how to change autodiscovery links to point to feedburner

mrmachine - September 6, 2005 - 23:03

i haven't seen a simple answer to this question anywhere:

from where are the drupal html headers generated, specifically the autodiscovery URL?

i need to change this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/feed" />

to this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/machinehasnoagenda" />

i guess this means replacing a variable with the static information above - but i've searched relentlessly and can't find where to do this ... shouldn't it be set in xtemplate file (i got the code above from "view source" in firefox)?

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how to change autodiscovery links to point to feedburner SOLVED

mrmachine - September 7, 2005 - 22:04

i haven't seen a simple answer to this question anywhere

well, here it is:

1. open modules/node.module in your editor of choice.

2. at around line 1619, find this code:

  if (db_num_rows($result)) {
    drupal_add_link(array('rel' => 'alternate',
                          'type' => 'application/rss+xml',
                          'title' => 'RSS',
                          'href' => url('node/feed', NULL, NULL, TRUE)));

and replace it with something like this:

  if (db_num_rows($result)) {
    drupal_add_link(array('rel' => 'alternate',
                          'type' => 'application/rss+xml',
                          'title' => 'machinehasnoagenda - blog',
                          'href' => ('http://feeds.feedburner.com/machinehasnoagenda')));

5. you're done!

this works for me. i have no idea if this is the proper way to do it.

http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com

What about multi-site setups

Zach Harkey - November 23, 2005 - 03:20

What about multi-site setups where many domains share the same module? I can't hardcode the feedburner href because all the sites will inherit this.

-zach
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harkey design

Here is another solution

Zach Harkey - November 23, 2005 - 04:11

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.

-zach
------------------------
harkey design

Works very well, thanks

danubetech - February 19, 2006 - 18:43

This works great. For those you new to PHP (or rusty like me) here's a link on how to get this to work for mult-sites using arrays:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php#60628

Yes Great Answer

xybermatthew - February 2, 2007 - 05:20

This worked like a charm in v 5.x! Now I just need to figure out how to get the rss feed link onto all pages.

rss feed link on all pages

drupal-is-OK - February 12, 2007 - 14:42

Any luck with this? i've not seen how to change the rss logo a tythe bottom of my menu on each page to display my feedburner rss vs. my drupal one

uofl forum

Multiple feeds?

tuti - March 11, 2007 - 16:49

What if you have different feed for different pages?

How do you add another internal drupal feed link that I want to replace with another feedburner link to that feed?