Here you go, copy this and call it rss.php and place it in the root of your forum:
<?php
/**
* BLOG:CMS: PHP/MySQL Personal Content Management System
* http://blogcms.com/
* http://forum.blogcms.com/
*
* 2003-2004, (c) Radek HULAN
* http://hulan.cz/
*
* Mod by Bert Garcia for PunBB 1.2.1
* http://nupusi.com
*
* Additional changes Copyright 2005 by Alex King
* Now creates feeds for categories, forums, topics
* http://www.alexking.org/software/
*
* Modified by Daniel Jalkut to eliminate redundant Topic and
* Message prefixes is the description output, and to include
* content in a content:encoded namespace for better formatting
* preservation. http://www.red-sweater.com/.
*
* Please see the enclosed readme.txt file for usage
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
// **********************************************************************
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
// WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
// *****************************************************************
**/
define('PUN_ROOT', './');
@include PUN_ROOT.'config.php';
// If PUN isn't defined, config.php is missing or corrupt
if (!defined('PUN'))
exit('The file \'config.php\' doesn\'t exist or is corrupt. Please run install.php to install PunBB first.');
// Disable error reporting for uninitialized variables
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
// Turn off magic_quotes_runtime
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
// Load the functions script
require PUN_ROOT.'include/functions.php';
require PUN_ROOT.'include/parser.php';
// Load DB abstraction layer and try to connect
require PUN_ROOT.'include/dblayer/common_db.php';
// Get the forum config
$result = $db->query('SELECT * FROM '.$db->prefix.'config') or error('Unable to fetch forum config', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
while ($cur_config_item = $db->fetch_row($result))
$pun_config[$cur_config_item[0]] = $cur_config_item[1];
// Make sure we (guests) have permission to read the forums
$result = $db->query('SELECT g_read_board FROM '.$db->prefix.'groups WHERE g_id=3') or error('Unable to fetch group info', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
if ($db->result($result) == '0')
exit('No permission');
// Attempt to load the common language file
@include PUN_ROOT.'lang/'.$pun_config['o_default_lang'].'/common.php';
if (!isset($lang_common)) exit('There is no valid language pack \''.$pun_config['o_default_lang'].'\' installed. Please reinstall a language of that name.');
// parse RSS
ob_start();
// make feed
/* original query
$result = $db->query(
"select p.id as id, p.message as message, p.posted as postposted, t.subject as subject ".
"from ".$db->prefix."posts as p, ".$db->prefix."topics as t ".
"where p.topic_id=t.id ".
"order by postposted desc ".
"limit 0,15")
or error('Unable to fetch forum posts', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());;
*/
if (!empty($_GET["cid"])) {
$where = " AND c.id = '".intval($_GET['cid'])."'";
$title = 'cid';
}
else if (!empty($_GET["fid"])) {
$where = " AND f.id = '".intval($_GET['fid'])."'";
$title = 'fid';
}
else if (!empty($_GET["tid"])) {
$where = " AND t.id = '".intval($_GET['tid'])."'";
$title = 'tid';
}
else {
$where = '';
$title = '';
}
$result = $db->query("
SELECT p.id AS id, p.message AS message, p.posted AS postposted, t.subject AS subject, f.forum_name, c.cat_name
FROM ".$db->prefix."posts p
LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."topics t
ON p.topic_id=t.id
INNER JOIN ".$db->prefix."forums AS f
ON f.id=t.forum_id
LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."categories AS c
ON f.cat_id = c.id
LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."forum_perms AS fp
ON (
fp.forum_id=f.id
AND fp.group_id=3
)
WHERE (
fp.read_forum IS NULL
OR fp.read_forum=1
)
$where
ORDER BY postposted DESC
LIMIT 0,15
") or error('Unable to fetch forum posts', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());;
$i = 0;
while ($cur = $db->fetch_assoc($result)) {
if ($i == 0) {
putHeader($cur, $title);
$i++;
}
putPost($cur);
}
putEnd();
// get feed into $feed
$feed = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// create ETAG (hash of feed)
