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RSS feeds on forumhome

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Author: Ken 'LiveWire' Iovino
Site: www.initialz.com
Version: 1.0.0
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Updates

• None At this Moment

What this does
This will show RSS feeds on your forumhome page, for a good example go to www.webhostingtalk.com and look on the right menu, you will see "WebHostingTalk News, News by HostingTech.com". This hack will allow you to do exacly what they have done there.

Please note that im not that experiance with RSS feeds, but i know this worked for me when i was in need to have feeds on my forumhome, but maybe alot of sites are diffrent, but i doubt it. Anyway i would suggest you have small know how in PHP to modify the code to your taste. Read the comments to fully understand.

To do list...

• Time to install: 3-5 minutes
• Queries to run: 0
• File Mods: 1
  • /forums/indexphp
• Templates to edit: 0
• Templates to add: 0
• New Phrases: 0

Please read carefully and make all the necessary changes as stated. This is will work if installed properly.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN! If you like this hack

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Help & Support
Before asking for support Please make sure you have done all necessary changes! If you still need support please post a reply here.

Please post bugs and errors here. Hope you like, feedback welcomed.

[MikeeX]

I'm very new at this, but I wanted to place this RSS information somewhere else. I wanted to create my own page, like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ctiontemplates

Then block out mulitple RSS feeds in it. Is this possible? If so, can you get me a head start on how to display that in there. I know I can't use PHP code IN templates, so I'm kind of lost

Thanks so much!

[dookie]

Seems to be unsupportet.

uninstalled :angry:

[Logikos]

Unsupported, untill i have internet acess back.

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by Live Wire

Unsupported, untill i have internet acess back.

So wheres the cache man?

[artonex]

has anyone tested this hack on vb3.0.7 ?

[noppid]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I expanded the hack so members could choose different newsfeeds or add their own... however, my site is too busy for this hack - the constant fopen of RSS feeds killed my server when we reach our peak over 1,000 users online. So I've had to remove the hack. Some kind of cache which updates hourly or so would be ideal.

OMG! Did I just read that correctly? The Doctor wrote an RSS client with no caching and using fopen? Have you not read the RFC?

I'm appalled! I have been ranting for months that you must not use fopen,open or file_get_contents for RSS!

First off there is an RFC to follow with standards.

Secondly, you are not supposed to hit a feed for every hit at your site.

I'm not counting, you SHOULD have caching and cache for at least one hour on feed hits.

You can get RSS agregators for free, there is no need to re-invent the wheel!

I will not release my code, however this stuff is internet pollution and should not be used in any way shape or form.

[Corriewf]

Muhahaha I am such a troll. :P

[noppid]

Originally Posted by corriewf

Muhahaha I am such a troll. :P

Why do you say that?

If one goes around touting a doctorate, they should put out RFC compliant code.

It's healthy to question such actions IMO.

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by noppid

Why do you say that?

If one goes around touting a doctorate, they should put out RFC compliant code.

It's healthy to question such actions IMO.

Just trying to liven things up with a joke thats all.


I believe to do something good we have to do something bad sometimes.

[noppid]

Originally Posted by corriewf

Just trying to liven things up with a joke thats all.


I believe to do something good we have to do something bad sometimes.

You mean like learn from our mistakes? Cool beans!

Someone could make a nice RSS hack if they did a little reading. The search engines love my news pages.