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Stryker412 · #1 07-14-2008, 07:11 PM

Anyone know of a mod that will allow a news ticker to stream on the forum home that will display feeds from any RSS source?

SLR722 · #2 07-14-2008, 08:08 PM

1. Copy http://yourforum.com/external.php?type=rss2
2. Use RSStoHTML or RSStoPHP and make <maquee> with it or PHP include it

Stryker412 · #3 07-14-2008, 09:14 PM

A little slower for the php challenged?

SLR722 · #4 07-14-2008, 09:44 PM

OK.. do you want to display a News Ticker for all the RSS Feed or for a particular forum? category?

Download RSSTOHTML
Upload rss2html.php and FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php to the root (http://www.forum.com/) or (/public_html/).
DOUBLE CHECK, they should be in the root so they can be called like http://www.forum.com/rss2html.php
Create a new file called "vBMarquee.html", contents of the file are below..
Now try going to http://www.forum.com/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://www.forum.com/external.php?type=rss2&TEMPLATE=vBMarquee.html&MAXITEMS=10
OK its looking good but nothings moving and it looks a mess? Great
Go to AdminCP - > Style Manager - > FORUMHOME - > Add after headerinclude a PHP include or a SHTML Virtual include.
If your still lost try the code below

PHP Code:


			
<?php

/*

IN FORUMHOME CODE

*/

include("/root/path/to/copy/paste/from/cpanel/public_html/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=[B]http://www.forum.com/external.php?type=rss2[/B]&TEMPLATE=[B]vBMarquee.html[/B]&MAXITEMS=10");



echo "";



// Note use a include rather than require



?>

vBMarquee.html source:

HTML Code:

<HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
        <TITLE>
            ~~~FeedTitle~~~ vBulletin News Ticker using RSSTOHTML
        </TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
		<!--
        <H1>~~~FeedTitle~~~</H1>
        <H2>~~~FeedDescription~~~</H2>
		<MARQUEE>
		//-->
            <MARQUEE>
				~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~ ~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~ > ~~~ItemPubShortTime~~~ ><B><A href="~~~ItemLink~~~">~~~ItemTitle~~~</A></B> (~~~ItemDescription~~~) ~~~EndItemsRecord~~~
			</MARQUEE>
		<!--
		</MARQUEE>
        <H1>~~~FeedTitle~~~</H1>
        <H2>~~~FeedDescription~~~</H2>
		//-->
    </BODY>
</HTML>

This was just at the top of my head..please tell us if its OK.

SLR722

Stryker412 · #5 07-14-2008, 11:46 PM

I want to display the RSS feed from another news website, but in my forum home.

davidw · #6 07-15-2008, 12:33 AM

<cough>News Ticker</cough>

#7 07-15-2008, 01:45 AM

you catched a cough David ?!... how bad, we will have to ask Danny. to play the nurse again...

tssss

SLR722 · #8 07-15-2008, 07:39 AM

Hey

You can still use my suggestion above. And you can display feeds from anywhere. Nice hack. Although I thought this user had actually searched the forum, Google vB.com and even the thread recommendations query..

Stryker412 · #9 07-15-2008, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidw

<cough>News Ticker</cough>

Crap sorry, yes that's what I'm looking for. I saw this earlier but I thought it was just for forum messages/posts. My apologies.

davidw · #10 07-15-2008, 12:26 PM

No problem - someone else had the same requst, so I just made it a feature.

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