How to setup Feedburner and drupal5 ??

This thread:
http://drupal.org/node/30534#comment-70874

Has a suggestion to fix this at the theme level:

Here is another solution that can be done at the template level.

In your page.tpl.php, replace

<?php
print $head
?>

with

<?php
print str_replace('http://example.com/node/feed', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/example', $head)
?>

I think it's better because it doesn't require hacking node.module and also works for multi-site setups.

Is this the best solution or is there a way of overriding the original setting in a cleaner way of doing what I was looking for in my original post above?

Thanks
Steve

Hi Steve

If you change the autodiscovery feed links to point directly to the FeedBurner versions you are basically handing over the keys to FeedBurner. If you later for some reason wish/need to change to either another statistics provider or maybe pure Drupal you will need to get all your subscribers to change the URI they are fetching the feed on.

Another way is to have your subscribers subscribe to the Drupal feed. In other words the URI pointing at your site. In order to still use the FeedBurner version of the feed you then need to temporarily redirect (HTTP code 302) the Drupal URI to the FeedBurner URI.

The effect is that an aggregator will try to fetch the feed via the Drupal URI. It then gets a 302 redirect to the FeedBurner URI. Since it is an temporary redirect (302) it will keep the Drupal URI, and then fetch the feed via the FeedBurner URI. A side effect is that you will get a log entry in the server access logs with the code 302, so you will also get information about the feed in your site log based statistics.

Using the paths you mention above add these lines to your .htaccess file above the Drupal rules:

The rules above means:

If the request is for "/feed" and the user agent is not "FeedBurner" then temporarily redirect (the "R=temp" parameter) to "http://feeds.steveparks.co.uk/SteveParks" and stop applying (the "L" parameter) the rules in the .htaccess file.

To stop the redirect and use the Drupal feed you just comment out or remove the rules in the htaccess and the aggregators will instead fetch the feed directly from your site. No resubscription or editing the feed URI needed by the subscribers.

To change the behavior of all the feed icons you will need to overrule the following theme function in your themes template.php file:

theme_feed_icon | Drupal API
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/theme_feed_icon

You could basically check the $url supplied to see if it is ok (business as usual) or one that should not be shown (return empty string).

Now Drupal generates a lot of feeds. For instance every taxonomy term page has its own feed. These won't be tracked by FeedBurner unless of cause you create a FeedBurner version of each and every feed and make a redirect for each.

You could ignore this issue or change the autodiscovery link in your template to always point at the main feed (the Drupal URI).

To change the autodiscovery link and/or remove the autodiscovery link to the commentrss feed ... hmm ... that is a bit tricky ... they are set by:

drupal_add_feed | Drupal API
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/drupal_add_feed

which calls:

drupal_add_link | Drupal API
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/drupal_add_link

Unfortunately there is no theme function to do something similar as with theme_feed_icon above. You will need to change/remove the link from $head (which contains more than just the feed links) in your page.tpl.php (or in template.php before passing control to page.tpl.php, see: Making additional variables available to your templates | drupal.org @ http://drupal.org/node/16383) using some form of string replace using regexp.

I hope this helps :-)

Regards,

Christian Larsen

http://drupal.org/project/feedburner