Miscellaneous Hacks - Exclude Forums From external.php

Ever wanted to exclude some of your forums from the external.php output, without having to add and maintain a huge include list?

Now you can, this mod adds two attributes to the external.php query string.

• excludeids is a comma delimited string of forums to exclude from the external.php output.
• notitleids=1 will not list all the included forum ids in the RSS feed title.

Why was this mod created and how is it used?

We redirect all our feed requests to feedburner and use it to serve all our forum feeds. We have a feed for each of our individual forums and a general feed for the entire site. Recently we added some commercial forums and don't want to clutter the feed with the commercial content, so we needed to exclude two forums. Our forum feed string now looks like:

http://forum.voxilla.com/external.php?type=rss2&lastpost=1&excludeids=97,98&notitleids=1

How does this mod work?

This mod uses the hooks in external.php to add the new settings without the need for custom code modifications.

[cionfs]

It works on vBulletin 3.8.0.

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by nfn

Here is my plugin:

Hook: esterna?_start
$vbulletin->GPC['excludeids'] = 'X,Y,Z';
$vbulletin->GPC['notitleids'] = 1;
$vbulletin->GPC['lastpost'] = 1;

For me everything is working when it is explicity in link:
http://www.forum.simple-nlp.pl/exter...ds=23,25,52,54

But when I set options in plugin and leave link without those params:
http://www.forum.simple-nlp.pl/external.php?type=rss2

Then code in plugin have no effect. Honestly - it have no effect at all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Plugin is set like it is described in some post earlier. I put my ids of forums. And still empty link shows everything.

I need to find a way to change default behaviour, bacauose I already propagated by RSS link to some sites - and I even don't remember where. So right now those pages are just spammed by welcome messages in my forum, and real content is not visible :/

[NLP-er]

Ok I already did it

You have to change existing plugin: Exclude Forum From external.php

Change:

 $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
   'excludeids' => TYPE_STR,
   'notitleids' =>TYPE_INT
 ));

To:

if ($vbulletin->GPC['excludeids'] != '') {
 $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
   'excludeids' => TYPE_STR,
   'notitleids' =>TYPE_INT
 ));
}

Be aware that now it will not react on excludeids and notitleids from link if you set it in plugin, but I don't need it. If somebody does - You know right now where make changes.

[fogjuice]

why the hell have ppl rated this mod up? did they not check their rss feed? it doesn't work and this mod is so temperamental. Maybe it is just my v3.8.2 but after examining the code, I can't see how this thing works.

[beduino]

Somebody knows if other mod make this excludes?
all the best
beduino

[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by fogjuice

why the hell have ppl rated this mod up? did they not check their rss feed? it doesn't work and this mod is so temperamental. Maybe it is just my v3.8.2 but after examining the code, I can't see how this thing works.

I had it working, but after update to v3.8.2 it doesn't work anymore :/

I mean it doesn't work with params written in plugin. But with teaken from url it works. Unfortunatelly I want to dissable by default some forums...

[NLP-er]

Ok I have solution - forget about previous changes I wrote about. Starting from original version - find plugin Exclude Forum From external.php and under

// clean our new excludeids attribute
 $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
   'excludeids' => TYPE_STR,
   'notitleids' =>TYPE_INT
 ));

add

if ($vbulletin->GPC['excludeids'] == '') {
  $vbulletin->GPC['excludeids'] = ',23,25,52,54';
  $vbulletin->GPC['notitleids'] = 1;
  $vbulletin->GPC['lastpost'] = 1;
}

Of course change ids and other options if you want. In this way if excludes ate in url then those will be used and only those. If not then default excludes will be applied. Of course if it is used forumids then excludes are ignored (last block of code in mentioned plugin). For me it is great

[melbo]

Awesome NLP-er! Works great.

[cevo]

Is this mod working for vb 4.x?

[T34]

2 NLP-er

Dosn't works with 3.8.5