Adding RSS, My Yahoo and XML buttons

[Andy R]

Excuse me if this has been asked or discussed before. I did some searching and could not find anything.

I want to add the proper buttons to my site so members can easily click on them to add to their default RSS reader, My Yahoo, etc...

On the home page I can just use the regualr http://yoursite.com/forums/external.php?type=rss link but on the subforum pages I need to have the link pull an rss threads for just that forum.

Has anyone seen a tutorial on how to do this? If not, a beginers guide on how to do this would be great. Maybe even an option in vB to turn on/off these icons from the admincp >> vB Options >> External Data interface would be real nice.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer here...

[CompuJonathan]

Pulled from FAQ:

The administrator may have enabled RSS syndication, this allows you to view newly created threads in guest viewable forums without visiting the board.

The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:

RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/external.php?type=rss
RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2
To add this to MyYahoo click here.

The forums to which this applies can also be limited to specific guest viewable forums by adding another paramater to the URL containing the forumids as follows:
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123

If you would like the content to be generated for multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

[Sooner95]

need a mod to move this thread to proper forum...