RSS?

[Brian1d]

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Does this site have an RSS feed?

[vern]

No. It'd be cool to have an RSS feed for istorya though, but as far as I know, vBulletin is the only forum that has RSS feeds built in. It'd be pretty trivial to create RSS feeds for phpBB though ... there probably already is a mod for it.

[foreplay]

OT: para asa ang RSS? i mean the practical application.

[vern]

Syndication. So people are able to parse and use another site's content and view or make use of it somewhere else.

[foreplay]

hhhmmm... sounds useful, but can't think of a practical use... tnx for the info...

[mAlD|tO]

nindot labi nang mga data sa buy n sell na forum..

[softtouch]

rss feed would be good, because you could read the latest news from istorya with a rss reader direct from your desktop...

[adminroot]

Yeap DAKO kaayo ug tabang ang RSS (Really Simple Syndication) specially natu users nga sigi ug tanaw sa update sa forum.

Currently im using "Sharpreader" nga app para maka avail ko sa service sa CNN ug Slashdot sa ila RSS.

CNN RSS --> http://edition.cnn.com/services/rss/

Slashdot RSS --> http://slashdot.org/index.rss

Let say kung mogamit ko sa RSS sa CNN just copy the link to the reader ug iya e display ang latest nga news (mora ug email sa outlook tanawon hehehe). So u dont need to browse tanan news just to check kung unsa ang latest. Then naa pud time stamp so makita jud nimo kung unsa ang latest input.

Mora ug snippet sa news ang e display lang...kinda headlines gud.

So nindot jud unta jung naa ni sa istorya.netÂ*

Hope this helps sa kadtu ganahan mogamit sa RSS format.

[dulcepixels]

I'm also an avid user of RSS. Mostly, I read all my news and blogs updates without even going to their respective sites.

If iStorya would have one, that would such be a nifty feature that I would love.

[vern]

SMF does have RSS. SMF documentation on it is pretty slim. I am sure you can get top posts, posts by forum, and a few others.

Here is an example of most recent posts:

https://www.istorya.net/forums/index.php?action=.xml

This is quoted from the SMF forums:

All of the XML content is accessed via the ".xml" action... To get RSS or RSS2 out of that (not viewable in most browsers), add ";type=rss" or ";type=rss2" to that URL.

The default feed is the 5 most recent posts:
http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...hp?action=.xml

There are several "sub-actions" available to this action, specifying exactly what to display:

Recent Posts (displays the most recent posts that you can see)
"Sub-action": recent
Default: Shows 5 most recent posts
Available options:
limit=x - display the "x" most recent posts (if number is less than 5, it will display 5. If number is larger than 255, it will display 255).
board=y - display only the recent posts from board "y"
Example: http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...rd=72;limit=10

News (displays the first post from the most recent topics that you can see)
"Sub-action": news
Available options:
limit=x - display only "x" items
board=y - display only news topics from board "y"
Example: http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...rd=72;limit=10

Members (displays most recent members) - note: There is a bug in the current version of SMF that prevents this from working right - see Latest Members XML Problem for the fix
"Sub-action": members
Available options:
limit=x - display only the "x" most recent members
Example: http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...mbers;limit=10

Profile (displays the "profile summary" data in a nice XML feed for the specified user)
"Sub-action": profile
Required option:
u=x - display the profile info for user whose ID is "x"
Example: http://www.simplemachines.org/commun...=profile;u=150

Now - you're probably wondering what you can do with this. Quite a bit actually.

You can syndicate this stuff by giving people these URLs to use on their sites (they will need to have their own RSS parser to deal with it though - CaRP is a good free one (requires PHP)). You can also use PHP's XML Parser Functions to format the output the way you want it (although you can also do this using SSI.php).

You can also subscribe to these feeds through an XML reader, Firefox, Thunderbird or any other software that supports XML or RSS feeds (note - Outlook and Outlook Express do not support this...) - you will need to have either "type=rss" or "type=rss2" somewhere in the URL for it to work. If you would like to know how to set this up in Firefox or Thunderbird, let me know. Enjoy!