[Dontom]

Originally posted by roxics
Three questions.

1. How does RDF differ from RSS? I'm foggy on these XML filetypes. Or are they pretty much the same thing.
### ahem - no idea very foggy here, too

2. Is there a way to get it to just take news from one forum rather then all of them?
### sure, just change the select -statement to below and change 999 to the forum you want to use

SELECT thread.title AS threadtitle, threadid, dateline, postusername, postuserid, thread.replycount, thread.lastposter, views, thread.forumid AS threadforumid, thread.lastpost AS lastpost, votenum, votetotal, forum.title AS forumname FROM thread LEFT JOIN forum ON forum.forumid = thread.forumid WHERE thread.visible = 1 AND thread.open AND forum.forumid = 999 ORDER BY LASTPOST DESC LIMIT 15


3. Why does this hack seem so much simpler then the vbsyndicate hack available?

### vbsyndicate generates afaik a javascript output, which is written periodically to you server

Here's what I'm looking to do. I have my forums located at one URL and my main site at another. I want to get news from one forum onto the main page of my site. I figured RSS/RDF might be the best (only) way. It would also be a bonus if others could get that news on their site.

### this hack should do this perfectly

If I understand this hack correctly that is what this does right?