Incorporate an RSS feed in post: Possible?

[Big Dan]

I'm not sure exactly how to explain this:

I want to take the RSS feed of another forum I own and put it into a thread that would auto update. My idea is to have the 5 most recent post titles [of the other forum] in a vb thread auto updated based on the other forums RSS feed. If it helps the other forum is phpBB with an RSS hack.

Off the top of my head, I read a tutorial once on how to make php grab an RSS feed and display it but vB would probably just display the raw text.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

[Hell³]

You might need something like this?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=108400

[Noppid]

I do it like this with news feeds using CARP RSS. The feed can be any vB forum as well.

Computer Help News (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12)

[Noppid]

You might need something like this?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=108400

Nice hack layout. But, using a form like that, I think it kinda shoots any seo value in the foot.

[Hell³]

Ah, ok then, if it is important for them to be on threads, then I believe noppid's way is much better. I even like the format much more than vBulletin's default RSS poster robot.

Can you give some pointers on how to implement something like what you have noppid?

[Noppid]

It's pretty simple. First it finds the day of the week numerically. Then it looks at a switch statement to choose the news topic for that day of the week. It pulls the feed with CARP RSS. It formats the data for a post and posts it using the data manager class to start a thread. It is scheduled using the cron manager in vB.