I've been tuning the rss-feed functionality, and have come up with a RSS feed that should run on virtually all Snitz fora. Installation ; very very very easy.
21-12-2004 ; Initial version, tested at oxle.com. 22-12-2004 ; Version 1.1, working at oxle.com. 18-01-2005 ; Version 1.2, working at oxle.com. Functionallity
Creates a general RSS feed for all public fora : rss.asp
Creates a rss feed per cat, by using rss.asp?cat_id=xx
Creates a rss feed per forum, by using rss.asp?forum_id=xx
Should the <i> </i> tags be included in the rss feed? I think its causing Trillian (and maybe other rss readers) to display the topic titles incorrectly.
This is a fragment from your own rss feed.
- <title>
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<i>(16-01-2005 13:19:10)</i>
</title>
You can see that the date and time are a new child element when they shouldn't be.
The first problem is that my forum uses an images folder, so I would like the RSS Feed to use images/RSS.gif in stead of root/RSS.gif . The second problem I'm not sure about... What does Oxle have to do with my RSS Feed?<
Jorrit, oxle has nothing to do with your site. So, you should replace these lines with your images, and you can hardcode the Images folder into it, or use the variable for it. <
That depends on what you want ; I made this one to show only the info about the topic. I've also got the headlines.asp (http://www.oxle.com/source.asp?page=headlines.asp) and that one shows the content of the topic (not the replies).<
Marcel - thanks for the code, this works great. A few notes though - (a) the TTL tag is a element of Channel, not Item, thus needs to be up near the title (line 115-116 maybe?). Also, in your source you have an author tag at line 116 using a Topic_Last_Post_Author variable that has not yet been defined. I have changed that to the title of my forum.<
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RSS Feed (by forum & by cat)
Posted - 21 December 2004 : 16:17:43
