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Allenport
09-30-2009, 03:21 AM
Hey I was wondering if anyone knew how to edit the RSS output from the forums?

http://www.jjpbphotos.com/
Under News Feed I would like to be able to edit the Info and format it better. Is this possible?

Thanks

JJ

Example
How it is now:

{Thread title}
Forum:{name of forum}PostedBy:{username}
Post Time:{Date} at {time}
{Random date i have yet to figure out}


How I would like it

{Thread title}
<b>Posted by:</b> {username}
<b>Posted:</b> {Date} <b>at</b> {time}


--------------- Added 1254285527 at 1254285527 ---------------

I saw the addon posted below and that is EXACTLY what im looking for however it was archived can anyone help me out where the RSS Table is formatted in "external.php"

Lynne
09-30-2009, 03:43 AM
You've used some modification to output that information onto that page. You need to ask this question in that modification thread - they will tell you how the feed is formatted and where you should go to edit it.

Allenport
09-30-2009, 03:48 AM
You've used some modification to output that information onto that page. You need to ask this question in that modification thread - they will tell you how the feed is formatted and where you should go to edit it.
Thats just an RSS feed reader. I know for sure that the output context is in the "/forums/external.php" part of VB im just trying to figure out the formatting (PHP Noob here) Im pretty sure its this line though"


$output = '';
$headers = array();
if ($vbulletin->GPC['type'] == 'JS')
{ // javascript output
$output = "
function thread(threadid, title, poster, threaddate, threadtime)
{
this.threadid = threadid;
this.title = title;
this.poster = poster;
this.threaddate = threaddate;
this.threadtime = threadtime;
}
";
$output .= "var threads = new Array(" . sizeof ($threadcache) . ");\r\n";
if (!empty($threadcache))
{
foreach ($threadcache AS $threadnum => $thread)
{
$thread['title'] = addslashes_js(htmlspecialchars_uni($thread['prefix_plain']) . $thread['title']);
$thread['poster'] = addslashes_js($thread['postusername']);
$output .= "\tthreads[$threadnum] = new thread($thread[threadid], '$thread[title]', '$thread[poster]', '" . addslashes_js(vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $thread['dateline'])) . "', '" . addslashes_js(vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $thread['dateline'])) . "');\r\n";
}


I just need to figure out how to add HTML context to that <b></b> and <br>'s

Lynne
09-30-2009, 03:55 AM
external.php is the feed for the vbulletin site - it simply sends out info, it doesn't format it.

I looked at your page source and the News Feed in that page is from this line:
<p><script type="text/javascript" src="http://output73.rssinclude.com/output?type=js&id=35581&hash=f4530fc18a9f396df35a762a8d231105"></script>That is what you need to edit.

Allenport
09-30-2009, 03:57 AM
Darn ok (I havn't found a RSS feed display that is easily configurable and im pretty new to using the feeds.)