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I would like to add content to my Joomla! site by using an .xml feed that is offered by a company that I am an affiliate of. For example, the company offers products, I add the list of products to my site, if someone buys from my site, I get a commission. Currently, when the company offers an upgraded list of products, I manually add the changes to my site.

The company has an .xml feed available so that affiliates can have the updates done automatically. I thought that I might be able to use the built in newsreader, but the tech support from the company has quickly informed me that an rss feed reader won't do the job. Though it seems to me that an rss feed reader esentially parses .xml?

Has anyone had any experience or advice with having Joomla! display the results of an .xml feed that is not rss?

Thank you 

The newsreader utilises DOMIT RSS which is built to read very specific xml data - xml designated to conform to a syndication standard (e.g. RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0). As such it is very strict in its application



However The Core utilises the DOMIT Parser to read general xml data from files:
http://www.engageinteractive.com/mambo/ ... emid=10137


Suggest you look at the code which allows us to parse xml files that controls the paramters for Components/Modules/Mambots
E.g. look in /modules/ folder at the xml files there.

In fact parsing xml files is crucial to beaing able to install components/modules/mambots/templates into Joomla!

Thank you Rey. I'll follow that link and look closely at the files in the modules folder. I knew that .xml parsing was already a part of Joomla! , so I figured much of what I need is likely already there. Your suggestion should give me more information that will hopefully allow me to put something together.

Let me say too that back a year ago when I first discovered "M" you were always one to help me out with my questions "over there". I'm sure I speak for thousands of Joomla! users when I say that your work on Joomla! and your terrific help is very much appreciated.

mmm... I don't get it. 

Does anyone have a newbie guide to publish XML feeds on the frontend? (without the wrapper)


Thank you,

Basically, you're going to have to write a module or something using one of the multiple XML parsers available for PHP.

Hello,

did anybody found an easy way to integrate XML feed into Joomla ?

I would need to implement a form from a company I'm affialiate to.

thanks for any suggestion

Hi there

This is also something I'm looking for. I've got an XML product feed and want to integrate it into my site.

What's the simplest way of doing this?

HI experts and heroes

pls shed some views on this
any other bridge or cms can do this?

thanks

Has anyone found a solution to parse an XML data feed for affiliate networks?

This is weird there are so many php joomla experts but no one is willing to help.

That website URL mentioned above is hosted by sedo parking and its no help to us.

Please shed some bright light onto this topic.

Thank you

There is no answer to that requirement.
To convert any XML feed to reasonable content, its individual structure has to be converted to some HTML code. Without knowing the actual structure it is impossible to tell more.

Regards,
Niels