Chooseable External Output

[Slynderdale]

If you have External data enabled in the options, you can have xml and rss feeds for your forums. By default, the ost previews strip all bbcodes and only show portions of the text. This hack lets you choose how you want the output to be like.

The bbcode, smiles, and html output depends on the forum settings of that post.

The choices are:
Default: Short preview with no BBcodes.
1: Full text with no bbcodes
2: Full text with bbcodes

These can be selected via the browser query string.
Example:
http://www.yourforum.com/external.php?type=RSS2&format=2

In forum/root/external.php find:

$permissions = cache_permissions($bbuserinfo);


under it add:

$format = iif($_GET['format'],intval($_GET['format']),0);


then find:

echo "\t\t<content:encoded><![CDATA[". htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode($thread['preview'], false, true), $vboptions['thread'])) ."]]></content:encoded.\r\n";


and replace it with:

if (function_exists('format_external_text'))
{
$thread['preview'] = format_external_text($thread['preview'],$format,$thread['forumid']);
}
else
{
$thread['preview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode($thread['preview'], false, true)));
}
echo "\t\t<content:encoded><![CDATA[". $thread['preview'] ."]]></content:encoded>\r\n";


If you have the PHP external feed hack installed;
Found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59575

Find:

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'PHP')
{ // PHP output

and under it add:

foreach ($threadcache AS $key => $thread)
{
if (function_exists('format_external_text'))
{
$thread['preview'] = format_external_text($thread['preview'],$format,$thread['forumid']);
}
else
{
$thread['preview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode($thread['preview'], false, true)));
}
$threadcache[$key]['preview'] = $thread['preview'];
}


close and save external.php

Now in file forum/root/includes/functions_external.php find:

?>


and above it add:

function format_external_text($text,$format,$forumid=0) {
$format = intval($format);
$forumid = intval($forumid);
if ($format<=0)
{
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode($text, false, true)));
}
else if ($format == 1)
{
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(strip_bbcode($text, false, true));
}
else
{
require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
$text = parse_bbcode($text,$forumid);
}
return $text;
}


Thats all.

[johnnyb]

Thanks! :)

[newmomsforum]

Hi, should this work for the latest release as I'm looking for something that will output the full text of the post via rss not just a preview? :)