RSS feed displayed in forumdisplay

[amnesia623]

I can't believe it.

I just found this thread, but I am using the same exact setup on a new theme I'm creating for my board. I want to load news feeds from different sources based on forums.

Now, my question and concern is this:

1) loading all the feeds into global start: doesn't that slow the board down? Even if it's pulling from the cache doesn't it have to load all the feeds into the variables but only display the variable according to the condition on ForumHome? I would like to find a way that it only loads the appropriate feed based on the forum.

2) Couldn't you create multiple hooks, assign a different feed per hook, and load the corosponding hook based on a condition? ie: <if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 7">hook_name</if>

3) Or is there a way to load the rss2html.php file into a plugin and have the plugin communicate with the board so the forum id is passed to the plugin and loads the appropriate feed based on the forum id ie... (from the rss2html.php file)

if (forumID == 2) {
$XMLfilename = "http://www.tmz.com/rss.xml";}

I'm just thinking, at least for myself, there has to be a more efficient way to get this to work.

It's a great way to get fresh content on your site though!