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Detailed Description

This is a pretty basic little RSS syndication tool for Invision Power Board 2.0.0, which outputs the last x number of posts in an RSS 2.0 feed. I've cleaned it up a bit more as of 2.1.0 to handle differing SQL installations and upgraded-boards better, and 2.1.7 fixes a bunch of encoding issues with languages other than English; it should hopefully run for more people now.

Just copy this rss.php file into the directory where your Invision 2.0.0 installation is, and tweak the settings near the top of the file (below the change history). That's all; now you should be able to point to rss.php and get the last X posts in publically readable (and non-password-protected) forums. RSS.php checks for the permission a guest would have in viewing a board, and only displays those posts.

You can also tack on a 'forum=' or 'topic=' with the appropriate ID on the end of the URL and rss.php will just syndicate the last X posts in that particular forum or topic. I use those options to make an 'RSS' link in the forum and topic views of my board. This is, in fact, the main reason I wrote the RSS syndicator instead of just using ssi.php; I wanted more flexibility in what I syndicated, and how. The demo link goes to one of my own board installations, which has links for the RSS feeds.

This can also be set up to syndicate only the last active topics, rather than the last active posts.

Enjoy! Hopefully this is useful to anyone other than me.