vb.org Archive - Create RSS feed out of new threads in specific forum

Thanks for that great tip, Chris. Eventually, I found some PHP code to create a file to display the feed as article links. So I called it article.php. I can't remember where I found it so here is the code in full:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php  

$_item = array();  

$_depth = array();  

$_tags = array("dummy");  



function initArray() 

{  

global $_item;  



$_item = array ("TITLE"=>"", "LINK"=>"",  

"DESCRIPTION"=>"", "URL"=>"");  

} 



function startElement($parser, $name){  

global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  



if (($name=="ITEM") ||  

($name=="CHANNEL")  

|| ($name=="IMAGE")) {  

initArray();  

}  

@$_depth[$parser]++;  

array_push($_tags, $name);  

}  



function endElement($parser, $name){  

global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  



array_pop($_tags);  

$_depth[$parser]--;  

switch ($name) {  

case "ITEM":  

echo "<p><a href=\"{$_item['LINK']}\">" . "{$_item['TITLE']}</a><br /> 

{$_item['DESCRIPTION']}</p>\n";  

initArray();  

break;  

}  

} 



function parseData($parser, $text){  

global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  



$crap = preg_replace ("/\s/", "", $text);  

/* is the data just whitespace? 

if so, we don't want it! */  



if ($crap) {  

$text = preg_replace ("/^\s+/", "", $text);  

/* get rid of leading whitespace */  

if (@$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]]) {  

$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] .=  

$text;  

} else {  

$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] =  

$text;  

}  

}  

}  



function parseRDF($file){  

global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  



$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();  

initArray();  



/* Set up event handlers */  

xml_set_element_handler 

($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");  

xml_set_character_data_handler 

($xml_parser, "parseData");  



/* Open up the file */  

$fp = fopen ($file, "r") or die ("Could not  

open $file for input");  



while ($data = fread ($fp, 4096)) {  

if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof 

($fp))) {  

die (sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",  

xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code  

($xml_parser)),  

xml_get_current_line_number 

($xml_parser)));  

}  

}  



fclose($fp);  

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);  

} 



parseRDF 

("http://www.yoursite.com/external.php?type=rss"); 

?>

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