Show RSS Feed Icon in each forum

So I wanted to add an image link to each forum for its unique RSS feed. This would allow people to subscribe to their favorite forums with their favorite News Reader instead of email. It would always be up to date and accurate.

There are three steps to doing this.

First, I decided I needed a small plugin to determine if RSS was turned on within the forumdisplay template. Go to your plugin manager and add the following code to the "forumdisplay_start" plugin.

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['externalrss'])
{
   $show['rss'] = true;
} 


Next we will be editing the forumdisplay template itself.

Find:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title]</span></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="forumtools" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_forumtools" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[forum_tools]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("forumtools"); </script></td>
    <if condition="$show['forumsearch']">
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="forumsearch" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_forumsearch" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[search_this_forum]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("forumsearch"); </script></td>
    </if>
</tr>
</table>

And replace with:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title]</span></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="forumtools" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_forumtools" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[forum_tools]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("forumtools"); </script></td>
    <if condition="$show['forumsearch']">
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="forumsearch" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_forumsearch" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[search_this_forum]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("forumsearch"); </script></td>
    </if>
    <if condition="$show['rss']">
<td class="tcat"><a href="external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/feed_icon.png" height="14" width="14" alt="Feed Icon" title="Subscribe to $foruminfo[title]'s RSS Feed"></a></td>
    </if>
    </tr>
</table>

Finally the third step is to upload the attached image to represent your feed. If your site isn't set up to allow IE to view transparent backgrounds in PNG images, you will probably want to convert the image to a GIF format matted to your background.

Distibuted under the "Wayne License". You may modify to suit your needs, No Attribution Necessary, Redistribution allowed on sites which can verify legitimate vBulletin License Holders only.

[coffee]

Thank you Wayne Luke.

[ShackMaster]

I'm having this problem in my Sub-forums...

[Al-Fateh]

Originally Posted by Zia

Hello dear wane..

its nice...tryst u can modify it.. the rss buton now showing for each forum top-right side..

can u add few more button..



thhere are few buttons who alloes rss...

in the footer of the page..in every page ..it will be linked with the forums..


Please consider it...thnakx

i would also like to know how to add this

how do i generate feeds for the forums as well...

thanks

[epicbear]

I modified the if statement in the plugin to selectively eliminate the feed icon from private forums where no feed would exist anyway, in order to avoid confusion among my users.

if ($vbulletin->options['externalrss'] and $foruminfo[forumid]!='20' and $foruminfo[forumid]!='33')
{
   $show['rss'] = true;
}

Anyone know if I can list multiple forumids in one argument?

$foruminfo[forumid]!='20,33'

didn't work.

[almukmin]

I can't install this.

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/global13/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3537) : eval()'d code on line 41

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

Anyone kind enough?

[Zia]

Originally Posted by Al-Fateh

i would also like to know how to add this

how do i generate feeds for the forums as well...

thanks

Please see there.......

Add Feed To MyYahoo, Msn, Google & Blogline Button In Every Forum

[almukmin]

I still can't install this, can someone please help?

[almukmin]

It works now, I forgot to enable the external RSS and XML feed in VB Options.

[leakmob]

i can't find the forumdisplay_start in the plugin manager?

[SCI]

Thanks for the Mod. I installed it.

I was wondering why the whole post is displayed in my rss feeds rather than just a snippet of it like I see everywhere else?

Also, how do I set the url's in the rss feeds to not have &goto=newpost at the end of every thread url.