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#55028
12/26/2002 8:22 AM
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Hi, I kinda know this is early in the game, (6.4 came out of beta xmas day) but, for my purposes the xml output is really, really handy.
What would be nice is to have a mod that would dump some or all of the message body, & the date to the xml file. Currently its just the message title, author & link.
Now my knowledge of perl is fairly bad. I think I have isolated the files that are used but buggered if I can figure out how to modify them..
It looks at first glance kinda easy, but I think its more than just modding the xml template.
Well if anyone wants to figure this out it would be great!
Cheers!
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#55029
12/26/2002 9:32 AM
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Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 745
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This was one of the first suggestions that was made when 6.4 went Public Beta.
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#55030
12/26/2002 1:48 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
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You can't get the message body out of the data that creates the RSS files, but you can get the creation / last post date, etc. Doing this without Perl knowledge will indeed be a little rough. Are you willing to learn how to read Perl?  I've always wanted an excuse to write a quick & dirty tutorial.
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#55031
12/27/2002 5:17 PM
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Joined: Dec 2002
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I have a SAMS Learn Perl in 24 hours Manual, (I have started reading...) However my time is currently spent using other languages, which due to my job I have to specialise in.
Sub Zero - Not a suggestion for content Islands > a suggestion to get more data into the XML files UBB 6.4 creates.
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#55032
12/27/2002 9:13 PM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,849
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I would love to see a tutorial Charles.
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#55033
12/28/2002 5:34 PM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 729
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quote: Originally posted by Charles Capps: Doing this without Perl knowledge will indeed be a little rough. Are you willing to learn how to read Perl? I've always wanted an excuse to write a quick & dirty tutorial.I put up the suggestion of current coders to do something jsut like this in ChitChat as there are many of us that want to learn just ther is very little in the way of UBB variables.
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#55034
12/28/2002 11:30 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
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I'm not talking about UBB vars here - I'm talking about learning how to read Perl.  I'm neck-deep in work right now, unfortunately... I've penciled this in for my next article in the U-zine. (The current article in the works is "Stupid Content Island Tricks" )
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#55035
12/29/2002 3:12 AM
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Posts: 729
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Perl in general would be nice. Picking up the variables would not be that difficult. Of course I can understand that the 1 man UBB coding machine is a bit on the busy side 
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