Forum How to use external.php?
 

The 3.x manual (because there's no 4.x manual, despite the fact that we've paid for this software) gives an example of using the javascript switch for external.php and generating a "latest threads" block to insert into an external web page. However, it doesn't really describe all of the parameters we can use, and some of the ones given in 3.x threads don't seem to exist.

The 3.x example using the RSS switch doesn't seem to show the author's name in recent versions, but it does show the body text of the post. The JS examples show the author's name but there is no functionality to show the body text.

Is there a single, comprehensive description of how we can use this file with XML, RSS, RSS2, and JS? URL parameters, variables returned, everything? The standard RSS page works well but that is a complete web page; some of us just want to insert a customized version of that info into a different page and the examples don't work completely or only show one specific configuration.

Here are the most commonly cited examples, from four+ years ago:

[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS2 feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an XML feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS feed