RSS Feed available

[Chano]

You are now able to get the latest posts from the forum into your favorite RSS reader. This could be Mozilla Firefox' live bookmarks, IE7, Mozilla Thunderbird, Netvibes, iGoogle, your own website (Either by parseing the feed yourself, or by using a service like rss2javascript)

You can have the feed in 3 formats, atom, RSS and RSS2, with a minimum of 5 posts, and a max of 30.

The default is to deliver an RSS2 feed with the last 10 posts.

Here is some examples:

RSS2 feed with last 10 posts: http://offmb.nikkiwebster.dk/feed.php

RSS2 feed with last 20 posts: http://offmb.nikkiwebster.dk/feed.php?limit=20

Atom feed with the last 5 posts: http://offmb.nikkiwebster.dk/feed.php?limit=5&type=atom

The feed shows ALL forums (Except for admins only forums), even though you don't have an account. However, the full text of the posts will be truncated to just 75 characters, to satisfy picky RSS clients.

[Leanne]

Seems like a cool feature, but I'm still not exactly sure why someone would want it...?? Maybe you can enlighten me?

[tournamentmaster2000_au]

you don't have to log in???

[Chano]

Seems like a cool feature, but I'm still not exactly sure why someone would want it...?? Maybe you can enlighten me?

Well, if you are using feeds already, it's nice to have as much of the things you check daily, as a feed. In that way you only need to check one place.

you don't have to log in???

Correct, the script is using a special account to login and receive a feed of all the forums, unlike the default feed the SMF software generates. The feed.php script I've made, is basicly a wrapper for logging in, and requesting the feed.

Alternately you'd only get the latest responses in the two categories that does not require login, and it would look like nothing happens on the forum.

You'll still have to login to actually read the posts (75 characters are hardly enough for any post.)

[tournamentmaster2000_au]

well, at least we can see where the latest posts have gone.