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Administrator Manual

Warning

Breaking Change: With the support of TYPO3 7.6 the whole extension has changed from an pi-based to an extbase extension. With this comes a change in the database records. Be aware of that before you install the extension! The feature, that allowed to filter pages with categories has temporarily removed , too.

Installation

  • Install extension form4_pages_rss in the extension manager.
  • adjust the configuration the extension in the extconf
  • Install the static template in the the root template.
  • Create a sysfolder.
  • Create the necessary feeds there.
  • Set in the constants RootpageId and Default storage Pid and other settings like needed.

ExtConf Settings

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Description:

  • Excluded doktypes in selectbox of a RSS entry (comma separated)
    • Enter comma seperated List of the allowed doktypes here.
  • List of page fields a RSS feed can be sorted by
    • Comma seperated list of page database field which can be used for sorting the rss feed items.
  • Encoding of a RSS feed
    • should be utf-8 by default - but for rare occasions it might be necessary to set it to another encoding.
  • Maximum width of the feed image
    • Limit for the width of images in the rss feed.
  • Maximum height of the feed image
    • Limit for the height of images in the rss feed.

Constants

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Description:

  • Maximum number of items for a RSS feed
    • limits the number of shown actual RSS items in a feed
  • Rootpage ID
    • must be set to generate a correct absolute link for the rss feeds. You can set it to a root page or page of your own choice. Default this is id 1. So please make sure to check this and set for e.g. your own root-id!
  • EntryLevel for including rss feed statically on that level of the site and all links generated in subpages
    • sets from which level of the site you will see the link(s) to the rss feeds in your page.
  • Field of a page used for render the rss items title.
    • the name of the database field (not that of the model field if you might have one !) that will be used for the title of the rss item.
  • Field of a page used for render the rss items description.
    • the name of the database field (not that of the model field if you might have one !) that will be used for the description of the rss item.
  • Field of a page used for render the rss items author. Should be a email adress.
    • the name of the database field (not that of the model field if you might have one !) where the email adress of an author can be found.
  • Field of a page used for render the rss items pubDate.
    • the name of the database field (not that of the model field if you might have one !) that will be used for the date of the rss item.
  • Default storage PID
    • the sysfolder that contains the rss-feed configurations.