Any chance on limiting number of items in RSS feed?

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Hello,

The ‘New Products’ RSS feed that I have as a life bookmark in Firefox shows hundreds of items. Wouldn’t it make sense to limit the feed to what’s really new, maybe one month old maximum?

thanks,

RJ

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The feed stuff could definitely use some more attention. I’ll give this some thought.

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Thanks mate!

RJ

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Just as an update on this, ben___'s been working on feed stuff lately. It’ll be limited to something reasonable the next time we push a major update of the site.

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Hmmmm., something has been done. On Google, the RSS feed shows fine, as it does in OSX Mail.

In Firefox however, I get a ‘the Live Bookmark failed to load’, and in Thunderbird I get “http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/products_rss.php is not a valid feed.”

The problem is the ‘&ndash’ entity used (line 109). It’s a HTML entity, not XML. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XM … references

Here’s a few more hints: http://dotjay.co.uk/2006/sep/named-html-entities-in-rss

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even better: http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Hello, I found a great function when you need a way to encode content from the database as numeric entity references, as that’s a safe way to use high characters and special characters in an xml document, like in an RSS feed.

<?php function xml_character_encode($string, $trans='') { $trans = (is_array($trans)) ? $trans : get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES); foreach ($trans as $k=>$v) $trans[$k]= "&#".ord($k).";"; return strtr($string, $trans); } ?>
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I just pushed a fix for this, things should be a-ok for now =]

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Perfect!

thanks a lot, happy Easter.

RJ