[yj_enquirer]

Hi KW802..

Firstly a great hack.. absolutely superb.. and succesfully installed...and minimal install time.. (though I spent most time trying to find out how to view the RSS feeds as I did not read the install instructions correctly and realise I had to point to /cv_rss_feeds.php... doh!)

But I have reached to the same issue as Bashy..

Originally Posted by bashy

So, Why would this show as a blank page for me when i am admin, it shows a blank page on the pages that guests cant see, or did you explain that i am that thick i couldnt understand it lol

Is there a fix or is it as is? Cause i will assume that all members will get this blank page

in my forum.. guests are allowed to view the forum, but not the threads within it.. members have different permissions to view forums based on their usergroups.

It does make sence to have the RSS link only able to get the posts based on the view of guests, else guests cud hijak the forums links and post it on an external RSS reader and get the brief posts information that they don't have access within the actual forum itself.

Q1) However, what I was wondering.. is it possible to limit information of what gets displayed in the RSS readers, i.e. perhaps just the first 10 characters only.. perhaps just limiting it to the title header only of a new post made in the forum?

Q2) Does the number of forums have anything to do with parsing of RSS.. the reason I ask is because, there are over 100 forums where I am trying to implement this Hack...

Doing it on forumID = 99.. i.e. passing through

http://www.XXX.co.uk/external.php?forumids=99

works fine and I can post that to RSS external readers

But if I try

http://www.XXX.co.uk/external.php?forumids=157

I get nothing.. external RSS readers are not able to acknoweldge this as a valid RSS code. Entering the site through the RSS validation service I get error messages as...

line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: no element found

and

Feeds should not be served with the "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" media type

Thanks..


EDIT:
Ok.. I think if this hack is used together with Abe1's hack regarding External Data Provider Usergroup / Cookie setting it should allow RSS feed based on which usergroup you define within the Exteral Data Provider option in ACP as it will be based on cookies.