excluding catgories from the RSS feed

[ThinkBusiness +]

Solve one problem and another one comes up!

I would like to exclude a category from the rss feed, how would this be possible?

I have gone through the documentation for the rss feed but cannot find anything or any way to do that.

"(integer) An integer of a single category you want to display. "

I thought I could then add all the categories except the one I don't require:

external.php?category=1+category=2
external.php?category=1&category=2
external.php?category=1%category=2
external.php?category=1,category=2

Tried everything but couldn't do it that way.

Is there any way to exclude a category from the rss feed something like:

external.php?excludecategory=3


Any help would be appreciated!

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

That is an interesting concept and one I've not heard before, unfortunately that kind of functionality isn't built into the script.

The script itself would need to be modified in order to achieve that. If you're good with php, I'm sure it could be done. If you attempt to do that, make sure you work from a copy of the file though.

[ThinkBusiness +]

Thanks Mike,

The challenge was that the rss was being used to display a "latest ad" elsewhere on the site, (non 68c controlled) and we decided to use 68c to have bars listings as there are so many.

As the bars were not exactly an advert we wanted to exclude them, afor now as it is not an essential need we will just back date the bars listings so that they do not appear as "latest adverts".

Thanks!

[seymourjames +]

You may like to consider the external listings module and the external search results module. These give you a lot of control over display of adverts on other webs sites. In the latter module, anything you can construct through the search function can be framed into another site.