Comments on: Latest News in Magento

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:56:51 +0000

Will this go into cache of the system?
Do I need to do something to cache it?
Because if each hit It reloads the feed it will be quite a load…

Thanks!

By: Butch

Butch — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:28:53 +0000

Hi Mihai,

thankyou for sharing how you managed;-(((

Wy dont you???

Kind regards

By: Mihai

Mihai — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:57:49 +0000

Thanks. I`m a newb at magento but i managed to get it to work in the sidebar on all pages.
Limited to 3 articles tho and 100 characters so it wont get big :d
thanks again

By: magento developers

magento developers — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:45:52 +0000

please help as I’m also getting the same issue

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:41:30 +0000

Sounds like a syntax error – paste what you have written and someone will be able to help.

By: chintan

chintan — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:41:04 +0000

When i include this code.. home page content disappears .. and when i remove this code (specially 1st line) it shows back..

By: paul wood

paul wood — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:48:21 +0000

Also you need to do a find and replace and change all [ to to ]

Also would just like to say this site is awesome, I have learnt so much about Magento in such a short space of time and most of that knowledge has come from this site.
Keep up the good work.

By: paul wood

paul wood — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:41:57 +0000

Just went through the whole post, Thank you to all who contributed. This made it a lot easer for a classic asp dev like me.
just thought i would make this easer for every new viewer.

[?php $channel = new Zend_Feed_Rss('http://feeds.feedburner.com/Inchoo'); ?]
[div id="rss-block-container"]
[div class="rss-block-title"]
[h2][?php echo $this-]__('Latest News') ?][/h2]
[/div]
[div id="rss-content"]
[ol id="rss-content"]
[?php $counter = 0; ?]
[?php foreach ($channel as $item): ?]
[li id="rss-content"][p][strong][a href="[?php echo $item-]link; ?]"][?php echo $item-]title; ?][/a][/strong][/p][?php echo substr($item-]description,0,150); ?]....[p][strong][a href="[?php echo $item-]link; ?]"]Read More[/a][/strong][/p][p][strong][?php echo $item-]pubDate; ?][/strong][/p][/li]
[?php if(++$counter == 3) {break;}?]
[?php endforeach; ?]
[/ol]
[/div]
[/div]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:01:28 +0000

Many thanks, Tomislav!!! Brilliant help.

By: Alay

Alay — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:11:38 +0000

I am trying to display this news feed:

http://news.cnet.com/2547-1_3-0-20.xml?tag=aboutCNET;rss

How do we use this?

By: Alay

Alay — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:52:00 +0000

Thanks, got this working now….

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:31:44 +0000

Try using the Zend_Feed_Atom object instead.

By: Alay

Alay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:36:42 +0000

The URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/zilabee

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:30:55 +0000

Feedburner isn’t your “feed” per se. What is the URL of your actual feed?

By: Alay

Alay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:29:40 +0000

I need some urgent help on this, I have got this working fine for the inchoo feed. But when I added my own feed URL ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/... this just does not work. Does anyone know a solution please.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:43:51 +0000

You Are a Star thank you…………..works perfectly!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:51:46 +0000

on closer examination, it looks like you’re using $item as a counter variable, then replacing it as an actual item object in the foreach.

Change

[?php $item = 0; ?]

[?php $counter = 0; ?]

and make the same change to

[?php if(++$item == 3) {break;}?]

making it

[?php if(++$counter == 3) {break;}?]

obviously I used the variable name ‘counter’ to be explicit, but you can name it anything you want.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:23:00 +0000

Thank you for your help Daniel,
I have tried this and it did not work, any other idea’s …..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:44 +0000

@Tim – as it stands, your code isn’t checking for (++$item ==3) until after the loop is done running (and all articles are printed.)

Move the [?php if(++$item == 3) {break;}?] to the line above the [?php endforeach; ?] and it should work. This way, each iteration through the loop, you’re checking to see how many articles have been run and you’ll know when to stop (or ‘break’ out of the foreach loop.)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:17:28 +0000

I have managed with the help from reading the guys on this page get this working fine but the last thing to solve is bugging me, so I am after some help please.

I have included Publishing date and limited the description succesfully but failed to get the two below lines to work to limit the number of feeds to show in the home page to 3.
[?php $item = 0; ?]
[?php if(++$item == 3) {break;}?]

My code as it stands….

[?php $channel = new Zend_Feed_Rss('http://www.my-site.co.uk/news/rss.php'); ?>div id="rss-block-container">
[div class="rss-block-title"]
[h2][?php echo $this->__('Latest News') ?][/h2]
[/div]
[div id="rss-content"]
[ol id="rss-content"]
[?php $item = 0; ?]
[?php foreach ($channel as $item): ?]
[li id="rss-content"][a href="[?php echo $item->link; ?]“][?php echo $item->title; ?][/a][?php echo substr($item->description,0,500); ?][?php echo $item->pubDate; ?][/li]
[?php endforeach; ?]
[/ol]
[?php if(++$item == 3) {break;}?]
[/div]
[/div]

thanks in advance…….