned anything up. can someone explain what is wrong and how i fix it ?

 

running 1.4.6.2

[Friend]

If you haven't solved this, here is what i modified in rss.php to validate it:

 

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
 <title><![CDATA[<?php echo Configuration::get('PS_SHOP_NAME') ?>]]></title>
 <link><?php echo _PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__; ?></link>
 <description>YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION</description>
 <generator>PrestaShop</generator>
 <language><?php echo Language::getIsoById((int)($cookie->id_lang)); ?></language>
 <image>
  <title><![CDATA[<?php echo Configuration::get('PS_SHOP_NAME') ?>]]></title>
  <url><?php echo _PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__.'img/logo.jpg'; ?></url>
  <link><?php echo _PS_BASE_URL_.__PS_BASE_URI__; ?></link>
 </image>
  <atom:link href="LINK TO YOUR FEED" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

 

If you get guid error also

Add this:

 

echo "\t\t\t<guid><![CDATA[".htmlspecialchars($link->getproductLink($product['id_product'], $product['link_rewrite'], Category::getLinkRewrite((int)($product['id_category_default']), $cookie->id_lang))).$affiliate."]]></guid>\n";

After this:

echo "\t\t\t<link><![CDATA[".htmlspecialchars($link->getproductLink($product['id_product'], $product['link_rewrite'], Category::getLinkRewrite((int)($product['id_category_default']), $cookie->id_lang))).$affiliate."]]></link>\n";

 

So i deleted the mail line, added site description and atom link that let me validate it . You have to modify YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION and LINK TO YOUR FEED (http://yourwebsite/m.../feeder/rss.php) with your own.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Note i'm not a programmer or a skilled presta "coding guy", i just runned more or less into the same problem, and i just posted my solution.