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RSS Feed Really This Complicated?

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Cori Roberts

Saturday 21 February 2009 8:33:47 pm

We're trying to import RSS feed to use for my site and went looking through the documentation. I see things like editing PhP files and creating Chron jobs things I never had to do for previous CMSs. It was simply add the link and go on your way.

Is this really this complicated? If we have stumbled upon the wrong place showing how to add RSS feeds please point us in the right direction.

Thanks so much

GX

Łukasz Serwatka

Sunday 22 February 2009 11:27:42 pm

Hi,

Take a look on this article
http://ez.no/developer/articles/how_to_import_and_export_rss_feeds

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Cori Roberts

Monday 23 February 2009 6:51:50 am

Hello Luk

Yes that's the documenation I read and consider it to be WAY too complicated for average joe user. Every other CMS I've used was as simple as paste the feed and it worked. I've never had to alter Php files and set up Chron jobs. And try though we might this is NOT working for us. So I ask again..is it really THIS complicated? Anyone know of better instructions or an easier way that we're missing?

Thanks

Paul Wilson

Monday 09 March 2009 11:15:42 pm

Hi Cori,

Have you made any progress with this?

Yes, my RSS import/export article is fairly detailed. My aim was to help readers have a broad understanding of RSS (value, implications, etc) as well as a thorough explanation of how to use eZ Publish's RSS capabilities.

On cronjobs, yes, it takes some getting used to, though I’ve just had a quick look at other CMS (Joomla and Drupal) and they need cronjobs configured too. Actually, though I reserve the right to be wrong, I can’t see a way to do organise any RSS effectively without cronjobs. In any case, the advantage of configuring cronjobs is that you also enable some of eZ Publish’s particularly useful and powerful features – notifications, workflow, etc.

For me, the key thing that comes out of your comments is the value of creating an example class for RSS imports (I’ll post this to issues.ez.no shortly). I expect this would help get RSS import going faster, especially for new users.

In the meantime, if you have a specific area where you are stuck, let me know and I can try to help you along.

Regards

- Paul