Linking RSS feeds in profile

[achtungbaby]

Hopefully this request hasn't been submitted before and I just missed it...

I'd like to be able to allow site members to link to the RSS feeds of their personal blog sites, and in doing so, would display the last five or 10 entries of their blog on their main profile page.

[achtungbaby]

*bump*

[eva01_]

wouldn't you just be able to add in an extra profile field and have it be called RSS?

[achtungbaby]

Originally Posted by eva01_

wouldn't you just be able to add in an extra profile field and have it be called RSS?

No, sorry for not being more clear...here goes:

I'd like to give members the option of displaying their own RSS feeds on their profile page. Within their user control panel, they would have the option of inputting the url to their desired feed and have 5 of the most recent titles displayed.

Friendster offers this capability now...might be easier to understand by checking that out...

[EricaJoy]

*mega bump* I would like to have this very thing, however, I'm lost on how to implement it. anybody?

*Edit* Okay this looks like a job for CaRP but I'm still lost on the implementation. Anybody?

[jugo]

you mayw ant to start here:

http://WWW.FEEDDIGEST.COM

It does a greap job of turning RSS feeds into basic includes or links.

[EricaJoy]

ehhhh i looked into the feeddigest thing but i dont want to force my members to sign up for that.

[EricaJoy]

i guess there are no takers for this?

[php]

arent you looking for something thats similar to the latest threads of forumhome but to display latest blogs instead. If so this is easy enough to edit. Most of the code is in external.php

[EricaJoy]

no i'm looking for what is stated in the 4th post...the ability for my users to specify an RSS feed that will be displayed in their profiles.

okay i've gotten so far as this. mind you i don't know a thing about making hacks for vB and very slim to none about PHP coding.

1) I downloaded and installed carp on my site.
2) I created a new Single Line Text Box user profile field for users to input the rss feed location. I'll call it "fieldX".

This is the code CaRP says it needs to display an RSS feed in any php file:

 <?php
require_once '/path/to/carp/carp.php';
// Add any desired configuration settings below this line using "CarpConf" and other functions
CarpCacheShow('http://www.rssfeedlocation.com/rss.xml');
?>

I think I want:

 <?php
require_once '/path/to/carp/carp.php';
// Add any desired configuration settings below this line using "CarpConf" and other functions
CarpCacheShow('[fieldX]');
?>

to be added to the profile template (?) so that the RSS feed shows.

I hope that made some sort of sense.

*Note*

Configuration is done by changing the values in the array $carpconf. You may change the defaults by modifying carp.php itsself. You may override the defaults for a particular RSS feed by inserting lines like "CarpConf('cachepath','/my/private/cache/path');" after the line where you "require_once" CaRP, and before calling CarpShow()....
outputformat: 0 to display CaRP's output as HTML (the default), 1 to output JavaScript which will display the output as HTML, or 2 to store the HTML formatted output in a PHP variable ($carpoutput), which your PHP code can use as desired.