[MODDB] simple syndication

[angelside]

MOD Title: simple syndication
MOD Description: phpBB 3.0 rss/atom content syndicator
MOD Version: 1.1.1b

MOD Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/canver ... .1b.tar.gz

Demo Board: http://www.phpbbturkiye.net/syndication.php?fid=20&t=1


changelog from 1.0.0b
* fix minor error
* add new parameter for show topic only first post


Updated on: 2007-06-20 - Version 1.1.1b

[spartanandjohn117]

You should have instructions to put a small "RSS" or "Atom" button on the template file(s) so that users can easily subscribe to it.

[Volunteer Forum]

Is it possibly to create something like the RSS on this forum:
http://www.volunteerforum.se/index.php
(As you can see each category has its own feed)

Also:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

Cant use this as the old version, this new version generates an error, the old did not...

[rawk]

This mod is great and I have installed it, but I insist to say that in my opinion link URLs should go to the same post as shown in the RSS entry, and not to the first page of the topic, because user want to read the same post.

Now all links in RSS entries are of the form viewtopic.php?f=5&t=71 eg they link to a topic, but they should be of the form viewtopic.php?p=814#p814 eg link to a post.

Could you please consider to modify it this way?
Thank you

[EDIT: It seems there are errors in the rss output since many posts get merged in a single item, I'll revert to the previous version for now]

[REVELAT10N]

How would you get this to only post topics but not list the replies? It works great as I am using an RSS reader in Flash that pulls the feed into Flash but I need to limit this to only the topics and have it ignore the replies.

A version of this mod that worked with phpbb2 had a code that looked like this:

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    $topics_only = (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['t'])) ? intval($HTTP_GET_VARS['t']) : 1;
    $sql_topics_only_where = '';
    if ($topics_only == 1) {
        $sql_topics_only_where = 'AND p.post_id = t.topic_first_post_id';
    }

That would strip the replies. I have tried using this in this mod but it fails.

Anyone?

[angelside]

It's easy, but you not use standard code !

First:

$HTTP_GET_VARS['t'] is old style for phpBB2, phpBB3 use this: $topics_only = request_var('t', '');

Second:

Your $sql_topics_only_where variable is not use my mods, I use: $sql_where

Third:

t.topic_first_post_id it's correct, but main SQL code don't have t.

FIX: Use newest version, I updated first post.


I test localhost and phpbbturkiye.net, and work. Thanks for this feedback, I added you idea main mod. Thanks.

[cillinz]

It isn't working for me:
http://stotis.net/syndication.php?type=atom
:/

[ylcncn]

works perfect for me. thanks

[REVELAT10N]

Excellent fix! I very much appreciate the quick response. It worked for me but now there is something I noticed this new code is missing and is subsequently messing up my RSS feed:

This code was in your old version

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$post_text = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $post_text);

From the look of it this would help the feed recognize line breaks. Your new code will only post the subjects if a line break appears in the topic. If there is no line break, the entire text is fed into the feed. Below is my test URL so you can see:

http://www.legionoftheapocalypse.com/forum/rss.php

Anyone have a quick fix for this?

EDIT:
Nevermind... seems to be an issue with Firefox. IE can view it as it is suppose to and my Flash file is pulling the info correctly. Excellent work!!!

[ascensions]

Great Mod! It does have a hard time with parsing embed and object codes I've noticed, but other then that it's brilliant!

I do however notice it's appending sids to the url when ran from third party software. This could be problematic as it's creating alot of alternate urls. Can this SIDs be shut off?

[spartanandjohn117]

I have successfully integrated this MOD with the SEO URL from Handyman. I can make you a list of changes to be made if you want.

[pappfer]

I tried to apply this mod but all I get is a blank page while I'm trying to read it.
My forum is in a subdomain. I copied syndication.php into the root of my forum and the other 2 files to the styles/prosilver/template/ folder.
Any idea for this?

By the way If I want to do that for subsilver2, all I need to do is to put these lines inside the <head> in overall_header.html in the templates directory of subsilver2, or do I have to add something else?

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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{SITENAME}" href="syndication.php?type=rss" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="{SITENAME}" href="syndication.php?type=atom" />

[Jhong]

I installed this, works great...

BUT.. (and I think this could also be the problem the poster above is having)....

FireFox doesn't seem to support the atom feed natively. You get a blank live bookmark page. Unfortunately, when you click on the RSS icon in the address bar, FireFox chooses the atom over the RSS2 feed (I tried reversing the order in the template: same result).

So I ended up just removing the atom feed from the template.

If you can look into FireFox live bookmark compatibility, that would be great.

I use FireFox 2.0.0.4-ubuntu, Noia theme (if it helps any).

[pappfer]

...

That's right, I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4, too.
But I also tried to give the address like this: http://forum.pappfer.hu/syndication.php?type=rss and also like this: http://forum.pappfer.hu/syndication.php?type=rss2 but always blank page as you can see.

[tanrek]

I do however notice it's appending sids to the url when ran from third party software. This could be problematic as it's creating alot of alternate urls. Can this SIDs be shut off?

Right. RSSOwl marks all items as unread after each reload since the posts have different URLs each time. The SIDs should be removed.