Create RSS feed out of new threads in specific forum

[MickDoneDee]

Thanks for your response, however, I knew I could view the RSS output by looking at external.php in the browser. I wanted to know how to view a feed created by my site's RSS output. I now realize I need an aggregator or RSS reader. I was able to submit my RSS feed to NewsGator and view it there in NewsGator Online.

[thesatman]

I use http://www.rss2js.com/ to convert the RSS feed from external.php to JavaScript to include in a standard HTML page.

Hope this helps

Chris.

[MickDoneDee]

Thanks for that great tip, Chris. Eventually, I found some PHP code to create a file to display the feed as article links. So I called it article.php. I can't remember where I found it so here is the code in full:

PHP Code:

<?php  
$_item = array();  
$_depth = array();  
$_tags = array("dummy");  

function initArray() 
{  
global $_item;  

$_item = array ("TITLE"=>"", "LINK"=>"",  
"DESCRIPTION"=>"", "URL"=>"");  
} 

function startElement($parser, $name){  
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  

if (($name=="ITEM") ||  
($name=="CHANNEL")  
|| ($name=="IMAGE")) {  
initArray();  
}  
@$_depth[$parser]++;  
array_push($_tags, $name);  
}  

function endElement($parser, $name){  
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  

array_pop($_tags);  
$_depth[$parser]--;  
switch ($name) {  
case "ITEM":  
echo "<p><a href=\"{$_item['LINK']}\">" . "{$_item['TITLE']}</a><br /> 
{$_item['DESCRIPTION']}</p>\n";  
initArray();  
break;  
}  
} 

function parseData($parser, $text){  
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  

$crap = preg_replace ("/\s/", "", $text);  
/* is the data just whitespace? 
if so, we don't want it! */  

if ($crap) {  
$text = preg_replace ("/^\s+/", "", $text);  
/* get rid of leading whitespace */  
if (@$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]]) {  
$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] .=  
$text;  
} else {  
$_item[$_tags[$_depth[$parser]]] =  
$text;  
}  
}  
}  

function parseRDF($file){  
global $_depth, $_tags, $_item;  

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();  
initArray();  

/* Set up event handlers */  
xml_set_element_handler 
($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");  
xml_set_character_data_handler 
($xml_parser, "parseData");  

/* Open up the file */  
$fp = fopen ($file, "r") or die ("Could not  
open $file for input");  

while ($data = fread ($fp, 4096)) {  
if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof 
($fp))) {  
die (sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",  
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code  
($xml_parser)),  
xml_get_current_line_number 
($xml_parser)));  
}  
}  

fclose($fp);  
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);  
} 

parseRDF 
("http://www.yoursite.com/external.php?type=rss"); 
?>

[kabir]

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