RSS?

[ZaxXx]

I think it would be nice to see new posts on my desktop What do you think?

[Hobo]

I think that would be cool.

COME ON WIZARD PETER. DO YOUR JOB.

[Bullet Magnet]

Oh, I lolled at that.

[OddjobAbe]

I think it would be nice to see new posts on my desktop What do you think?

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean.

[Mojo]

RSS feed is a way to get news, tidbits and other stuff to your whatever (PDA, PC, car-radio display), without having to go to that articular site/station/whatever.

For example, you could boot up your computer, surf to some racing-website, and see how this and that driver did his race.

With RSS, it automatically sends the data to your PDA/PC/whatever.

[OddjobAbe]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[ZaxXx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

[Alcar]

RSS is now available. I'd suggest reading the vBulletin Manual regarding the External Data Provider for information about it.

Alcar...

[mitsur]

I'm confused by all the coding on this, since I'm horrible with HTML. Can someone explain it so an idiot like me can get it?

[Nate]

I think that the important part is this:

The URLS to access these feeds are:

XML - www.oddworldforums.net/external.php?type=xml
RSS - www.oddworldforums.net/external.php?type=rss
RSS 1.0 - www.oddworldforums.net/external.php?type=rss1
RSS 2.0 - www.oddworldforums.net/external.php?type=rss2

You can refine the listings by specifying forumids in the path. For multiple forums separate them with a comma. This will limit the feed to the specified forums only. (Below example uses xml as type, but it works with rss, rss2, and js too)
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/exter...rumids=1,2,3,4

Threads will be returned in descending order based on the date of their creation. Description information will be returned from the first post of the thread.

If &lastpost=1 is added to the feed URL, threads will be returned in descending order based on the date of the last post of the thread. Description information will be returned from the last post of the thread.

If you have an RSS client, set it to one of those addresses and it should work.

[Alcar]

Personally, I use: http://www.oddworldforums.net/extern...,15&lastpost=1, which only grabs me the most recently replied to threads in GD, FS&H, OT, & EL.

FireFox and Internet Explorer both have built-in methods of handling the external content providers. I would suggest that anyone using them, use RSS 2.0. JS and XML have been switched off, as they aren't required.

Alcar...

[ZaxXx]

Hey thanks!