I used phpbb seo mod rewrite so that this:

site.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=919&p=1182#p1182

becomes:

site.com/forums/category/title/

This works fine, except that elsewhere on my site I use the RSS feed to show links to recent posts, it goes something like this:

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<?
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.nextadvisor.com/forums/feed.php?f=15");
?>

<h1><?=$xml->entry[0]->category->attributes()->term?> Forum Posts</h1>

<ul><?
for ($i = 0; $i < count($xml->entry); $i++) {
   $link=$xml->entry[$i]->link->attributes()->href;
   $title = mb_convert_encoding((string) $xml->entry[$i]->title,"ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
   $title=str_replace($xml->entry[0]->category->attributes()->term.' ? ','',$title);
   $content = explode('Statistics: Posted by',(string) $xml->entry[$i]->content);   
   $content= mb_convert_encoding($content[0],"ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
   if (preg_match('/^.{1,150}\b/s', $content, $match)){
   $content=strip_tags($match[0]);
}
echo '<li>'.$xml->entry[$i]->link->attributes()->href.'</li>';   

?></ul>

This works fine except it gives links that look like "site.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=919&p=1182#p1182". I want to make my RSS feed show the new links. When other people asked a similar question, they were pointed towards GYM sitemaps and RSS. I don't need a sitemap, isn't there some way I can just look up the forum URL's in the db?

Why use the RSS code to generate the last n posts when there's already mods for that? I searched using http://www.google.com/search?q=phpbb-seo+recent+posts and found helpful discussions.

Oh that didn't occur to me! Thank you!

I don't see which of these does exactly what I want though. "No duplicates" doesn't effect the RSS feed does it?

Yes and no. You may have RSS URLs that differ from your "live" board URLs, but once the user visits the link, they'll end up in the same place if the zero dupe is active. I'm not aware of any "penalty" for RSS feed URLs not matching the live board URLs, assuming of course they all redirect to the same place.