RSS feed with *all* active threads in a forum?

**Ville** · 07-23-2007, 10:01 PM

I've spent good part of the day looking for a way to make the RSS feed to provide a list of X number most recently active threads (with a date cut-off). The earlier thread about displaying all active threads on any html page goes to the right direction, but rather than having them posted on a page, I'd like to have them in RSS feed format (XML), with the option to subscribe, in other words just like the the "external.php" produces.

The vanilla vB 3.6.7 only displays newly started threads (I messaged with Steve from Jelsoft earlier today to confirm this), but on my board majority of posts occur in very long-lived threads.. some have 100+ pages on them! Thus the default RSS feed displays usually one or no threads which is no good since there can be plenty of activity on the board without a single new thread started.

I haven't seen a hack/add-on, or an idea how "external.php" could be modified to display all active threads rather than just the new threads. I guess I wouldn't need to use external.php if such a feed could be created with a custom page.

Much thanks for any insights or pointers on this!!

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-23-2007, 10:18 PM

I'll let one of the coders check this out, but I do think it could be done

**Ville** · 07-23-2007, 10:48 PM

Most anything can be done

... just how easy it is varies. I think I was able to locate the spot in external.php that would need to be modified, but someone more familiar with the vBulletin internals might be able to make the modification with less effort. I'll stay tuned to see what comes up! Thanks again!

**Ville** · 07-30-2007, 11:35 PM

Any update on this? I'll get back to this later this week once some hardware stuff is first taken care of..

**Yogesh Sarkar** · 07-31-2007, 02:54 PM

I am looking for some thing of this sort as well.

Edit: Got the info from Wayne (VBulletin staff)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Add lastpost=1 to your URL.

For example:

www.vbulletin.com/external.php?lastpost=1

Or
http://www.vbulletin.com/external.ph...ss2&lastpost=1

**Ville** · 07-31-2007, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yogesh Sarkar

Edit: Got the info from Wayne (VBulletin staff) [...]

Excellent! That seems to work. Just need to change the URL of the board RSS subscribe button to include that parameter. Thanks!

**Ville** · 08-05-2007, 06:51 PM

Hmm.. no replies to my question at vBulletin.com. Maybe I have better luck here.

I'm trying to find the code in vbulletin that produces the RSS icon on the address bar (see the attached for a picture about what I'm talking about). I'd like to add the "&lastpost=1" by default to the URL that the RSS icon ("Susbscribe to this page...") launches.

**OS Master** · 08-05-2007, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ville

Hmm.. no replies to my question at vBulletin.com. Maybe I have better luck here.

I'm trying to find the code in vbulletin that produces the RSS icon on the address bar (see the attached for a picture about what I'm talking about). I'd like to add the "&lastpost=1" by default to the URL that the RSS icon ("Susbscribe to this page...") launches.

Try looking in your headerinclude template.

Find:

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2" />

Replace with:

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2?lastpost=1" />

**Ville** · 08-05-2007, 07:56 PM

Thanks much! That works (except that you had a typo in parameter separator... should've been '&' instead of '?' before 'lastpost=1'

).

Corrected replacement code:

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2&lastpost=1" />

**OS Master** · 08-06-2007, 12:45 PM

Oops. Sorry about that. But yeah you're welcome!