If anyone wants to see this in action, here's a site using my news feed:

http://www.iooi.co.uk/otherforums.php

I have one that I made that is connected to the submit button, instead of cronjob - basically rebuilds the text file that the syndication comes off of everytime that a new thread is posted in the particular forum that I have syndicated.

Output is in rss and a couple of different formats for some scrollers. If there is interest I will look back and post the code - actually uses very little code.

With absolutely no changes on my end, this just stopped working. I'm getting the error:

'Expected hexadecimal digit'

Any idea what caused this? Could it be a certain character in one of the thread titles?

Edit: Never mind - I found the problem! Someone had put a \ in one of the thread titles. Can this problem be accounted for and fixed?

$title=$latest["title"];

change to

$title=addslashes($latest["title"]);

Excellent! Works like a charm. Thanks!

I tried to install activefeed.php and used the dump command with lynx with telnet. Nothing happenned. I tried newsfeed.php and when running from the browser, it writes on the .js file.

But I need to feed only certain forums (possible with activefeed but not with newsfeed)

how did you do that?

can't access start file http://sitename/newsfeed.php

If my forumz isn't on a dedicated server, will I still be able to use a cronjob?

Perchance this may facilitate your tasks ? Fake Cron
Subsequently an external alternative ? Cronservice