Anybody modified rss20.template for iTunes?

[emasters]

Before I spend a few hours on this, has anyone modified templates/rss/rss20.templates to incorporate the iTunes tags needed to register feeds with the iTunes store? I've got a couple of podcasters on http://www.classcaster.org who've decided they want to be world famous:) If nobody's done this I'll finish it up over the weekend and share.

Thanks,
Elmer

[phunkphorce]

No, or at least, not that I am aware of.

What sort of extra tags are needed?

[emasters]

Specs are here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html. It looks pretty straight forward to make the necessary changes to the template. Other aggregators will just ignore the iTunes tags. I'll work on it this afternoon.

Thanks,
Elmer

[emasters]

Here's a first pass. Not much change, but should be the bare minimum to get accepted by Apple. It even validates...

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="{$locale->getCharset()}"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="{$url->getUrl("/styles/rss.css")}" type="text/css"?>
<rss version="2.0"
   xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
>
{$locale->setLocale("en_UK")}
<channel>
  {assign var="blogAuthor" value=$blog->getOwnerInfo()}
  <ttl>60</ttl>
  <title>{$blog->getBlog()|escape}</title>
  <link>{$url->blogLink()}</link>
  <language>en-us</language>
  <description>{$blog->getAbout()|escape}</description>
  <pubDate>{$locale->formatDate($now, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %O")}</pubDate>
  <managingEditor>{$blogAuthor->getEmail()}</managingEditor>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:category text="Education">
     <itunes:category text="Higher Education" />
  </itunes:category>
  <itunes:keywords>Classcaster, podcast, legal education, {$blogAuthor->getFullName()}</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:author>{$blogAuthor->getFullName()}</itunes:author>
  <itunes:owner>
    <itunes:name>{$blogAuthor->getFullName()}</itunes:name>
    <itunes:email>{$blogAuthor->getEmail()}</itunes:email>
  </itunes:owner>
  <generator>http://www.lifetype.net</generator>
  {foreach from=$posts item=post}
  <item>
   <title>{$post->getTopic()|escape}</title>
   <description>
    {$post->getText()|escape}
   </description>
   <link>{$url->postPermalink($post)}</link>
   <comments>{$url->postPermalink($post)}</comments>
   <guid>{$url->postPermalink($post)}</guid>
   {assign var="postOwner" value=$post->getUserInfo()}
   <dc:creator>{$postOwner->getUsername()|escape}</dc:creator>
   {foreach from=$post->getCategories() item=category}   
    <category>{$category->getName()|escape}</category>
   {/foreach}
   {assign var="postDate" value=$post->getDateObject()}
   <pubDate>{$locale->formatDate($postDate, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %O")}</pubDate>
   <source url="{$url->rssLink("rss20")}">{$blog->getBlog()|escape}</source>
   {foreach from=$post->getArticleResources() item=resource}
    {** please uncomment the line below if you'd like to server everything but images, instead of
        only audio and video **}
    {** if !$resource->isImage() **}
    {if $resource->isSound() || $resource->isVideo()}
     <enclosure type="{$resource->getMimeType()}" length="{$resource->getFileSize()}" url="{$url->resourceDownloadLink($resource)}" />
    {/if}
   {/foreach}
  </item>
  {/foreach}
</channel>
</rss>





[emasters]

Just an update. The changes I made and posted above work. If you use the changed template it generates the right itunes extensions for RSS2. If you search itunes for Classcaster you can see the podcasts from our Lifetype install.