View source for Adding RSS Feeds for NATS's Free Hosted Galleries

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You can create a dynamic feed that automatically publishes affiliate
linkcodes through the NATS adtools page.

== Creating a new Dynamic Feed ==
Log into your RSSdish admin interface and click on the Feeds Admin link
in the list of admin areas. Click the New Feed button.

== Configuring the Database Connection ==
After you create the new feed, RSSDish takes you to the Feeds Admin list
of Dynamic Feeds. Click on the chain-link icon to configure the
database.

After you enter your connection data, select your connection from the
dropdown list. This expands the connection area giving you a status of
your connection. If the connection was made, you'll also see a new area
below that lets you specify which database you want to use with
this connection. Select your database and you'll see a similar status
area for the selected database and a new area below that to select your
table -- this is where the NATS integration makes things easy.

Select the built-in Free Hosted Gallery or FHG query for site id 1 and
RSSdish automatically generates a query for you that selects all
necessary information from the adtools_hosted table and lets you create
dynamic content based on those query results. The image below 
shows you what the query will look like:

[[Image:Rssdish_feeds_list_dyn_db_conn_nats_query_details.jpg|frame|center||||Figure 2.9 - Dynamic Feeds  Select your Table: Built-in Query]]

After you create your query and test it by clicking the submit button,
as seen above, the top of the page displays additional information
about the database connection. This shows you the status information
for all portions of this database connection and the name of each item.
In the image below, the connection is to localhost, the database is
nats, and the table we're using is adtools_hosted you'll also notice the
text Fields NOT Setup, which is RSSdish's way of reminding us that we
haven't clicked the Edit icon and created the feed contents:

[[Image:Rssdish_feeds_list_dyn_details.jpg|frame|center||||Figure 2.10 - Dynamic Feeds  Edit the feed content (pencil icon)]]

== Configuring the Article Content ==
Now that we have established a connection to the database and our query
contents, we can now define the contents of this feed by clicking on the
Edit (pencil) icon as seen in Figure 2.10. Clicking the Edit icon will
display the article details form in Figure 3.1:

[[Image:Rssdish_feeds_list_dyn_contents.jpg|frame|center||||Figure 3.1 - Dynamic Feed Article Contents]]

While the title, link, publish date, and description are totally up to
you and may be anything you wish, the Article Content is important for a
feed of this nature. Using the Available Fields list from the right-hand
side of the page, you can get the URL to each Free Hosted Gallery found
using the query and add the ?nats={$smarty.get.nats} portion to the end.
This part is very important -- it lets RSSdish take the affiliate
specific NATS code from ad tools of type Feed and attach it to the end
of the URL. This lets affiliates get the feed contents with NATS codes
specific to their affiliate account, rather than forcing them to handle
the NATS code generation or insertion themselves. Once you complete
this form, click the Save Setup button at the bottom of the form to save
the feed contents.

[[Image:Rssdish_feeds_list_dyn_completed.jpg|frame|center||||Figure 3.2 - Dynamic Feed Article Completed]]