Inserting RSS into a page

[John Scott]

How would I go about inserting the v7n forums RSS into the v7n home page?

I just want like the titles of a few recent posts to show up there.

[kwvarga]

What's the location of the rss feed?

[John Scott]

The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:

RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://www.v7n.com/forums/external.php?type=rss
RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://www.v7n.com/forums/external.php?type=rss2

[John Scott]

Copied and pasted from the FAQ.

[surfer-talk]

It's probably a hack you can find on vBulletin.org. Or you can use JavaScript.

The stuff on vBulletin.org is probably easier to use, though.

[kwvarga]

JS - put them into http://m3lt.getmyip.com/php/rss/index.php
of course, thats a straight up parser, and can be designed into whatever color or however many..

[kwvarga]

JS, want me to get you that code?

[John Scott]

Damn you Spear. I want something like this:

<simple code//rss.feed.

rss.location=http://www.v7n.com/forums/external.php?type=rss 

end.simple code>

If I were a coder, everything would be that simple.

[surfer-talk]

What version of vBulletin is this?

[kwvarga]

Yeah, I know, what do you want it to display like, I will change the code then send it,

you will just do like

<?php
$url = "http://url/to/rssfeed";
echo getRSSFeed($url);




function getRSSFeed($url) {
  ...
}
?>

but I will go ahead and make it in format you want, so you dont have to mess with it, i.e. simple for you

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by surfer-talk

What version of vBulletin is this?

vBulletin 3.0.8

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by theSpear

Yeah, I know, what do you want it to display like, I will change the code then send it,

you will just do like

<?php
$url = "http://url/to/rssfeed";
echo getRSSFeed($url);




function getRSSFeed($url) {
  ...
}
?>

but I will go ahead and make it in format you want, so you dont have to mess with it, i.e. simple for you

I want to use RSS 0.91 because the other version includes too much info.

I want to put it on the v7n home page, and I'd think the css would take care of the font color and size, no?

[kwvarga]

yeah, but i mean like what info from thread

Option 1

Threadname

Option 2

Threadname - Poster

or what

[John Scott]

Title of thread, author, and link.

[kwvarga]

K, JS, go to same url -> http://m3lt.getmyip.com/php/rss/ and put in rss2.0 (other version doesnt have author) and tell me what you think, and number you want to display.


EDIT: Want me to do one of those nifty scripts where it adds ... to the end if length of topic is too long? If so, at how many characters?

[John Scott]

I would rather just display 4 thread titles.

Do-able?

[kwvarga]

Rgr, what about the limiting length.

[John Scott]

35 characters?

[kwvarga]

Aight, how is http://m3lt.getmyip.com/php/rss/getrss.php

can make each one in different divs if u want. right now it just does title <br>\r\n title.. etc..

*no longer have ability to send in own, hardcoded that in now

[John Scott]

Is it possible to limit the forums from whence the posts are taken? So, for example, posts from the Offers forum don't show up in the RSS feed?