Der $objItem->link enthält die Basis URL sollte aber die URL zum NewsEintrag enthalten.

Für die einzelnen Episoden scheint der Link aber nicht nötig zu sein.

Hello,
I'm trying to install contao-news-podcast in Contao 4.13.23 /Php 7.4 with Contao Manager. At the end of the install, I execute database processes. The first ones are ok. Then it asks for
Change field tl_news_podcasts_feed.alias VARCHAR(128) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT '' NOT NULL COLLATE utf8_bin`

I clic on execute, it seems to be ok but it asks it again... and again... and again...

Then I go to the backoffice, create a new podcast but when saving it, I got this error message : Return value of Clickpress\NewsPodcasts\NewsPodcastsBackend::checkFeedAlias() must be an instance of Clickpress\NewsPodcasts\mixed, string returned

What can i do ? Thanks.

auf dem Live Server wird der Feed nicht aktualisiert, wenn man die "Podcast-Feeds" Einstellungen ändert.
Änderungen in den News selber oder das XML neu schreiben per Systemwartung klappen.

Die Parent Elemente der Kategorien sind auch direkt wählbar und werden dann auch ausgegeben.
Also zB "Kids & Family" oder "Sports".

Hier die Aktuelle Liste:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts/id26

Hier ein Beispiel in dem nur die Root Kategorie "Kids & Family" verwendet wird:
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/kidspods-das-podcastportal-f%C3%BCr-kinder/id74190097

$this->podcastUrl contains the url to the feed twice:

<atom:link href="https://elternzeitung.de/share/podcast-hechts-hilfe.xml/share/podcast-hechts-hilfe.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>

itunes:image, also the one from the feed settings, needs to be url encoded to remove spaces.

Wenn man die Feed Einstellungen speichert, wird an die BaseURL ein / angehängt.

So wird zb aus https://elternzeitung.de/podcasts-> https://elternzeitung.de/podcasts/ was dann zu 404 führt.

Add selectable podcast xml to page layouts in section RSS/Atom-Feeds

As https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390 states:

Format the date using the RFC 2822 specifications. For example: Wed, 15 Jun 2019 19:00:00 GMT.

news-podcasts still uses the old RFC822 format. This is only an issue in some podcast readers like Deezer or analytics tools. Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify still recognize the old format.

Mit Update auf Contao 4.13.14 und PHP 8.0 werden "keine-Podcast"-Newslisten nicht mehr ausgegeben: "Keine Nachrichten vorhanden". Wird das News Podcasts-Modul deinstalliert, erscheinen die Beiträge wieder.

Herzliche Grüße, Petra

At the moment all links and line breaks are stripped from the news teaser when being written into the xml.
As per https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390 (under "description") regular links are allowed in the CDATA.
Some podcast apps also render plain-text line breaks in the description tag.

Would be great to see both things in this extension some time.

According to the composer.json, PHP ^7.4 and ^8.0 can be used.
However, some PHP 8 exclusive features are used in this extension.
For example the null safe operator here: https://github.com/clickpress/contao-news-podcasts/blob/master/src/NewsPodcastsBackend.php#L167
Because of this the extension does not work with PHP 7.4, so IMO the version requirement should be changed since PHP 7.4 is EOL anyways.

especially id

      // Add the GUID
          if ($objItem->guid) {
              // Add the isPermaLink attribute if the guid is not a link (see #4930)
              if (0 !== strncmp($objItem->guid, 'http://', 7) && 0 !== strncmp($objItem->guid, 'https://', 8)) {
                  $xml .= '<guid isPermaLink="false">' . $objItem->guid . '</guid>';
              } else {
                  $xml .= '<guid>' . $objItem->guid . '</guid>';
              }
          } else {
              $xml .= '<guid>' . \StringUtil::specialchars($objItem->link) . '</guid>';
          }

Wo kommt denn eigentlich die guid her?
Es sollte entweder hier einfach die ID des News Eintrags stehen, oder der Deeplink zum newseintrag.
Bisher wird hier bei mir die "BAsisURL" aus den Feed Einstellungen verwendet.

Apple beschreibt die guid so:

What's an episode GUID?
Each episode in your podcast has a globally unique identifier (GUID). It’s very important that each episode has a unique, alphanumeric GUID that never changes, even if an episode’s metadata, like title or enclosure URL, do change.

If a GUID is not provided, an episode’s enclosure URL will be used instead. In this case, make sure that an episode’s enclosure URL is also unique and never changes.

In Contao 4.13.35 / PHP 8.1, news list modules as well do not display any news items anymore (regardless of the news template chosen), the archive list module does, however. Upon uninstall, the items are displayed again.

could you also add a content element, that can be used in article or inside the news?
with a select of news that have a podcast added.

Autoadd item images from News,
with transform / crop to aspect ration 1:1 and max 3000x3000px.

for example:

<itunes:image href="http://www.example.com/image3000x3000.png"/>

Is there a way to update the XML not only after saving a news item but also when the "show from" oder "show until" dates are reached? Otherwise if a new news item with a podcast is set to be published in the future with the "show from" functionality the editor has to manually regenerate the XML at the correct time, rendering "show from" unnecessary.

I know this might be a tricky one, but maybe a workaround might be to be able trigger the XML update via a cronjob? Otherwise disable the "show from/until" fields when a podcast is added to the news item so no one runs into that trap?