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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?

2

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.

3

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

4

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 :wink:

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 
$cdfeed = "[http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/external.php?type=XML](http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/external.php?type=XML)"; 
$fp = fopen($cdfeed, "r") or die("<b>Unable read ChiefDelphi feed!</b>
"); 
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\">
"; 
		} 
	} 
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 ($name == "thread"){ 
			   print "</a>
"; 
		} 
	if ($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.

?>
5

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