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Automatic RSS Feeds

Sometimes it is nice/required to render RSS feeds of news list views without any extra pages or configuration.
Therefore any editor can create a new page with a list plugin and the feed will contain the same configuration and therfore the same news records

TypoScript-Code

 1 [globalVar = TSFE:type = 9818]
 2     lib.stdheader >
 3     tt_content.stdWrap.innerWrap >
 4     tt_content.stdWrap.wrap >
 5     # get away <div class="feEditAdvanced-firstWrapper" ...> if your logged into the backend
 6     styles.content.get.stdWrap >
 7 
 8     pageNewsRSS = PAGE
 9     pageNewsRSS.typeNum = 9818
10     pageNewsRSS.10 < styles.content.get
11     pageNewsRSS.10.select.where = colPos=0 AND list_type = "news_pi1" 
12     pageNewsRSS.10.select {
13         orderBy = sorting ASC
14         max = 1
15     }
16 
17     config {
18         # deactivate Standard-Header
19         disableAllHeaderCode = 1
20         # no xhtml tags
21         xhtml_cleaning = none
22         admPanel = 0
23         metaCharset = utf-8
24         # you need an english locale to get correct rfc values for <lastBuildDate>, ...
25         locale_all = en_EN
26         # define charset
27         additionalHeaders = Content-Type:text/xml;charset=utf-8
28         disablePrefixComment = 1
29         baseURL = http://www.domain.tld/
30         absRefPrefix = http://www.domain.tld/
31     }
32 
33     # set the format    
34     plugin.tx_news.settings.format = xml
35 [global]
Explanation
  • Some wraps of css_styled_content are removed, the same for a possible header because this should not appear in RSS output
  • A new page type with typeNum = 9818 is created and renders the first news plugin which is found in colPos = 0. Therefore it is no problem to have other content elements on the same page.
  • A little configuration is needed to create valid code

RealURL Configuration

To get some nicer URLS, you can add this to your RealURL configuration

 1 'fileName' => array(
 2     'defaultToHTMLsuffixOnPrev' => TRUE,
 3     'index' => array(
 4         'feed.rss' => array(
 5             'keyValues' => array(
 6                 'type' => 9818,
 7             )
 8         ),
 9     ),
10 ),

Explanation
If the normal url would be www.domain.tld/fo/bar/my-newslist.html, the generated url would be www.domain.tld/fo/bar/my-newslist/feed.rss

Add correct tag to the page header

Last optional thing is to add the link to the feed to the normal page. After this, a feed reader can automatically grab your RSS feed url from the source code you can use the dynamic bookmark feature of your browser. Add this to the List.html

1 <n:headerData><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<f:uri.page additionalParams="{type:9818}"/>" /></n:headerData>