For those of you going more mobile, you probably already will view the boards in their iphone or WAP mode. But I was configuring Google Reader for my phone and figured many of you may not know how to use RSS from the boards.
http://ofprclan.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;sa=recent;limit=15That is what I use. The action=.xml is mandatory, but ;type= can be rdp, atom, rss, or rss2. Doesn't really matter which you pick for this really. ;sa=recent means the sub-action is only going to show "Recent Posts". ;limit=15 means it will only show 15 posts max.
You can also limit it to boards using ;board=1 which if added to my example would limit only General Discussion recent posts. If you want to display more than 1, then you must use ;boards instead. and the format is ;boards=1,2,3,4.
So if I wanted to see Calendar Events, General Discussion, Real World Issues (but only Politics), OFPR Only and Games, then I'd use something like this.
http://ofprclan.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;sa=recent;limit=15;boards=47,1,31,11,51. How do I know those numbers? Simply hover your mouse over them and the url will have "?board=58.0" or something similar. 58 would be the board number.
Thinking about it, we could easily make a front page for a site showing all of this as "news." Just need an RSS/XML Parser. Awesome.
Also if you really wanted you could display your's (or someone else's) profile summary by using something like:
http://ofprclan.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;sa=profile;u=1 (u= number being your User ID).
There's more of course, but I figure that's probably more than most of you want anyway.
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