[Tutorial] Google Sitemap with Ditto

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[neon_eddy]

http://webbake.com/tutorials/modx-cms/google-sitemap-with-ditto

Here ya go.  I need to get commenting and such on the site, but well see.

[Mark]

Excellent tutorial! Please note that if you are using Ditto 2 you don't need the tv prefix and descendentDepth is simply depth.

[neon_eddy]

Edit made :-)

[milicicd]

Do we have your permission to put this tutorial on wiki? Thanx in advance!

[lukwe]

Hi, I tried this Ditto approach after not succeeding with the [[Sitemap]] snippet.

Interestingly I am getting exactly the same errors!

see http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,5754.0.html

[davidm]

Woot great stuff neon-eddy, a great testimony to Ditto's versatility
Sure belongs in the wiki !

[Mark]

@lukwe: Try it without setting the page to be xml.

[lukwe]

@lukwe: Try it without setting the page to be xml.

That's how I get to see the error:
PHP error debug
  Error:    explode() [function.explode]: Empty delimiter.   
  Error type/ Nr.:    Warning - 2   
  File:    /user0/htdocs/modx/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(724) : eval()'d code   
  Line:    195

If I leave it as xml I only get a blank/empty page.

If I make the same Ditto call from a regular HTML page with template and no

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.. stuff, I do get the output.

The Ditto call is: [[Ditto?parents=`15,258`&tpl=`DittoSitemap`&dateSource=`editedon`&display=`all`&sortBy=`createdon`&depth=`4`&showInMenuOnly=`1`]]

the DittoSitemap chunk is:
<url>     
<loc>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</loc>     
<lastmod>[+date+]</lastmod>     
<priority>[+priority+]</priority>
</url>

[neon_eddy]

I plan on writing more good works, and for future things, yes, you have my permission for this and all tutorials, maybe just give me a link to my company / project site http://wavestatic.com / http://webbake.com respectively

To those getting goofy errors make sure your priority template variable looks like this. (attached image)

for debugging purposes I would set the doctype to be html, once is spits out good xml, then switch it.

[lukwe]

I finally got it right; when I pasted from your tutorial I added a closing tag for XML, which is actually not in the sitemap schema.

I also had to put a '&dateFormat=`%Y-%m-%d`' in the Ditto call, 'cause the Google Sitemap checker was complaining...

[neon_eddy]

I'm glad you got it working.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html   this is the spec from google, no closing xml tag .. so I'm lost on that one.

also.. did my date format not work correctly?

[lukwe]

&dateFormat=`%Y-%m-%d` should be good, I probably pasted in something different from other Ditto Calls during my attempts

[frippz]

Really great stuff! Now, can some genious create a function to predict the value for the changefreq tag? 

[neon_eddy]

explain this change frequency thing?  I'm sure we can make it work.

[frippz]

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#xmlTagDefinitions

It's an optional tag, so it may not be very important to implement. I just thought it would be cool if someone was able to do it.