simple RSS mod for phpBB3

[windrider07]

IS there a way where you can make it so that the rss feed can be shown on a separate webpage like on the main page of a CMS rather than the main board index of the forum?

[daGrevis]

All works (3.0.4) just fine! Thanks for mod!

[mre03]

is this rssfeed valid now? because it says its not for my feed

[theduffman]

Hi, my link to the RSS feed is placed in the overall header on the right hand side list as advised. But, mysteriously, this list disappears upon a refresh in firefox. Not just the RSS image, but the whole list.

My forum is 3.0.4 with 3 other minor mods that work fine together and it's at http://www.felicifia.org

Can anyone offer support on this problem?

[Antheii]

Hi,

On our messageboard a lot of images are posted, using external file hosters (so no uploads permitted). But I wanted them out of the RSS feed, so I replaced them with links to those images.

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$board_url = generate_board_url();

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$cleaning = array(
	"/\[url\=(.*?)\:(.*?)\](.*?)\[img\:(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/img\:(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\:(.*?)\]/is" => "<a href=\"$5\" target=\"_new\">image</a>",
	"/\[img\:(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/img\:(.*?)\]/is" => "<a href=\"$2\" target=\"_new\">image</a>",
	"/<img src=\"\{SMILIES_PATH\}\//is" => "<img src=\"$board_url/images/smilies/"
);

(the first two lines are for those images, the third line actually is for transforming the URI's of the smileys to absolute URI's instead of relative URI's to comply with RSS standards.)

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$topic_link   = $board_url."/viewtopic.".$phpEx."?f=".$forumid."&t=".$topicid;

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	    $tptxt = $row['post_text'];
	    $tptxt = preg_replace(array_keys($cleaning), array_values($cleaning), $tptxt);

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$description  = $user->lang['POST_BY_AUTHOR']." ".$row['topic_last_poster_name']." 

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$row['post_text']

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$tptxt

Don't know how this would work when you allow images to be uploaded to your forum though!

Hope this is of use to somebody (although a real PHP guru probably would produce a better code, and most likely this is not to phpBB standards )

Hans

[Antheii]

Hi,

As we were experiencing performance issues, including the "Too many connections [1040]"-error (yeah, I know, we should look for another provider...), I decided to try to cache this RSS feed, as it looked it was the main perpetrator,

This was my first attempt to make some caching, so I guess there are better ways (any advice would be appreciated!), but this is how I did it;

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/**
* @ignore
*/

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// Use cached file or not
$cache_time = 180; // Time in seconds before new feed is generated
$cache_filename = 'cache/rsscache'; // Location to lookup or store cached file

// Check to see if this file has already been cached    
// If it has get the file creation time and compare with cache_time
if (file_exists($cache_filename) && 
           (time() - $cache_time < filemtime($cache_filename))) 
        {
        	header('Content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8');
	readfile($cache_filename);
	echo "<!-- Cache generated at ".date(DATE_RFC822, filemtime($cache_filename))."-->";
        	exit;
        }

ob_start(); // Turns on output buffering  
//end caching

Off course you can alter the value of $cache_time to your needs.
The ECHO is to check in the source of the output whether the cache file is used or a new feed was generated. You can remove this line if you like.

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$db->sql_freeresult($result);

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// write output to cache_filename
file_put_contents($cache_filename, ob_get_contents());  
ob_end_flush();
//end write output

The effect of this is, that only once every 180 seconds a new feed is generated, so limiting the connections to the database to once every 180 seconds.
All RSS users will get the content of the cached file during those 3 minutes in between.

One thing I still need to tackle, is getting 101% sure that even when a moderator or administrator calls the RSS feed while logged in, it will not include messages from closed/hidden forums being written to the cache file, because everybody will then be able to see those.
Not sure (yet) how this mechanism works though.

Hans

[daGrevis]

All works just fine, and thank guy, but after reinstall my forum, when i click to rss icon (go to rss.php), it offer my to download file - rss.php... Same on IE, as FF...

[deepan]

Friends i use serenity green style can some one tell me how to add rss for this style...
Please help me

[dan909]

Friends i use serenity green style can some one tell me how to add rss for this style...
Please help me

Are installation instructions not similar?

[deepan]

I tried following this method below for my serenity green style:
but i was not able to see the rss icon and the feed was also not working...please help

for subsilver2 template
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File Copy

Copy: root/rss.php 
To: root/rss.php 

Copy: root/styles/prosilver/theme/images/icon_rss.gif 
To: root/styles/subsilver2/theme/images/icon_rss.gif 

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Open: styles/subsilver2/template/overall_header.html
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<td class="genmed" align="{S_CONTENT_FLOW_END}">

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<a href="{U_RSS}"><img src="{T_THEME_PATH}/images/icon_rss.gif" width="12" height="13" alt="*" />{L_RSS_EXPLAIN}</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;

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Open: language/en/common.php
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'EXTENSION_DISABLED_AFTER_POSTING'	=> 'The extension <strong>%s</strong> has been deactivated and can no longer be displayed.',

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//rss feed code
  'RSS_EXPLAIN'	  =>'RSS ',	
  'RSS_READ_TOPIC' =>'Read Main Topic',
  'RSS_COPYRIGHT' =>'Copyright by',
  'RSS_FAILURE'	=>'Failed to get latest topics',

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Open: includes/functions.php
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'U_RESTORE_PERMISSIONS'	=> ($user->data['user_perm_from'] && $auth->acl_get('a_switchperm')) ? append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}ucp.$phpEx", 'mode=restore_perm') : '',

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//rss feed code
    'U_RSS'			=>append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}rss.$phpEx"), 

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save the files re-upload them,
refresh the template and go get it

[daGrevis]

Can some one can help me with my problem? (Higher!)

[Antheii]

Can some one can help me with my problem? (Higher!)

Could you give a link to your forum?

Hans

[Antheii]

Hi,

I tried following this method below for my serenity green style:
but i was not able to see the rss icon and the feed was also not working...please help

In the code you placed here, it says

Open: styles/subsilver2/template/overall_header.html

Did you adjust the overal_header.html in styles/serenitygreen/template too?

Hans

[daGrevis]

Can some one can help me with my problem? (Higher!)

Could you give a link to your forum?

Hans

Sorry, I cant, because its on localhost, but i can give you screen shot...



Any ideas?

[deepan]

Hi,

I tried following this method below for my serenity green style:
but i was not able to see the rss icon and the feed was also not working...please help

In the code you placed here, it says

Open: styles/subsilver2/template/overall_header.html

Did you adjust the overal_header.html in styles/serenitygreen/template too?

Hans

i had copied the file icon file to root/styles/serenitygreen/theme/images/icon_rss.gif
and changed the following files styles/serenitygreen/template/overall_header.html
language/en/common.php
includes/functions.php

i didn't do the changes inside subsilver2 or prosilver style folder becoz i use only serenitygreen style