RSS News Feed

[Steve^]

Is it possible for you to edit the links in the News Feeds? Whilst I'd prefer the links to go to the main page and not the individual forum thread, my main annoyance is that the links go to the newest post in the thread, rather than the first post.
Often, instead of seeing the news, i see someone's comment and have to scroll back up. And to be fair, I'm not that bothered about the comments, especially not before i've read the news.

In short, can we remove the 'newpost' bit from the RSS Feed links?

 

[Chris D]

I'll get StarMonkey to have a look at this one. The feed is automatically generated from the forums though so it has to go to the forum thread. Also, the news posts on the front page don't have any anchor links so it wouldn't be possible in its current state to be able to link straight to the front page.

The other stuff should be possible. But again, it's all handled by vBulletin so we'll see what we can do.;

 

[StarMonkey]

Fixed - the problem is that it's a vbulletin rss feed which gets overwritten every time munro gets an update from vbulletin. So unless I'm told that something's been updated, we'll go back to the old style which goes to the last post.

 

[sinkoman]

Fixed - the problem is that it's a vbulletin rss feed which gets overwritten every time munro gets an update from vbulletin. So unless I'm told that something's been updated, we'll go back to the old style which goes to the last post.

All I read was "munro's fault".



God, I gotta get back into PHP.

Hey starMonkey, what exactly did you have to do (I mean EXACTLY) to get this done? Unless munro's getting an update modifies the php file that the feed links to, I don't see how that'd be possible.

 

[StarMonkey]

The rss feed (external.php) is part of vbulletin, so every time vb is updated, the file gets overwritten.

All you need to do is open external.php and find references to 'goto=newpost' and remove them all.

 

[sinkoman]

Ah.

I thought the RSS Feed was just an external XML file that you wrote yourself, seperate from VB. Had no idea it was included.