Here is version 1.1b1 of the RSS Feed mod that creates an RSS Feed for a forum's most recent posts.  Works with SP 1.3.1 - 1.4.



The admin may set the categories and number of posts to syndicate.

You can try out a feed here, using an RSS Reader:

http://www.mineralarts.com/cgi/yabbsp1/YaBB.pl?action=rss


Details in the RSSFeedHelp file.

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Changes from 1.0:
Fixed feed headers.  Feed now validates without problems.
Fixed euro symbol problem.
Fixed <yabb title> problem.
Added option to use regular YaBB thread display or simplified thread display.

Dan

Why, feeding your news aggregator, of course. 

RSS Feeds are xml formatted documents read by news aggregators such as Read Feeder, Sharp Reader, and others.  The benefit is that you can view topic titles and usually article summaries from a bunch of different sources very quickly in a format that looks much like an email client.  The feeders poll the news feeds you select for updates, automatically.

Dan

BlogExpress or Abilon are good easy ones.  You can also look at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/misctools/fwrssreaders.html

I have an alpha (really alpha) of the RSS Feed mod for YaBB 2 RC1 running on my test forum.  It validates on rss.scripting.com (feedvalidator.org is down tonight).  I would to feedback on how it works with different feed readers.

http://www.mineralarts.com/cgi/yabb2a/YaBB.pl?action=rss

Dan

Open the new RSS_Display.pl file and copy the new RRS_Manage and RSS_Manage2 subroutines into your old RSS_Display.pl file, overwriting the old routines.

Then find this line:

		$rsstimestring = '20' . $rssyear . '-' . $rssmonth . '-' . $rssday . 'T' . $rsshour . ':' . $rssmin . ':' . $rsssec . $RSS_Timeoffset; 

and add these lines after:

### set thread view format
		if( $RSS_Format == 1 ) { $rssformat = 'rssdisplay'; }else{ $rssformat = 'display'; } 

then find this line:

<link>$scripturl?board=$board;action=$action;num=$tnum</link> 

and replace with this line:

<link>$scripturl?board=$board;action=$rssformat;num=$tnum</link> 

Dan

I can't seem to get this puppy to work.  ???

After some noobie type problems (wrong URL, forgetting to read the directions, etc etc) I still get the following in my SharpReader (good program BTW, thanks for the link!):

Error parsing RSS XML: Not a valid xml document: This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'WHITESPACE'. Line 1, position 63.
Please try to validate this feed. If this feed validates as correct RSS, you can send an error report.


I'm willing to give access to resolve.  Please advise...

Thanks in advance!