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Defining RSS Feeds by Forum & Thread

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Old 07-30-2007, 01:43 AM
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Defining RSS Feeds by Forum & Thread
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
Code:
<if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']"><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS" />
to

Code:
<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'
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Old 10-09-2007, 12:28 AM
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i'm interested in doing this.

do i just change the code to what you put?
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Old 10-09-2007, 12:32 AM
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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
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Old 10-09-2007, 12:41 AM
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what do you mean by 3.6 does it by default?

how can i make rss feeds for one of my forum?
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Old 10-09-2007, 11:30 PM
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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.
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I always put the site name in there.

Code:
Site-Name-Feed-f(\d+)\.rss#] => external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=$1
Site-Name-Feed\.rss#] => external.php?type=RSS2
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Old 10-10-2007, 11:39 AM
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Yep! Recently I moved everything over to feedburner though so I can track things a little better.
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Old 10-31-2007, 05:34 PM
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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?
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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.
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