News RSS in sidebar (Design/Themes)
You explained how to show the latest topics on my website. Actually I want to do it the other way round. I want to add rss feeds of my website news stories on the sidebar of the forum.
OK, I see! Well, generally the code has to be separated into a program part and a display part. The program part (e.g. in includes/index.inc.php) would be something like this:
// include Magpie RSS: require('path/to/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc'); // set charset: define("MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING", "UTF-8"); // read the RSS Feed: $rss = fetch_rss('URL_OF_THE_RSS_FEED'); // pass the data to Smarty: $smarty->assign("rss_items",$rss->items);
The template code (e.g. in templates/defult/subtemplates/index.tpl.inc) should then read this way:
<ul> {foreach from=$rss_items item=rss_item} <li><a href="{$rss_item.link}">{$rss_item.title}</a></li> {/foreach} </ul>
Alex