Please don't mind this stupid question but What is RSS feeds anyway? :ermm:

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS. Basicly content taking from one site, and added to another. If you wanted to place the world news on your home page, would you search and update articles all the time? Naw, you could use an RSS feed to automaticly grab news and updated on your site. And you do nothing.

Sounds nice, I'll install ya mod now to see how is it looks like, thank you for explaining :)

You forgot to say you need to edit the forumhome template to put the variable $rss_news where you want to show the newsfeed. :)

Opps thanks Erwin, i'll update the install the second I get home.

I expanded the hack so members could choose different newsfeeds or add their own... however, my site is too busy for this hack - the constant fopen of RSS feeds killed my server when we reach our peak over 1,000 users online. :) So I've had to remove the hack. Some kind of cache which updates hourly or so would be ideal.

Yes, I agree with Erwin. You should create a table and put syndication's information there.

Is it possible to have more than one newsfeed (2 or more different feeds)?
What do I have to do to have more than one feed?

*installs*

So, are we going to get a version with cache facility, livewire?

Is it possible to integrate the feature that we can set the number of news to fetch? eg the last x news?