Mini Mods - RSS Feed Icon for boards

Add a Rss feed icon to each forum on forumhome

Update May 09,2008 : icon before forum s name
open template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
After :

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forum[imageprefix]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" /></td>
	<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
		<div>

Add :

<a href="external.php?forumids=$forum[forumid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rss_small.gif" border="0" width="13" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Subscribe to this feed $forum[title]"></a>

Done
If you update remove the old code
PrintScreen :


Icon next to forum Name :Check Screenshots

open template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
After :

<div style=float:left>
<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>

Add :

<a href="external.php?forumids=$forum[forumid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rss_small.gif" border="0" width="13" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Subscribe to this feed $forum[title]"></a>

Upload this icon to your images/misc

[vixyswillie]

Originally Posted by callumbush

2) If you click on the RSS icon on the forums on my homepage, the feeds are blank (they do not show any threads)?Callum

Have you enabled RSS syndication in admincp?

[callumbush]

yep already done that

[vixyswillie]

Have you enabled Guest permissions to view forums, threads and posts? VB's implementation of RSS is based off Guest permissions. If your forums are closed to Guests, the RSS feed will not have any content to display.

[cemepe]

Hi, i added the code as described and it still doesn't work on my vb 3.7.0. The icon doesn't show before threads. I got rss enabled and the other option under it (forgot it`s name) and still the damn gif refuses to appear. I`ve uploaded the gif in the images/misc directory also.
Did i mess something up ?:erm:

[callumbush]

Originally Posted by vixyswillie

Have you enabled Guest permissions to view forums, threads and posts? VB's implementation of RSS is based off Guest permissions. If your forums are closed to Guests, the RSS feed will not have any content to display.

Hey

Okay I think i've figured out what it is!! If one of my homepage forums has a sub-forum, the RSS feed will not work. However if there is not a sub-forum, then the rss feed works!
....if this is correct then this hack is not very useful can anyone help?

p.s. I have now restricted guests from viewing threads. However it still did not work when they were permitted to view threads.

Callum

[callumbush]

Originally Posted by callumbush

Hey

Okay I think i've figured out what it is!! If one of my homepage forums has a sub-forum, the RSS feed will not work. However if there is not a sub-forum, then the rss feed works!

Okay ignore that, it wasn't true :P

I'm sooo confused

[NeverBored]

Originally Posted by callumbush

Okay ignore that, it wasn't true :P

I'm sooo confused

I looked at your site, and the feeds are all working.

[okhissabigfish]

Does anyone know if this mod can be hidden from guests? I would love to have this shown only to members...otherwise the membership becomes kinda hard to control if a visitor wants to read the posts from the feeds.

[callumbush]

Originally Posted by NeverBored

I looked at your site, and the feeds are all working.

Hiya thanks for looking.

Its still not working for me. I ony see feed content when I click on the icon for the Phone unlocking forum (i.e. the top one). All the rest are blank..

[Sunsetdriver]

Nice hack. However it doesn't prevent hidden links to not be shown in rss.
I'm using hide hack to hide download links to guests but links aren't hidden in RSS.