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A quick and dirty one, it shows the content of an rss feed. I had one feed it didn't work with, and a few others it did work with. It just shows the headers+the link to the article. /* PHP CODE HERE */
$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://www.fotogalerijen.be/parkcast/parkcast.xml');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=10) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />";
$count++;
}
/* BODY HERE */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF; Just copy/paste above code in a custom field, set the caching time on some value, edit the hardcoded feed url, and edit the max number of entries (10 now).
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Works great, just wish it would open the links in a new window. 
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Just add a target to the link. No rocket science needed to add that
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okay, I wanted a date/time added to it, so I took it a little further. Configuration is a bit more easy now since it's all listed on top. It also shows the content now of the feed if you fly over it. Styles used are those from the buildin posts island. enjoy! // configuration
$feedurl = 'http://www.fotogalerijen.be/parkcast/parkcast.xml';
$maxentries = 10;
$showdate = 1;
// start code
$body = "";
$count = 0;
$dateinfo = "";
$xml = getFeed($feedurl);
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count >= $maxentries) {
break;
}
if( !$feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$link=$feed['link'];
$time=$feed['time'];
$title=$feed['title'];
$description=$feed['description'];
$pubdate=strtotime($feed['pubdate']);
$pubtime = $html->convert_time($pubdate);
if ($showdate)
$dateinfo = <<<EOF
<span class="small">
$pubtime
</span>
EOF;
$body.= <<<EOF
<tr>
<td class="{$style_side}alt-1" align="left">
<div title="$description">
<a href="$link" target="_blank">$title</a></div>
$dateinfo
</td>
</tr>
EOF;
$count++;
}
I just thought of some security issues if the feed would contain html, so just add feeds you trust ok  I'm away for the weekend, so don't have time to get into it now.
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Perfect.
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A weird thing happens when I have two separate islands with the same code in on the same page but with two different urls to feeds.
It only shows one of the feeds in bot islands.
Hmmm
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Hmm, I'll give that a try. Have you tried both url's seperate?
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Well, when I have only one instance of the code in an island and one URL it shows the feed
But if I have the same code in two islands, even with separate urls only one feed shows up in both islands even though the urls to the feeds are different
I'm using a different code at the minute but I really like the above code, just can't understand why it only seems to work in one instance
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I type Like navaho
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Very nice Yarp! How difficult would it be to include a pit of the post body, similar to how active topics does it, but only for the specified forum(s)?
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Wouldn't be difficult at all. If it's a field in the feed, you can display it.
I do know I played with a version during dev that had the message content as tooltip text.
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Thanks for this! I was previously using an external rss reader (lastRSS) in order to populate a custom island, but this is much cleaner! I'm using it to show a list of recent changes from our wiki ( http://virtuafighter.com/ bottom left island). I feel a bit silly asking this, because my searching hasn't been successful, but where can I find some documentation on getFeed() ? Specifically, I'd like to know what rss protocols it supports, and what fields it returns (or does that just depend on the rss feed?)
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getfeed is a function that is in the ubb sourcecode, but as far as I know, it is not used anywhere by ubb itself. I found about it by trying out Ian Spence' rss topic creator.
it's in /libs/ubbthreads.inc.php if you want to have a look at it.
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Initially I believe it was used to parse an RSS feed from ubbcentral; but went wonky on some sites...
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Ah, the latest new thingy in control panel, yep, that would be it 
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Hey, blaaskaak, this is a cool tool - I'm using it successfully but am experiencing the same issue mentioned above, where, despite using three unique URL's, each Island displays information identical to the content of the first Custom Island. Any insight would be much appreciated! Let me show you the three pieces of code I'm using: This one displays the headlines from Variety.com: /* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/variety/news/film');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br /><br />";
$count++;
}
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */ The following two, though possessing unique URL's, display the same info as the code listed above. /* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/variety/reviews/film');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />";
$count++;
}
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */
/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid714034225?action=rss');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />";
$count++;
}
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */
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Just a thought - try adding 1, 2 & 3 after each $feed, $xml, $display etc. for each feed, so that the code is unique. I have not tried this, but it is worth a try
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ARRG! Sounded like a great idea, Ian, but nope, same result....
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Did a couple of tries to get multiple feeds running, but no luck so far yet 
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Hello out there. Its been a long time ago since last visit.... But i'd installed version 7.2.2 and has also struggeled with feeds in custom boxes. If you running PHP5, there is a function called simplexml_load_file which works excellent. The code generates a link, a date, and a short description with 45 chars. Replace the url to the wanted feed in $feed $feed = simplexml_load_file("http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/allenyheder");
$taeller = 0;
$antal = 5; foreach($feed->channel->item as $item){
while($taeller<$antal){
if (strlen($item->description) > 45) {
$item->description = substr($item->description , 0, 45);
}
$pubdate=strtotime($item->pubDate);
$pubtime = $html->convert_time($pubdate);
$dateinfo = <<<EOF
<span class="small">
$pubtime
</span>
EOF;
$link = utf8_decode("<a href='{$item->link}' target='_blank'>{$item->title}</a><br />");
$description= utf8_decode("{$item->description}...<br />");
$body.= <<<EOF
<tr>
<td class="{$style_side}alt-1" align="left">$link
$dateinfo <br />
$description
</td>
</tr>
EOF;
break;
}
$taeller ++;
}
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Thanks - will this work on multiple feeds? BTW - what does taeller & antal mean in English - just curious
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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I translated mine to "stories" and "count" like they are in any other feed reader ... hadn't tried it yet though
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Thanks - will this work on multiple feeds? BTW - what does taeller & antal mean in English - just curious Yes. It works on multiple feeds. I had test the script with different urls in different custom boxes taeller = counter antal = numbers $antal is a variable to decide how many items in the feed you want. Feel free to rename any variables. Remember the script requires PHP 5
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FANTASTIC, thanks for the info, Peter.
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