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good2laugh
06-18-2006, 01:33 PM
If you are getting a sports feed, or football feed. But you only wanted say news articles which had something about George Best in them.. how can I set it so I don't call everything that had just the word George or just the word Best in..

I have 3.6 beta 2 on my test forum, but I'm not sure how to format George Best, Is it simply a case of putting speech tags " ....." around George Best or not having a space between George and Best

I just want to make sure that if for example George BUSH went and watched a football game, that I wouldn't get a news feed about that, simply because of the shared first name. Or that I didn't get every football feed with the word Best in it.

Does anyone even understand what I'm waffling on about?

TIA

noppid
06-18-2006, 02:45 PM
Some feeds are fixed content. Other feeds, like yahoo, you submit a search term and I think ya can use advanced search like web searching by formatting the url properly. (ie. include and exclude terms.)

I did not look at the vB 3.6 rss implmentation. Since it's one of my biggest projects for several years now, I think I'll go look at it and see what they did.

good2laugh
06-18-2006, 06:58 PM
Some feeds are fixed content. Other feeds, like yahoo, you submit a search term and I think ya can use advanced search like web searching by formatting the url properly. (ie. include and exclude terms.)

I did not look at the vB 3.6 rss implmentation. Since it's one of my biggest projects for several years now, I think I'll go look at it and see what they did.

I'll take a look at the advanced search thing, don't really know what I'm doing with RSS but no harm in playing on a test board.... I guess not too much can go wrong ;)