RSS Feed of category and subforums in hierarchy
 

Hi, I've noticed that you can setup RSS feeds (not stuff you pull from other sites and post in your forums), but an RSS feed of YOUR forums that users can subscribe to for summaries of posts.

I've enabled RSS, XML, Podcast etc... and have figured out how to use the external.php and the forumids parameter to get multiple forums listed in the summary.

What I would like to know, is if I can specify a single category as a forumid and have it pull everything under that category in that RSS feed.

For example:

If I have the following structure (categories capitalized and real forums in lower case), all the forumids are in brackets.


........................|-forlease(5)
............|-CONDOS(2)-|-forsale(6)
............|...........|-forrent(7)
............|
............|...........|-forlease(8)
PROPERTY(1)-|-HOUSES(3)-|-forsale(9)
............|...........|-forrent(10)
............|
............|-APPARTMENTS(4)-|-forrend(11)
............|................|-forlease(12)


In the above example, PROPERTY, CONDOS, HOUSES and APPARTMENTS are all categories, with all the forsale, forlease, forrent forums under the respective categories.

If I wanted to create an RSS feed that encompases the entire PROPERTY category, I would prefer to do the following:

http://xxxxxx.com/forums/external.ph...ds=1&type=RSS2

But instead, I seem to have to do the following:
http://xxxxxx.com/forums/external.php?forumids=5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12&type=RSS2

This is very tedious when you have a large hierarchy and you must modify the URL each time you add or remove a forum. If you could just specify the parent category and have it automatically include all sub forums that would be much better.

Is this possible (because if it is, I'm not getting how to do it). If not, will it be included in future versions, or does anyone know of a hack on vbulletin.org to do this?


Finally, if none of this is possible... Is it at least possible to quickly get comma delimited list of all forumids under a given category? (even if it means an SQL statement, that's fine).

Thanks,

ErnestA