Copyright notice in RSS feed

[Trench]

Does anyone know how to add a copyright notice to the RSS feed to prevent content theft?

[garvinhicking]

I haven'T looked, is there any specified "copyright" element for RSS?

You could edit the rss.php file, where the headers of a RSS file are easily patchable. Or you could patch the syndication plugin to include a new string, there are some examples of other fields.

Regards,
Garvin

[Trench]

I want to edit the rss.php file to include a copyright notice after each entry but I'm not sure where to put it on the rss.php file.

[garvinhicking]

You can hack this by opening include/functions_entries.inc.php.

Search for the function "serendipity_printEntries_rss". Search this code:

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            // Embed a link to extended entry, if existing
            if ($fullFeed) {
                $entry['body'] .= ' ' . $entry['extended'];
            } elseif ($entry['exflag']) {
                $ext = '<br /><a href="' . $guid . '#extended">' . sprintf(VIEW_EXTENDED_ENTRY, htmlspecialchars($entry['title'])) . '</a>';
            } else {
                $ext = '';
            }

After those lines, add this:

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$ext .= '<br />(Article copyright (C) by XXX)';

Regards,
Garvin

[Trench]

Works perfectly. You're a genius.