Question Enhanced Kunena RSS Feed

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at present the links do not work in the rss feed as they start with a questionmark after the /forum...

Marc

Ah yes, I see. What I did was I installed sh404sef on my test site. I then installed this sh404sef addon by uploading the files and following the readme. I then enabled sh404sef (without .htaccess support). After doing that I refreshed my rss feed and the links appear as SEF links:
Does this help? Maybe toggling your SEF settings (Joomla's builtin SEF) may help as well.

The problem I found with help of the 1.50b template was that the SEF call in the RSS feed was not working, as well as many other hardcoded links in the old templates. The above hack of setting the second parameter to 1 caused only any unencoded & symbols in the URL to get replaced by & and nothing else.

The bigger issue is for full SEF conversion, JRoute::_() requires the path be passed in without the http://domain.com:// prefix or it gets passed through untouched. So instead of rewriting the old template files to use new defines, I added the new classes from the 1.50b template into the kunena.link.class.php file, replaced the SEF call in the RSS file with a CKunenalink::getRssUrl() call, and changed GetSefHrefLink() like this:


function GetSefHrefLink($link, $name, $title, $rel, $class ='', $anker='', $attr=''){
$link = JRoute::_('index.php?' . end(explode('?',$link)));
return '<a '.($class ? 'class="'.$class.'" ' : '').'href="'.$link.($anker?('#'.$anker):'').'" title="'.$title.'"'.($rel ? ' rel="'.$rel.'"' : '').($attr ? ' '.$attr : '').'>'.$name.'</a>';
}

which is not the optimal solution, but it worked. Now I have working RSS feeds for the threads.

But the RSS link also appears on the recent posts and categories pages, because it is inserted in the footer from kunena.php, so the RSS is available on all pages including categories and recent posts. I haven't looked in detail, but would I be right in thinking catid gets set in the last category on the 'list category' page, so only the last category gets into the RSS feed from the category view?

I am not familiar with Kunena 1.5's implementation of RSS in categories so I can't comment but your assessment sounds correct

Hi, I would like to point out that RSS have always be a kind of issue for me too. I don't know exactly what is going on but each time I upgrade the forum, it is broken and I have to spend a lot of time in configuration panel or in the php code itself to find a way to make it work correctly.
By the way, the strange thing is that when I click on the icon at the
bottom of the forum, firefox always display the RSS fine but when I
try to import it in netvibes or iGoogle, I got a message ``no RSS
available'' or ``rss not valid'' ....

There is also a universal issue with the suffix:

&nohtml=1

There is a link the bottom of the 'subsribe feed' pages "show all" which does so by appending an empty anchor (#). If SEf is on the url becomes

nohtml/1/

or similar. The anchor then becomes

&nohtml1#

or

nohtml/1/#

so regardless swhether SEF is on or not, the link doesn't work. The same applies for links to individual topics in the subscription feed. The easy solution is to remove the suffix "&nohtml=1" or "&nohtml=0" from all generated RSS links. If the content is XHTML-transitional compliant it isn't needed anyway.