Adding entire page contents to RSS feed?

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Hey folks,

In my RSS feed, I have the following that populates the contents of the feed:

<![CDATA[<?= $item->text()->kt() ?>]]>

This works absolutely fine for the majority of my standard posts, however, I also have a couple of other templates that I use for different types of posts. These are things like book reviews, or links out to other blogs.

Problem is, when I publish one of these “special” posts, the actual book details or link details aren’t parsed into the RSS feed. Now I understand what that’s happening, it’s because I only explicitly call the KirbyText field in my RSS feed, but I’m unsure how I can call the other elements from my “special” posts?

I’ve included my book template below to give you an idea of what it contains:

<div class="book">
        <?php if($image = $page->cover()->toFile()): ?>
        <img class="floatleft" width="185px" src="<?= $image->url() ?>" alt="<?= $image->alt() ?>">
        <?php endif ?>

        <?php if ($info = $page->info()->toObject()): ?>
        <p>
            ✍️ <b>Written by:</b> <?= $info->author() ?><br>
            🏷 <b>Genre:</b> <?= $info->genre() ?><br>
            🗓 <b>Published:</b> <?= $info->published() ?><br>
            📄 <b>Pages:</b> <?= $info->pages() ?><br>
            🧐 <b>My rating:</b> <?= $info->rating() ?>
        </p>
        <?php endif ?> 
                
        <div class="spacer"></div>

        <p markdown="1"><?= $page->summary() ?></p>  
    </div>  

    <?php if($page->amazon()->isNotEmpty()): ?> <a class="button" href="<?= $page->amazon() ?>">Buy on Amazon</a> <?php endif ?> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <?php if($page->kobo()->isNotEmpty()): ?> <a class="button" href="<?= $page->kobo() ?>">Buy on Kobo</a> <?php endif ?>

<?= $page->text()->kirbytext() ?>

Like I said, anything within the kirbytext fiels is rendered, but all the book meta data etc. isn’t.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kev

2

I suppose logically, the RSS feed would need to say “IF the template is “book” or “link” then render the following fields ELSE render kirbytext”. I just don’t know how to do that. :frowning:

3

Which plugin are you using?

4

I’m not using a plugin for it. I made it myself. Here’s my rss.php snippet and the appropriate section from my config:

<?php
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title><?= $title ?></title>
    <link><?= site()->url() ?></link>
    <atom:link href="<?= site()->url() ?>/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <language>en-GB</language>
    <lastBuildDate><?= $posts->first()->published()->toDate('r') ?></lastBuildDate>
    <description><?= $description ?></description>
    <image>
        <url><?= site()->url() ?>/assets/images/favicon.png</url>
        <title><?= $title ?></title>
        <link><?= site()->url() ?></link>
    </image>

    <?php foreach ($posts as $item): ?>
    <item>
      <title><?= Xml::encode($item->title()) ?></title>
      <link><?= Xml::encode($item->cleanurl()) ?></link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false"><?= Xml::encode($item->id()) ?></guid>
      <pubDate><?= $item->published()->toDate('r') ?></pubDate>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<?= $item->text()->kt() ?>]]>

        <![CDATA[<p style="font-size:1.3rem;" class="feed-email-link"><a href="mailto:<?= Xml::encode(site()->email()) ?>?subject=<?= Xml::encode($item->title()) ?>">Reply to this post by email</a></p>]]>
      </description>
    </item>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </channel>
</rss>

// Setup the rss feed
        [
            'pattern'   => ['/feed'],
            'action'    => function () {

                $title          = "Kev Quirk";
                $description    = "Latest posts from my blog";
                $posts          = kirby()->collection('posts')->limit(20);
                
                return new Response(snippet('rss', compact('title', 'description', 'posts') , true), 'application/rss+xml');
            }
        ]
5

$item here is a page object, so you can decide here what you want to render instead of $item->text()->kt()

So

if (in_array($item->template()->name(), ['book', 'link'])) {
 // do stuff
} else {
  // do some other stuff
}
6

Thanks for the reply. I know where to put it in the snippet, I’m just not sure how to build the if statement (if that’s actually what I need) that says “IF the template is “book” or “link” then render the following fields ELSE render kirbytext”.

7

I’ve tried muddling somethign together, but it isn’t working, the unique piece from the page is still ignored in the RSS feed:

<?php if($item->is(page('link')) == true) : ?>
        <![CDATA[
          <div class="link">
            <h1><?= $page->title() ?></h1>
            <span>by <?= $page->author() ?></span>
            <p markdown="1"><?= $page->summary() ?></p>
            <p><a class="dark-button" target="blank" href="<?= $page->link() ?>">Read Post →</a></p>
          </div>
        ]]>
<?php endif ?>

Is there some way to tell Kirby to pull the entire rendered page (IE everything between the article tags? That would make things a lot easier.

8

I posted example code above, did you not see it?

9

Oops sorry, I missed it. I’ll take a look and will revert back, thanks!

10

That worked perfectly, thanks @texnixe