Miscellaneous Hacks - Exclude Forums From external.php

Ever wanted to exclude some of your forums from the external.php output, without having to add and maintain a huge include list?

Now you can, this mod adds two attributes to the external.php query string.

• excludeids is a comma delimited string of forums to exclude from the external.php output.
• notitleids=1 will not list all the included forum ids in the RSS feed title.

Why was this mod created and how is it used?

We redirect all our feed requests to feedburner and use it to serve all our forum feeds. We have a feed for each of our individual forums and a general feed for the entire site. Recently we added some commercial forums and don't want to clutter the feed with the commercial content, so we needed to exclude two forums. Our forum feed string now looks like:

http://forum.voxilla.com/external.php?type=rss2&lastpost=1&excludeids=97,98&notitleids=1

How does this mod work?

This mod uses the hooks in external.php to add the new settings without the need for custom code modifications.

[zmmmzz]

thanks!!!

[Eq4bits]

What if I want to exclude ALL but one forum? Sort of the opposite of what this mod does...

[echamberlain]

Instructions for creating feeds for individual forums is in the vBulletin documentation.

[smestas]

I'm sorry if this is obvious, but will this work OK in 3.7?

[nfn]

mine is working!

[SEOvB]

I've added the above $vbulletin->GPC['notitleids'] = 1; to the plugin code, and it is still out putting all the forum id's!

any idea?

[nfn]

Here is my plugin:

Hook: esternaç_start
$vbulletin->GPC['excludeids'] = 'X,Y,Z';
$vbulletin->GPC['notitleids'] = 1;
$vbulletin->GPC['lastpost'] = 1;

[zmmmzz]

is this working in 3.7.2?

[Ingmar]

Thank you echamberlain and nice contribution nfn!

*clicks installed*

[ColinP]

Hi, I've just installed this and it works brilliantly. Just one issue - the notitleids parameter has no effect. Any ideas?