$eTag = '"'.md5($feed).'"';
header('Etag: '.$eTag);
// compare Etag to what we got
if ($eTag == $_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH']) {
header("HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified");
header('Content-Length: 0');
} else {
// dump feed
header ("Content-type: text/xml");
echo $feed;
}
/* entity to unicode decimal value */
function entity_to_decimal_value($string){
static $entities_dec = false;
if (!is_array($entities_dec)) {
$entities_named = array(" ","¡","¢","£","¤","¥","¦","§","¨","©","ª","«","¬","","®","¯","°","±","²","³","´","µ","¶","·","¸","¹","º","»","¼","½","¾","¿","À","Á","Â","Ã","Ä","Å","Æ","Ç","È","É","Ê","Ë","Ì","Í","Î","Ï","Ð","Ñ","Ò","Ó","Ô","Õ","Ö","×","Ø","Ù","Ú","Û","Ü","Ý","Þ","ß","à","á","â","ã","ä","å","æ","ç","è","é","ê","ë","ì","í","î","ï","ð","ñ","ò","ó","ô","õ","ö","÷","ø","ù","ú","û","ü","ý","þ","ÿ","ƒ","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","•","…","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","™","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?",""","&","<",">","Œ","œ","Š","š","Ÿ","ˆ","˜","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","–","—","‘","’","‚","“","”","„","†","‡","‰","‹","›","€","'");
$entities_decimal = array(" ","¡","¢","£","¤","¥","¦","§","¨","©","ª","«","¬","","®","¯","°","±","²","³","´","µ","¶","·","¸","¹","º","»","¼","½","¾","¿","À","Á","Â","Ã","Ä","Å","Æ","Ç","È","É","Ê","Ë","Ì","Í","Î","Ï","Ð","Ñ","Ò","Ó","Ô","Õ","Ö","×","Ø","Ù","Ú","Û","Ü","Ý","Þ","ß","à","á","â","ã","ä","å","æ","ç","è","é","ê","ë","ì","í","î","ï","ð","ñ","ò","ó","ô","õ","ö","÷","ø","ù","ú","û","ü","ý","þ","ÿ","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?",""","&","<",">","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","?","'");
if (function_exists('array_combine'))
$entities_dec=array_combine($entities_named,$entities_decimal);
else {
$i=0;
foreach ($entities_named as $_entities_named) $entities_dec[$_entities_named]=$entities_decimal[$i++];
}
}
return preg_replace( "/&[A-Za-z]+;/", " ", strtr($string,$entities_dec) );
}
function encode_xml($data){
// line breaks
$data=str_replace('<br(.*?)>',"\n\n",$data);
// ending html tags into line breaks
$data=preg_replace("/<\/(pre|ul|li|p|table|tr)>/","\n\n",$data);
// remove other html tags
$data=preg_replace("/<(.*?)>/","",$data);
// remove multiple newlines
//$data=preg_replace("/\n\n+/","\n\n",$data);
return entity_to_decimal_value($data);
}
function putHeader($cur, $title) {
switch ($title) {
case "cid":
$title = ' : '.$cur['cat_name'];
break;
case "fid":
$title = ' : '.$cur['cat_name'].' : '.$cur['forum_name'];
break;
case "tid":
$title = ' : '.$cur['cat_name'].' : '.$cur['forum_name'].' : '.$cur['subject'];
break;
default:
$title = '';
break;
}
global $lang_common,$pun_config;
echo '<'.'?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.$lang_common['lang_encoding'].'"?'.'>'."\n";
echo "<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\">\n";
echo "<channel>\n";
echo "<title>".entity_to_decimal_value(htmlspecialchars($pun_config['o_board_title'].$title))."</title>\n";
echo "<link>".$pun_config['o_base_url']."</link>\n";
echo "<description>".entity_to_decimal_value(htmlspecialchars($rss_description.' '.$pun_config['o_board_title']))."</description>\n";
echo "<language>en</language>\n";
echo "<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs>\n";
}
function putPost($cur) {
global $pun_config;
echo "<item>\n";
echo "<title>".entity_to_decimal_value(htmlspecialchars($cur['subject'].' in '.$cur['cat_name'].' : '.$cur['forum_name']))."</title>\n";
$link = $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/viewtopic.php?pid='.strval($cur['id']).'#'.strval($cur['id']);
echo "<link>".entity_to_decimal_value(htmlspecialchars($link))."</link>\n";
echo '<guid isPermaLink="false">'.strval($cur['id']).'@'.$pun_config['o_base_url'].'</guid>'."\n";
$data = parse_message($cur['message'],0);
echo "<description>".encode_xml($data)."</description>\n";
echo "<content:encoded><![CDATA[".$data."]]></content:encoded>\n";
echo "<pubDate>".strval(date("r",$cur['postposted']))."</pubDate>\n";
echo "</item>\n";
}
function putEnd() {
echo "</channel>\n";
echo "</rss>\n";
}
?>