[mbtalk]

I may not be describing it properly.

At the top of my site (and others), there is a box that displays the present weather (screenshot attached). The mod simply uses a vbCron job to pull an RSS feed from weather.com and stuffs it into a text file. When the user loads the page, the text file is read, reformated, and inserted into the DIV you see there. To locate the weather info, I just place the variable $weather into my template wherever I want the weather box to appear.

What I am looking for is *exactly* like that, only it reads from a different RSS source and stuffs it into a different variable.

What I'm getting is post after post (rss in post mod) where only the latest data is of any value. If there was a way to make that mod (or vB) delete the outdated posts, it would work fine as a post/thread/accnouncement.

I have considered hacking the weather script to make it work, but I don't have any experience with vB add on and how they integrate.