[REQ] RSS feeds like KW802 has, not like ConqSoft ;)

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If you have RSS enabled on your page, here's a little test.



Open up FireFox.
Go to a vBa page with RSS enabled, such as ConqSoft's (http://www.fireblades.org/)
Click the orange button at the bottom-right of your screen, the one that looks like this: http://www.footbag.org/media/524/livebookmark.gif
Subscribe and open your bookmarks.
Surprise, it fails to load!


Now do the same thing with KW802's site (http://www.coolscifi.com/). Ooo, it works!

Does anyone know how KW802 got it to work from the vBa page?

[KW802]

Does anyone know how KW802 got it to work from the vBa page?I cheated. :p

With 3.5 they have some auto-discovery features built in (haven't fully explored them yet) but with 3.0 I modified my headinclude based upon some work by 58 Sniper. You can find the thread here (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=68785). For a while 58 Sniper & I were going back and forth with how to tweak the code so if you search around for his posts you'll find some other tweaks he's done.

I can't remember how much of my headinclude template I've modified so here's a copy of mine....

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$stylevar[charset]"/>
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"/>
<meta name="generator" content="CinVin"/>
<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]"/>

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay' AND $foruminfo[description] != ''"><meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title] -- $foruminfo[description]"/><else /><meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]"/></if>

<!-- START: RSS Autodiscovery -->
<if condition="$vboptions[externalrss]">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts in all forums"/>
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != ''">
<link href="$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - Latest Posts in $foruminfo[title] "/>
</if>
</if>
<!-- END: RSS Autodiscovery -->

<!-- START: Extra tags for Opera -->
<link rel="start" href="$vboptions[homeurl]/" title="$vboptions[hometitle]"/>
<link rel="home" href="$vboptions[homeurl]" title="$vboptions[hometitle]"/>
<link rel="index" href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]" title="$vboptions[bbtitle]"/>
<link rel="search" href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]" title="$vbphrase[advanced_search]"/>
<link rel="help" href="$vboptions[bburl]/faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" title="FAQ"/>
<link rev="made" href="$vboptions[contactuslink]" title="$vboptions[webmasteremail]"/>
<link rel="author" href="$vboptions[contactuslink]" title="$vboptions[webmasteremail]"/>
<!-- END: Extra tags for Opera -->

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
$style[css]
<if condition="is_browser('opera')">
<style type="text/css">
ul, ol { padding-left:20px; }
</style>
</if>
<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var SESSIONURL = "$session[sessionurl]";
var IMGDIR_MISC = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]";
// -->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js"></script></if>

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[ConqSoft]

Mine seems to work fine with FireFox 1.5 beta using the "Live Bookmark" option anyway.

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Thank you KW802, I appreciate the help.

(and I didn't mean to single your site out Conq! Try the livebookmark from your vBa page rather than the forums - on every vBa page I've seen it fails to load.)