This plugin is a simple mod that relies on mod_rewrite to offer search engine/rss bots friendly feed urls. It relies on mybb's implementation of RSS, but it adds the required feed data in the HTML. Using this plugin, you can get the 'live bookmark' icon, when using Mozilla FireFox 1.5, whenever you load the board index or any specific forum on your board.

I) Requirements:

• Webserver supporting .htaccess (do not ask me why it's a requirement. I just don't like cake without cream -- although weight and cream relationship is another story)
• MyBB 1.1 (sorry if I confused you, but don't expect this plugin to work with another forum software, or even worse a windows application .)
  

II) What it Does?

Not a big deal here, it just adds the RSS links embedded in HTML on Board Index and all the Forums.

Example of data added in html:

III) How to install:

1. Download and extract rss.php from rss_plugin.zip

2. Open up your favorite FTP software, browse to your forum_dir/inc/plugins. (sorta straightforward)

3. It would nice if you could chmod your main forum directory and/or .htaccess file to 0777 for now. (remember to revert it back to it's original settings if you change it for the directory). However, this isn't necessary.

4. Go to your Admin CP -> Plugin Manager, and activate the rss plugin.

5. If the rss plugin function cannot write to the .htaccess file, it will give you the code that you should place in your .htaccess file.

That's it. A pretty too descriptive? It's not that I was in a chatty mood or had a lot of time, but anyways, I was just feeling like writing up something descriptive for a plugin as simple as this.

Download URL: http://spicefuse.com/mybb_mods/rss_plugin.zip
Live Demo: This forum
Version: 1.0

05-23-2006 02:04 PM