rss feeds on chosen forums

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

How can i have just certain forums in a rss feed. I have seen a few sites with rss images in the forum title to show it was available in a rss feed. How is this done ?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

I think there are phpBB "hacks" out there for this, but I am not the phpBB expert. I'd try asking the same question over at http://ravenphpscripts.com forums as the community there is very knowledgeable in such things.

Newbie Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 13

Will do my friend and thnk you for your time.

Newbie Joined: Nov 16, 2006 Posts: 1

You can use RDFNuke for that, it is one single file and all you need to do is append some data to the end of the 'call' for the file.

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2007 Posts: 15

Thanks my friend. I will definately give that a try.

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2007 Posts: 15

Works terific my friend. You have helped me solve something i have been wanting for a long time.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

Where did you find "RDFNUKE"? Can we see a link?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Well, doing a quick 2 minute google got me this:

http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4409&sid=0ea06955ccf7370ea466ce687a1b147d#4409

Wink

There is a link to his download (direct download) of the tar file.

HOWEVER, I have no idea if this is the latest-and-greatest nor how secure it is. I don't have time to review it.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Never mind! Shows you how much a 2minute google seach will do for you... this starts with a standalone vesion from phpbb and then they go into discussing forumsbackend.php which is not what I think you are after... sorry about that!

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

rdfnuke is the way to go.
Let me know if you have problems getting hold of it as I use it extensively.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

I can't find it. If you could be any service to that.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

http://www.code-authors.com/rdf-nuke.txt
Just copy the code and paste it inot a php file - the name of the file doesn't matter.
Upload the file into your nuke root and thats it!!
Comments in the file will tell you how to use it create feeds for a specific forum but if you get stuck just give me a shout.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

I believe manic was really looking for an XML icon within the Forums themselves or next to them, so that he/she could syndicate a specific forum. Does this code do this or is this like a forumbackend.php kind of RSS script?

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

It works in a similar fashion to the beckendforum.php script but rdf-nuke.php has the advantage of specifying a particular forum id in its calling url.
I used it on my first phpnuke site as can be seen here
http://www.guildofsecurity.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums
All I did was add an image source and h ref link within the forum description, appending the link url with the parameters described within the file.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

oh, hey, that's right! I remember now you doing this. I remember you saying that you added the HTML right into your forum description. That is very ingenious of you. Thanks!