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Does anyone know a php code or a mod that can parse the rss feed URL you get from the Forum's RSS Syndication? I want to have the latest forum posts from one of my forum's sections to appear on the main page of my website.

Hey,

Find a third party RSS reader script for your site and then goto [your forum url]/misc.php?action=syndication

Select the forums you want post to show in the feed and click generate syndication url which then you can use with the RSS reader script.

Is there a built in function to strip the tags from posts instead of going to RSS feed route?

Edit: added img tag stripping

function StripMyBBTags($Post)
{
	// ** Strip HR
	$Post = str_replace('[hr]', '', $Post);
	
	// ** Strip Quotes
	$QuoteIndex = strpos($Post, '[quote=');
	while($QuoteIndex!==false)
	{
		$QuoteLength = (strpos($Post, '[/quote]', $QuoteIndex) - $QuoteIndex) + 8;
		$Post = substr_replace($Post, '', $QuoteIndex, $QuoteLength);
		
		$QuoteIndex = strpos($Post, '[quote=');
	}
	$Post = str_replace('[/quote]', '', $Post);

	// ** Strip Images
	$ImageIndex = strpos($Post, '[img]');
	while($ImageIndex!==false)
	{
		$ImageLength = (strpos($Post, '[/img]', $ImageIndex) - $ImageIndex) + 6;
		$Post = substr_replace($Post, '', $ImageIndex, $ImageLength);
		
		$ImageIndex = strpos($Post, '[img]');
	}
	$Post = str_replace('[/img]', '', $Post);

	// ** Strip URL
	$URLIndex = strpos($Post, '[url=');
	if($URLIndex!==false)
	{
		$URLCloseIndex = strpos($Post, ']', $URLIndex);
		$Post = substr_replace($Post, '', $URLIndex, ($URLCloseIndex - $URLIndex) + 1);
		$Post = str_replace('[/url]', '', $Post);
	}
	
	// ** Strip Size
	$SizeIndex = strpos($Post, '[size=');
	if($SizeIndex!==false)
	{
		$SizeCloseIndex = strpos($Post, ']', $SizeIndex);
		$Post = substr_replace($Post, '', $SizeIndex, ($SizeCloseIndex - $SizeIndex) + 1);
		$Post = str_replace('[/size]', '', $Post);
	}

	// ** Strip Font
	$FontIndex = strpos($Post, '[font=');
	if($FontIndex!==false)
	{
		$FontCloseIndex = strpos($Post, ']', $FontIndex);
		$Post = substr_replace($Post, '', $FontIndex, ($FontCloseIndex - $FontIndex) + 1);
		$Post = str_replace('[/font]', '', $Post);
	}

	// ** Strip common formatting
	$Post = str_replace('[b]', '', $Post);
	$Post = str_replace('[/b]', '', $Post);
	$Post = str_replace('[u]', '', $Post);
	$Post = str_replace('[/u]', '', $Post);
	$Post = str_replace('[i]', '', $Post);
	$Post = str_replace('[/i]', '', $Post);
	
	return $Post;
}

My carudden nice addition and I hope to take advantage of them
Gary Experience

Pleasure, hopefully we can all add to it, so that we can get a definitive function. The code is a bit hacky. I'm sure some guru will come with a preg_replace one-liner

carudden, what exactly does your code do and where do I put it at?

Quote:Find a third party RSS reader script for your site and then goto [your forum url]/misc.php?action=syndication

I've no idea where an ideal third party RSS reader script is. I've seen a few but they all aren't up to par. They've got links at the end of the parsing that say "Subscribe to this" and their parse style is plain.

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Eh..I've found out how to use Simplepie...gonna switch my site's CMS since my current one is no longer compatible with Simplepie.

(2009-04-29, 03:49 PM)windrider07 Wrote: [ -> ]carudden, what exactly does your code do and where do I put it at?

I have a sql query against the myBB database directly:

Quote:SELECT
pos.tid,
pos.pid,
pos.subject,
pos.message,
pos.uid,
pos.username
FROM mybb_posts pos
ORDER BY pos.dateline DESC
LIMIT 0,4

The I simply execute the function sending in the message:

$Message = StripMyBBTags(mysql_result($result, $i, "message"));

ps. I've updated the function to strip images.