Defining RSS Feeds by Forum & Thread

[tavenger5]

By default vBulletin defines the RSS feed for the entire site on every page. This should be by forum. I've made this change to my headerinclude:

Change

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

to

<if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']">
<if condition="$show['foruminfo'] OR $show['threadinfo']">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - $foruminfo[title_clean] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" />
<else />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS" />
</if>
</if>

In addition I've also done a custom rewrite on external.php:
'external\.php\?type=rss2&forumids=(\d+)' => 'forum-$1-rss.xml'
'external\.php\?type=rss2$' => 'rss.xml'

[houseofpolitics]

i'm interested in doing this.

do i just change the code to what you put?

[tavenger5]

Actually, 3.6 does this by default; very similar. When I did this I did it for 3.5

edit: the rewrite isn't done by default, obviously

[houseofpolitics]

what do you mean by 3.6 does it by default?

how can i make rss feeds for one of my forum?

[tavenger5]

The first set of code above is from 3.5. In 3.6 the same code looks more like the second set.

RSS feeds are created by external.php, which is a default feature of vbulletin.

[Code Monkey]

I always put the site name in there.

Site-Name-Feed-f(\d+)\.rss#] => external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=$1
Site-Name-Feed\.rss#] => external.php?type=RSS2

[tavenger5]

Yep! Recently I moved everything over to feedburner though so I can track things a little better.

[convergent]

Care to explain how you moved everything to feedburner? Specifically, how do you get things set so that when a visitor hits the RSS button on their browser that it calles feedburner instead of external.php?

[tavenger5]

modified the code above to point to the feedburner URL. If you check out my cell phone site, you'll see how they're named.