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.

[BamaStangGuy]

Anyone have a fix for this?

[Brandon Sheley]

how about a 4.x version? :up:

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by cevo

Is this mod working for vb 4.x?

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

how about a 4.x version? :up:

It seems to be working in 4.2.0 PL3 with the modifications to the plugin suggested by NLP-er at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=37

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

It seems to be working in 4.2.0 PL3 with the modifications to the plugin suggested by NLP-er at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=37

I can confirm working in 4.2.0 PL3 with the modification linked above.