External javascript feed.

[Joe Gardner]

I would love to see what others have done with the external feed options.

You can see my feeds here:

http://www.bikeforums.net/datafeed.html
http://www.bikeforums.net/datafeed-black.html

I should really clean up the HTML a bit, kinda sloppy. Feel free to use the above links for ideas, but please dont use my code line for line or any of my images...

A few varibles you should know about:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.bikeforums.net/external.php?type=js"></script>

Will show threads form all forums.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.bikeforums.net/external.php?type=js&forumids=100"></script>

Will show threads form forum ID 100.

for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)

Will show the last 5 threads, you can only show 15 threads max without hacking the external.php code.

You can add a few more varibles in the feed, but I have not yet figured thoes out.

Now I need to dumb it down a bit so my forum members can put the code on there page

[Joe Gardner]

Hmm, so i take it nobody else has dpne anything with this?

[Brad]

Ive been playing with it, I wouldent recomend doing it with javascript though. Alot of people have it disabled.

[Joe Gardner]

Alot as in 3%?

I dont know how to do it with the other options... I'll have to look into it.

[Brad]

I try to stray from javascript because it is client side, I would much rather code some php (server side) and have it all out-putted into html because it will render in browsers with js turned off. If 97% of your visitors have it on then I say go for it and use your current method.

[Mone']

I use it on the frontpage of my site to show the latest 5 announcement from the forum
nothing special just handy

you can view a demo here:

http://www.vbulletinstyles.com/

Miko