View Full Version : Add RSS button at bottom of page
MarkyLeonard
10-18-2005, 10:00 PM
Adds an https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ button to the bottom of the page (next to the "top" hyperlink)
1. Upload RSS.GIF to yourforum/images/misc
2. Admin CP > Styles and Templates > Style Manager > All Style Options
In "footer", find :
<a href="#top" onclick="self.scrollTo(0, 0); return false;">$vbphrase[top]</a>
Below it, add :
<a href="external.php?type=rss" target="_blank"> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rss.gif" width="36" height="14" border="0"></a>
Done!
Snake
10-19-2005, 09:39 PM
You could have made this as a tutorial. It's way too simple to add an RSS button in a template.
MarkyLeonard
10-19-2005, 09:44 PM
I'm not experienced enough to start teaching people via tutorials lol!
Snake
10-19-2005, 09:52 PM
Then why go, create and release hacks when you don't even know what you're doing?
MarkyLeonard
10-19-2005, 10:08 PM
Then why go, create and release hacks when you don't even know what you're doing?
I know what I'm doing enough to release this mod which definitely works. Jeez - negativity! It might teach people about external.php and stylevars anyway.
If one person finds this mod useful, it's done it's job :cheeky:
Jenta
10-19-2005, 10:35 PM
Wrong forum. It's a template mod.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=155
Wrong forum. It's a template mod.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=155
He's uploading an image, eh?
CompuJonathan
10-20-2005, 01:26 AM
ahh! Thanks Mark. You saved me the time of looking into how to do this. I've been thinking of adding a RSS button to my footer for some time now but haven't taken the time to figure it out.
Cheers!
/me clicks install
MissKalunji
10-20-2005, 07:37 AM
Thanks Mark! perfect been thinkin of thi for a long time
MarkyLeonard
10-20-2005, 09:28 AM
Glad its of help!
bullseye17
10-20-2005, 12:57 PM
for some reason, the RSS button will not show up on my forum...
Wired1
10-20-2005, 01:12 PM
Do you have RSS enabled on your forum?
MarkyLeonard
10-20-2005, 02:27 PM
Go to http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/FORUM/images/misc.gif to check if the image is in the right place?
Gizmo5h1t3
10-20-2005, 03:18 PM
Then why go, create and release hacks when you don't even know what you're doing?
you might want to start taking stock of why all your posts are negative aftermath...jeez man,every time your name pops up, its critizing something.....u never seem to have a good word tosay bout anything!!
chill man, markys done this to help....read down the thread, someones actually grateful for it....u might wanna take a leaf out of his book....
i for one am glad he`s posted it...so as he saysin his post....jobs a good un!!
Pramodinfo
10-20-2005, 04:39 PM
*clicks install*
XFGHIA
10-21-2005, 05:49 AM
this might be off the hack topic, but what exactly does RSS do? i installed this and when i click the button it comes up with a blank page
MarkyLeonard
10-21-2005, 10:33 AM
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29</a>
ryuuchida
10-23-2005, 02:44 AM
A simple and nice hack. :)
>>installs
Carl Anderson
10-23-2005, 03:56 AM
Click Install
MarkyLeonard
10-24-2005, 06:05 PM
If people preferred RDF they could of course use http://www.lavinya.net/phpBB2/rdf.gif as the image, and
<a href="external.php?type=rdf" target="_blank"> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rdf.gif" width="36" height="14" border="0"></a>
as the code
or....
<a href="external.php?type=rss" target="_blank"> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rss.gif" width="36" height="14" border="0"></a>
<a href="external.php?type=rdf" target="_blank"> <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rdf.gif" width="36" height="14" border="0"></a>
for both.
totenmaske
10-28-2005, 04:43 AM
< Clicks INSTALL >
This saved me a bunch of time figuring out where to add the image tags.
Does anyone know the if/then statements that would allow us to specify the RSS feed for a specific forum/thread when the member is in that forum/thread?
Also the buttons look very nice on the left side of the forum if you aren't using the languafe or skin chooser boxes ;)
MarkyLeonard
10-28-2005, 05:36 PM
< Clicks INSTALL >
Does anyone know the if/then statements that would allow us to specify the RSS feed for a specific forum/thread when the member is in that forum/thread?
You could almost have a blogging system then, if you had a hidden forum set up!
totenmaske
10-29-2005, 05:17 PM
You could almost have a blogging system then, if you had a hidden forum set up!
Almost! - but vB needs these features like these if it's going to maintain it's edge as the best forum software out there!
donnacha
10-30-2005, 09:12 PM
Here's a weird problem:
I have RSS enabled...
I have confirmed that the rss.gif is in the right image folder...
The change to the footer is showing up when I view the source...
BUT... when I load a forum, the RSS image simply doesn't appear.
In Firefox, while the page is loading, an empty image placeholder appears after the "Top" link and, if you click on it fast enough, that does bring you to the RSS version of the page but, once the page loads, the placeholder disappears and nothing replaces it, nothing is left to click - the page looks just as it did before although, as I've said, the source code shows the change.
In IE, the empty placeholder remains after the page has loaded and, again, you can click on that to go to the RSS version.
Any ideas about why the image isn't appearing? I have downloading the image itself back down from the server and it seems fine.
MarkyLeonard
10-30-2005, 09:49 PM
Here's a weird problem:
I have RSS enabled...
I have confirmed that the rss.gif is in the right image folder...
The change to the footer is showing up when I view the source...
BUT... when I load a forum, the RSS image simply doesn't appear.
In Firefox, while the page is loading, an empty image placeholder appears after the "Top" link and, if you click on it fast enough, that does bring you to the RSS version of the page but, once the page loads, the placeholder disappears and nothing replaces it, nothing is left to click - the page looks just as it did before although, as I've said, the source code shows the change.
In IE, the empty placeholder remains after the page has loaded and, again, you can click on that to go to the RSS version.
Any ideas about why the image isn't appearing? I have downloading the image itself back down from the server and it seems fine.
If you've got Adblock installed on your Firefox it could be the problem - it got rid of my New Thread button because it had "ad" in it!
donnacha
10-30-2005, 10:42 PM
If you've got Adblock installed on your Firefox it could be the problem - it got rid of my New Thread button because it had "ad" in it!
Interesting. In this case, though, Adblock hasn't been installed in Firefox and IE, obviously, has no such defenses.
I thought it might be some sort of Norton problem but I disabled the firewall and it made no difference.
Is anyone else having the same problem?
Thanks for replying and thanks for providing this.
MarkyLeonard
11-01-2005, 10:04 PM
More than welcome!
Try hotlinking from www.imageshack.us (bottom link out of the lot)
More than welcome!
Try hotlinking from www.imageshack.us (bottom link out of the lot)
hmm can u modify it...by adding(enable xml)
xml,my yahoo & my msn button
??
hello...looks for some modification
u added rss button....that linked with forum...
can u modifi it?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
can u add this button too ? so user can add rss in there own blog unless they r not on the site..
thnx
TheBlackPoet
05-14-2006, 05:10 PM
hey, i thought this was a very useful addition to my forum.. i appreciate it very much!!!!
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