Limit length in RSS (External Data Provider)

[ResaleBroker]

Originally Posted by abroad

hmm...when I call ...external.php?rss2 on Firefox it looks like that it shows up short but on the IE7 it still shows the full content...

Please verify that your Hook Location is: external_query

[abroad]

There is still a problem. If I have this plug in activated and I want to open the RSS feed in a browser, an empty page appears. When I click on reload it actually shows then the feed. I tried it with IE and Firefox.

why do I have to push reload to load this feed?

I do .../external.php&rss2

[Trichomes]

can this be done for the javascript version, it didnt work for me

[Marvin Hlavac]

Originally Posted by abroad

There is no way to limit it without using a plugin (as we do here).

This is a simplfied version of what we do ;

Hook: external_query
Code:

unset($vbulletin->GPC['fulldesc']);
$vbulletin->options['threadpreview'] = 200;
$hook_query_fields .= ",LEFT(post.pagetext,400) AS message";

Would someone please be so kind and tell me step-by-step how to implement this?

I've spent last night and this morning searching vbulletin.org and vbulletin.com for a simple step-by-step instructions on how to limit the output of my RSS feed, but I only found this thread.

[Lynne]

Take a look in the manual on how to create a plugin - Plugin System And then all you need to do for this is right in the post you quoted. It tells you the hook location and the contents for plugin. Save and make sure you set it to Active. Wait a little bit (depending on what value you have the cache set up) until you can see the plugin working (it won't work right away because of the cache).

[Marvin Hlavac]

Lynne, thanks for pointing me the right direction. It works now. :-)