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Old 01-16-2005
HOWTO: RSS Feeds for UNIX Forums

If you want to submit your favorite UNIX.COM forum to RSS news feeds registries or directories, here is how:

The top level RSS link to the UNIX forums is:

https://www.unix.com/external.php

This is the default for the RSS type, which is:

https://www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS

(There is also type JS for Java Script and XML)

If you are interested in a specific forum RSS, you can add the forum ID, for example, the main "Dummies" forum ID is 2, so:

https://www.unix.com/external.php?forumids=2

The forum ID can be found in the URL (f=2) for example.

Feel free to submit your favorite UNIX forum to any RSS registry and post back where you submitted our news feed.

Quote:
# Enable External Javascript
This setting allows you to enable/disable the Javascript content syndication system that allows you to embed vBulletin data in HTML pages.

If you set this option to 'yes', you can call it by going to:
https://www.unix.com/external.php?type=js

You could use javascript directly in your html pages to control the returned data.

# Enable RSS Syndication
This setting allows you to enable/disable the RSS content syndication system.

If you set this option to 'yes', you can call it by going to:
https://www.unix.com/external.php?type=rss

(example) There is a news-plugin for Trillian which lets you use RSS feeds to get the latest information posted in your trillian program.

# Enable XML Syndication
This setting allows you to enable/disable the XML content syndication system.

If you set this option to 'yes', you can call it by going to:
https://www.unix.com/external.php?type=xml
Thanks and Have Fun,

Neo
# 2  
Old 01-17-2005
Please note I have added this code to the footer that provides the link to our RSS feed based on forum id:

HTML Code:
<a href="https://www.unix.com/external.php?forumids=$forumid"><img src="images/xml.jpg" alt="[RSS]" title="UNIX Forums RSS Feed" align="right"/></a>
External links can't use the code above because the variable $forumid is not set.

For the general forum, try:

HTML Code:
<br /><a href="https://www.unix.com/external.php"><img src="images/xml.jpg" alt="[RSS]" title="UNIX Forums RSS Feed" align="right"/></a>
With the image in this attachment.
# 3  
Old 11-01-2005
Could you also add
Code:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The UNIX Forums" href="https://www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS" />

so that users, whose browsers (for ex. firefox) support this tag, could automatically subscribe the feed?
# 4  
Old 11-02-2005
(Already supported) Look at the XML button on the bottom of each page and you can see our RSS feeds are very flexible.

I uses these and they work fine in Personal Google, etc.

For example, if the link is, by default:

Code:
http//www.unix.com/external.php?forumid=5

You can add the RSS info, if required for the same results:

Code:
http//www.unix.com/external.php?forumid=5&type=RSS

or even:

Code:
http//www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS&forumid=5

It is really "up to you".... as it works fine.
# 5  
Old 11-02-2005
You did not understand me. I am talking about <link> tag used by firefox to automatically subscribe for feed.
# 6  
Old 11-02-2005
No, I don't understand you, sorry.
# 7  
Old 11-02-2005
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