CD Feed

[Robby]

I was looking through the php script found in the nrg.chaosnet.org repository and was trying to figure out how to access the thread id value so that i could create a link to that specific thread using the url chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=[the desired thread #]. Is this possible? or is there some other way of doing it?

[Jeremy_Mc]

I was looking through the php script found in the nrg.chaosnet.org repository and was trying to figure out how to access the thread id value so that i could create a link to that specific thread using the url chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=[the desired thread #]. Is this possible? or is there some other way of doing it?

You would have to use an RSS parser I think...

I have one made up that's going on our new site...if anyone would like, I can post it in the White Papers.

It's really just a modded version of what Brandon had up here before i beileve...I'd have to look again.

[Brandon Martus]

You want the threadid via the XML? .. or you want to get it just by browsing?

I was looking through the php script found in the nrg.chaosnet.org repository and was trying to figure out how to access the thread id value so that i could create a link to that specific thread using the url chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=[the desired thread #]. Is this possible? or is there some other way of doing it?

[Guest]

Here's some new code that links to the correct CD thread.

Unfortunately, the external.xml that CD provides only gives the thread's author, not the post's author. I hope this changed soon ;)

You can see the following code in action at: http://nrg.chaosnet.org/resource/programming/cdfeed/cdfeed.php

The code is also stored in the repository, as usual...

<?php
// If you want to use this PHP code, provide credit to [removed]
$cdfeed = "http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/external.php?type=XML";
$fp = fopen($cdfeed, "r") or die("<b>Unable read ChiefDelphi feed!</b>\n");
while(!feof($fp))
{
$xmld = $xmld.fgets($fp, 1024);
}
$open_stack = array();
$atts_stack = array();
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($parser, "start_handler", "end_handler");
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, "character_handler");
xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
xml_parse($parser, $xmld);
xml_parser_free($parser);
function start_handler($p, $name, $atts)
{
global $open_stack;
global $atts_stack;
global $cdthreads;
$open_stack[] = array($name,"",$atts);
if ($name == "thread"){
$cdthreads[]=array("id"=>$atts['id'],"title"=>"","auth"=>"","time"=>0,"date"=>0);
$id=$atts['id'];
print "<a href=\"<A href="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$id\">n">http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$id\">\n";
}
}
function character_handler($p, $txt)
{
global $open_stack;
$cur_index = count($open_stack)-1;
$open_stack[$cur_index][1].=$txt;
}
function end_handler($p, $name)
{
global $open_stack;
$el = array_pop($open_stack);
if ($name == "thread"){
print "</a>\n";
}
if ($name == "title")
{
echo "<b>$el[1]</b><br>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['title']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "author")
{
echo "By <i>$el[1]</i>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['auth']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "date")
{
echo "On $el[1],";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['date']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "time")
{
echo " at $el[1]<p>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['time']=$el[1];
}

}
// At this point, all the threads have been printed out if PRINTOUT equaled one
// Also all the threads are stored in $cdthreads associative array.

?>

[Robby]

Thank you, this is pretty much what I was looking for.

Here's some new code that links to the correct CD thread.

Unfortunately, the external.xml that CD provides only gives the thread's author, not the post's author. I hope this changed soon ;)

You can see the following code in action at: http://nrg.chaosnet.org/resource/programming/cdfeed/cdfeed.php

The code is also stored in the repository, as usual...

<?php
// If you want to use this PHP code, provide credit to [removed]
$cdfeed = "http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/external.php?type=XML";
$fp = fopen($cdfeed, "r") or die("<b>Unable read ChiefDelphi feed!</b>\n");
while(!feof($fp))
{
$xmld = $xmld.fgets($fp, 1024);
}
$open_stack = array();
$atts_stack = array();
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($parser, "start_handler", "end_handler");
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, "character_handler");
xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
xml_parse($parser, $xmld);
xml_parser_free($parser);
function start_handler($p, $name, $atts)
{
global $open_stack;
global $atts_stack;
global $cdthreads;
$open_stack[] = array($name,"",$atts);
if ($name == "thread"){
$cdthreads[]=array("id"=>$atts['id'],"title"=>"","auth"=>"","time"=>0,"date"=>0);
$id=$atts['id'];
print "<a href=\"<A href="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$id\">n">http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$id\">\n";
}
}
function character_handler($p, $txt)
{
global $open_stack;
$cur_index = count($open_stack)-1;
$open_stack[$cur_index][1].=$txt;
}
function end_handler($p, $name)
{
global $open_stack;
$el = array_pop($open_stack);
if ($name == "thread"){
print "</a>\n";
}
if ($name == "title")
{
echo "<b>$el[1]</b><br>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['title']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "author")
{
echo "By <i>$el[1]</i>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['auth']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "date")
{
echo "On $el[1],";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['date']=$el[1];
}
if ($name == "time")
{
echo " at $el[1]<p>";
$cdthreads[count($cdthreads)-1]['time']=$el[1];
}

}
// At this point, all the threads have been printed out if PRINTOUT equaled one
// Also all the threads are stored in $cdthreads associative array.

?>