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RSS autodiscovery · **Released**: 08-26-2004

This mod will trigger autodiscovery in news aggregators that support autodiscovery (most do).

In AdminCP, in the headinclude, find (usually about 3-4 lines from the top):

Code:

<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />

add the following below:

Code:

<link title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=php" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" />

That's it. Simple.

Let me know if you have any questions.

58sniper · #12 08-29-2004, 01:55 PM

Hmmmm..... let me look into that. My mod just gives the generic external.php link. I'm sure it can be modified. Gimme some time...

Also - please click INSTALL if you guys use this.

58sniper · #13 08-30-2004, 02:47 AM

I'm going to continue this mod in the thread over at vbulletintemplates.com. Check it out at http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...ead.php?t=6996

The mod now includes a conditional, as well as some other info.

buro9 · #14 09-15-2004, 01:41 PM

For the record, I use a very similar technique to activate Firefox Live Bookmarks

I'm only posting this so that anyone who wants a hack to enable Live Bookmarks will realise that this achieves that too

michaelab · #15 09-20-2004, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buro9

For the record, I use a very similar technique to activate Firefox Live Bookmarks

I've been trying to do that and can't get it to work. The RSS icon appears on the status bar and clicking it adds the live bookmark (with the correct URL) but all I get in FireFox under the bookmark is "Live bookmark feed failed to load."

I'm on vB 3.0.1 - do I need to upgrade to 3.0.3 for this to work?

btw, I have live bookmark feeds working on other sites (eg BBC News).

Any ideas??

Michael.

buro9 · #16 09-20-2004, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelab

I've been trying to do that and can't get it to work. The RSS icon appears on the status bar and clicking it adds the live bookmark (with the correct URL) but all I get in FireFox under the bookmark is "Live bookmark feed failed to load."

I'm on vB 3.0.1 - do I need to upgrade to 3.0.3 for this to work?

btw, I have live bookmark feeds working on other sites (eg BBC News).

Any ideas??

Michael.

In the headinclude template put the following, obviously modifying the URL for your forum, and the name of the forum too:

Code:

<link href="http://www.bowlie.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Bowlie - Latest Posts">
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
<link href="http://www.bowlie.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Bowlie - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title]">
</if>

You need full URLs, not relative.

RSS2 is prefered.

I have made it so that two feeds are available, a global one... and a per-forum one. Global feed of all latest posts is on every page, and the forum specific feed is on any page that can provide forum info (such as forumdiaply.php or showthread.php

).

That should work, does on mine

buro9 · #17 09-20-2004, 01:57 PM

I'm also going to work on a Calendar RSS feed if no-one else does.

And a proper version of "Latest posts" that provides the last posts content in the RSS rather than the first post of the thread.

Oh, and in external.php, I've changed the query just below "// query last 15 threads from visible / chosen forums" to order by thread.lastpost and NOT thread.dateline. As this way the threads in the RSS match perfectly the threads in the "Get Latest" page on the forum.

58sniper · #18 09-20-2004, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buro9

In the headinclude template put the following, obviously modifying the URL for your forum, and the name of the forum too:

Code:

<link href="http://www.bowlie.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Bowlie - Latest Posts">
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
<link href="http://www.bowlie.com/forum/external.php?type=rss2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Bowlie - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title]">
</if>

You need full URLs, not relative.

RSS2 is prefered.

I have made it so that two feeds are available, a global one... and a per-forum one. Global feed of all latest posts is on every page, and the forum specific feed is on any page that can provide forum info (such as forumdiaply.php or showthread.php

).

That should work, does on mine

Nice work. This would be a more generic version of the above that shouldn't require editing. Plug and play.

Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[externalrss]">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts" />
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title]" />
</if>
</if>

KW802 · #19 09-20-2004, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 58sniper

Nice work. This would be a more generic version of the above that shouldn't require editing. Plug and play.

Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[externalrss]">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts">
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title]">
</if>
</if>

Thanks! I just updated mine to have the forums change. I stuck mine in a else conditional though.

Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[externalrss]">
   <if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
	  <link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title]">
   <else/>
	  <link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts">
   </if>
</if>

I seem to remember coming across an external.php hack somewhere that will accomodate sub-forums so I'm searching for that now. BTW: Thanks to you I'm now playing around with Opera as part of my standard testing.

michaelab · #20 09-20-2004, 07:45 PM

Thanks guys. Upgrading to vB 3.0.3 fixed the problem. Must have been something funky in the way RSS was being generated in 3.0.1.

Michael.

ShiningArcanine · #21 09-20-2004, 09:07 PM

I wrote my own version of this:

Code:

<if condition="$vboptions[externalrss]">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[hometitle]">$vbphrase[x_dash_latest_posts]</phrase>" />
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[hometitle]" 2="$foruminfo[title]">$vbphrase[x_dash_latest_posts_in_y]</phrase>" />
</if>
</if>

It uses the phrase system and the settings in vBulletin options. Anyone who wants to use this without modifying it would want to create two custom phrases. One would be named: x_dash_latest_posts and have this content:

Code:

{1} - Latest Posts

The other would be named x_dash_latest_posts_in_y and have this content:

Code:

{1} - Latest Posts in {2}

I hope that helps someone

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