Display Recent Activity Elsewhere

[Peter]

How can I get recent activity to display on another page?

If I have xenforo on http://www.example.com/community
and I just want a simple recent activity displayed on http://www.example.com

Is there a recent activity feed of some type?

 

[Jake Bunce]

You can use javascript to display records from a forum feed on your external page. I don't see a JS feed in xenForo, only a RSS feed. So I think you need to use a service like feed2js to handle the XML parsing. Here is the javascript code it generated for the Announcements forum feed:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://feed2js.org//feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fxenforo.com%2Fcommunity%2Fforums%2Fannouncements%2Findex.rss&amp;chan=y&amp;num=10&amp;desc=1&amp;au=y&amp;utf=y"  charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript"></script>

If you enter this code into your web page then you will see it lists the 10 most recent threads from the Announcements forum here on xenforo.com.

A few things to note:

1) I personally don't like using a service for something like this, but I think it is necessary in the absence of a proper JS feed from xenForo. I imagine xenForo will eventually add other feed formats like JS.

2) Currently xenForo doesn't have a feed for the entire forum, only for individual forums. This has already been suggested and I imagine it will be added eventually.

 

[Peter]

You can use javascript to display records from a forum feed on your external page. I don't see a JS feed in xenForo, only a RSS feed. So I think you need to use a service like feed2js to handle the XML parsing.

Thanks for sharing Jake. So does that mean I can use it for recent activity as shown here? http://xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/

Basically I would like to do something like http://testbp.org/ but as members do something, visitors will see it in real time.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Thanks for sharing Jake. So does that mean I can use it for recent activity as shown here? http://xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/

Basically I would like to do something like http://testbp.org/ but as members do something, visitors will see it in real time.

Oh OK. That is different than what I posted. You want a feed for all forum activity, not just recent threads. There is no outgoing feed for that so you can't use simple javascript like I posted before. There are other ways to implement this but they require custom code.

If it was me I would post a request in this forum for a JS feed of recent activity.