Simple Question - how do I produce an RSS of forum posts

TimWatt

Thanks for the help earlier...

I see RSS plugins are available for esoteric things like importing forum posts but I can't see any available for promoting posts off the forum page...
Surely there must be a way to produce an RSS feed of posts as it's such an obvious need?

Any Plugins available because I can't find any for Vanilla 2?

Thanks,

Tim

ps it seems highly likely the way this board is put together anyway!

TimWatt

I see it's visible when you 'view source" - eg http://stonesfield.com/vanillaforums-Garden-8225188/discussions/feed.rss but that feed isn't showing the content of the starting discussion.
Tim

cdavid

I don't think there is such a plugin yet. But you are more than welcome to start one.

/cd

Mark

You can get an RSS feed of discussions. For example, on this forum:

http://vanillaforums.org/discussions/feed.rss

Are you looking for something else?

Mark

Oh - I see. @TimWatt - try adding a few more discussions to see if that makes a difference with the feed. If so, it is probably a bug that we can fix.

TimWatt

Right - there does seem to be a slight bug as the feed is at:

http://stonesfield.com/vanillaforums-Garden-8225188/discussions/feed.rss

but not at:

http://stonesfield.com/forum/discussions/feed.rss

Although http://stonesfield.com/forum.html#/discussions/feed.rss produces an RSS feed but not valid RSS.

Yes, subsequent test posts produce a feed, but not the first post...

Tim

@TimWatt

Looking at your forum, it seems like the feed is correctly linked. Specifically, I looked at the HTML being generated and found this:
<link href="http://stonesfield.com/vanillaforums-Garden-8225188/discussions/feed.rss" title="All Discussions - Stonesfield Web Forum" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate">

That is the correct path to the feed. I alluded to this in a previous post: the folder name "vanillaforums-Garden-822518" is automatically part of the URL. Linking to forum/discussions/feed.rss would be useless, because your vanilla install is not in a folder called forum/. Do you follow?

TimWatt

Yes, I understand that the longer url is embedded in the forum.html but I also ticked the box 'Force your forum to be viewed through the Remote Url' to the shorter one.... so expected an RSS url as suggested by Mark.
Anyway, it's working now although now i'm uncertain what "Force your forum to be viewed through the Remote Url" is doing....?
On another point, my image uploads aren't being displayed correctly.
The broken image is reference at .../vanillaforums-Garden-8225188/uploads/userpics/example.jpg

IHowever, no images have appeared in my uploads folder after adding my photo (a small jpg).....

Tim

"Force your forum to be viewed through the Remote Url" means that, if someone views a page directly on your forum, without going through your embed page in the remote application, the forum will detect this and bounce them to the same page, but viewed through your remote application.

So if someone visited http://stonesfield.com/vanillaforums-Garden-8225188/discussion/1/welcome-to-stonesfields-forum, if that box was checked you would be redirected to http://stonesfield.com/forum.html#/discussion/1/welcome-to-stonesfields-forum immediately.

You mentioned that the RSS, as viewed through the embed page, was not well formed. This makes a lot of sense because it is being viewed inside an IFRAME within your non RSS XML compliant page (HTML content, with RSS in the middle). The reason the correct URL is a direct one is so that there is no extra data surrounding the RSS.

Tim

With regard to your image uploading problem, it seems to be the exact same problem you were experiencing earlier, with your cache/Smarty/ folder. I believe your server is unable to write to folders that it creates, which is bizarre.