UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? include news feed

How would it be possible to include an RSS news feed (or any other file) into part of my forum? All I can see that can be modified from within the control panel is the header and the footer of the forum. Ideally I would want to insert a nicely formatted RSS news feed where the arrow indicates (using this forum as an example!)
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Thanks

Hi Chuck,

1) You'll need an XML parser script. I attached one that I customized a wee bit for threads (plus I added an option for maximum number of items to show, and support for multiple feeds), although I'm sure that you'll want to tweak some of the CSS classes and HTML to suit your own needs. Plus you need to define the RSS feed URL in there too.

So just customize and upload to your threads folder (and obviously rename it to rss.php).

2) Ok now in templates/postlist.tmpl,

Add this...



Just below this (it's at the very beginning):



Now yours should look something like mine ;-)

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/postlist3.php?Cat=&Board=loonybin

but remember that the include command isnt allowed on most rent server for security behavor. It may work or not

If you run IIP as portal you can use a pal box for displaying a newsfeed. there are 2 or more examples in the modification index. Works well on my site.

To create your own feeds from your board to your user its very easy. Set up in the control panel the proper feed and add in include/header-insert.php the following (example):



Browsers like Firefox now shows in the lower right corner a feed icon if the feed is enabled. Pretty easy.

[]Zarzal said:
but remember that the include command isnt allowed on most rent server for security behavor. It may work or not
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Just to clarify, are you referring to the entire command or just remote-file includes?

Also, Threads and IIP both use includes so obviously they would have that functionality enabled if using this forum software in the first place (?)

Or am I missing something?

Now excuse me while I bump myself up to Code Monkey

Thanks for your help!
It is very useful.
I have one more question, and please forgive me because my programming is quite weak. I would like to display this news feed in only one of the forums that I have, not in every forum. Would some sort of 'if' statement be required here - if so what variable would it need to test?

Yeah just wrap this around the include like so...

if ($Board == "keyword_of_board") {
include ("rss.php");
}