Additional external.php feed format

Those of you who integrate your feed in a PHP page will appreciate the simplicity of working with this .

Once installed you can just include your therads on your site's pages (example) via simply reading contents of external.php?type=php (be it via fopen, etc), and then processing the results through an unserialize() call.

[Myr7h]

Originally Posted by okrogius

sure, using this getitng yoru threads can be as simple as:

PHP Code:

<?php

$threads = unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/external.php?type=php'));

for ($i=0; $<count($threads); $i++) {
 echo 'thread: '.$threads[$i]['title'].'<br />';
}

?>

its not as simple as that other wise i wouldn't get this error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in G:\wampp2\htdocs\mnracing\index.php on line 230

[Mr. Brian]

Did you change the URL to your's instead??

Originally Posted by Myr7h

its not as simple as that other wise i wouldn't get this error message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in G:\wampp2\htdocs\mnracing\index.php on line 230

[Geographic2]

Same error here:

on this line:

for ($i=0; $<count($threads); $i++) {


Are you sure that is right?

ok now I see it needs to be

for ($i=0; $i<count($threads); $i++) {


I see the application of this, very nice. Quick way to flip things across. Damn I love this external.php

[andor]

Hey, this is a great simple mod - love it. Thanks!

[Mosh]

To get this Mod to work with KW802's replacement for external.php in this thread "FPS_EXTERNAL.PHP -- New options added & RSS compliant version of external.php" - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=69834, use the following instructions instead of the ones attached here:

Open fps_external.php (or whatever you renamed it to).

Find:

PHP Code:

case 'JS':
     break;
case 'XML':
     break;
case 'RSS1':
     break;
case 'RSS2':
     break; 


Under it add:

PHP Code:

case 'PHP':
     break; 


Find:

PHP Code:

// +=============================================================+
// | Build the RSS feeds                                         |
// +=============================================================+
else if (($_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS' OR $_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS1' OR $_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS2') AND $vboptions['externalrss']) 


Above it add:

PHP Code:

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'PHP')
{ // PHP output
    echo serialize($threadcache);
} 


Hope this helps,

jd

[KW802]

If there are no objections I'll incorporate that into the next round of changes I'm working on.

[Natch]

Good idea Kev

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by jdsinclair

To get this Mod to work with KW802's replacement for external.php in this thread "FPS_EXTERNAL.PHP -- New options added & RSS compliant version of external.php" - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=69834, use the following instructions instead of the ones attached here:

Open fps_external.php (or whatever you renamed it to).

Find:

PHP Code:

case 'JS':
     break;
case 'XML':
     break;
case 'RSS1':
     break;
case 'RSS2':
     break; 


Under it add:

PHP Code:

case 'PHP':
     break; 


Find:

PHP Code:

// +=============================================================+
// | Build the RSS feeds                                         |
// +=============================================================+
else if (($_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS' OR $_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS1' OR $_REQUEST['type'] == 'RSS2') AND $vboptions['externalrss']) 


Above it add:

PHP Code:

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'PHP')
{ // PHP output
    echo serialize($threadcache);
} 


Hope this helps,

jd

Originally Posted by KW802

If there are no objections I'll incorporate that into the next round of changes I'm working on.

Sorry it took so long to respond, I have only just rechecked this thread. I have no probs you using my instructions, it was just to get okrogius's code to work with your version instead of the original external.php.

The only problem I see with okrogius's code is that there is no mechanism to turn off the php feed in the ACP (whereas you can switch off the others), that needs to be factored in when adding the php feed if okrogius gives permission to use his code.

jd