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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 · #22 09-20-2004, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KW802

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.

Cool! One thing I just corrected in mine was the correct XHTML closing slash. So, your example would be this:

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>

58sniper · #23 10-01-2004, 01:01 AM

Just a follow up note:

By the way, KW802 posted a modified external.php file that adds some feature and standards compliance. Check it out at

FPS_EXTERNAL.PHP -- New options added & RSS compliant version of external.php

It's a nice addition to this hack.

BigCheeze · #24 12-15-2004, 06:16 PM

Hey thanks... I just enabled RSS on my site, and installed this, and Firefox likes it

ataraxia · #25 05-19-2005, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buro9

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

Did anything ever come of this?

An RSS feed for the Calendar would be very useful!

buro9 · #26 05-23-2005, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ataraxia

Did anything ever come of this?

An RSS feed for the Calendar would be very useful!

No, afraid not.

I usually come up with great ideas when I'm on the bench... and then before I get anywhere with them I'm thrown on a client site far from home.

So nope... didn't start this one.

kingwoodtalk · #27 05-28-2005, 09:01 PM

The calendar feed is a great idea. Wish there was some way I could help but am "original coding challenged". Hope something comes of this.

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