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sammy sandbag · Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

Anybody have an idea how this would work:

I would like to have all my blogs imported into a predetermined forum on my board using the PHPBB MOD FIND (Form Integrated News Delivery) which can be found here. It basically takes a rss/xml feed and inserts it into a new topic in a phpbb forum.

I want to do this rather than use a b2 archive, just have all my blogs routed to the forum via the rss. I'm pretty sure this will work but I'm new to this and I can't find much documentation on b2's RSS capabilities.

Thanks in advance
-Sammy

sammy sandbag · Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

Okay maybe I asked the wrong question for this forum, but maybe someone can answer this.

Can I create seperat RSS/XML feeds per blog user so the each users blogs will be fed to a different rss feed or file per user. Not sure if that is possible or how it would work.

Where can I get actual documentation on how b2 uses the rss feature. I didn't see anything about it in the readme file.

Thanks

Candle · Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Posts: 547

I use this to grab rss feeds http://www.tidakada.com/cafeRSS/ you could just maybe add the users id to the feed to grab the rss .
Read the readme that comes with it and it will do what you want I think .
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sammy sandbag · Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

Well i'm actually trying to create seperate rss feeds per user so that they can be fed to different users in my forum using the priviously mentioned phpbbmod. thanks

Candle · Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Posts: 547

sammy sandbag · Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

Thanks for the help Candle, but I'm still confused as to how to do this. I'm not actually trying to grab the rss feed but produce it.

I already have the b2rss.php file and it works great with the earlier mentioned phpbb MOD, but I still need to have a rss feed per blog user. say b2rss_user1.php and b2rss_user2.php with each only producing that respective users blogs.

So I'm not sure how I would do this, I'm guessing I would have to alter b2rss.php so that is would only produce output from a predetermined user.

Not sure if that makes since, but that's the best I can do. I'm pretty new to most of this, so learning as I go.

Thanks in advance,
Sammy

[Edit: I have figured it out, so don't worry about replying to this post with suggestions. I simply fixed a bug in the header file that wasn't allowing me to use querystrings with the b2rss.php file]

flickerfly · Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 49

Could you post an example of what you did and would this same method work to separate categories?
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sammy sandbag · Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 5

I simply used the same type of query string that you would use to look up an actual blog, but I put it on the end of the b2rss.php. Here's an example:

http://www.aisforarmy.com/blog/b2rss.php?author=3&cat=11

You just have to know the category number. Hope that helps.

flickerfly · Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 49