AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!

[CyberRanger]

Genius mod :)

However is there any way to make more $myfeeds $myfeeds1 $myfeeds2 $myfeeds3 $myfeeds4 $myfeeds5 and so on ?


So my forum is set up with difrent skin colors based on Categorys
I want seperate rss sidebars for every skin.

$myfeeds
$myfeeds1
$myfeeds2
$myfeeds3
..That not currently possible. I could show you how to do it but you'd have to make a lot of modifications to the code (php and plugins) and create db tables for each extra myfeed you'd want to add.

[CyberRanger]

Sure... what things will you need access to in the AdminCP... just trying to save a step.
I only need to be able to see the AboutToday section. Maybe your installed products too. I'm thinking you have another hack that deals with creating threads that sometimes causes a problem with this mod trying to create threads.

When I try to login to the admincp now, it accepts my login, looks like its going to go to the admincp, then comes back to the admincp login screen.

[sjcctan]

Yes, it will. :-)

I have installed your Add-on. But it didn't show up in my forum. Please take a look here (http://forum.ipoh.com.my). Why? :confused:

[jzewatsky]

CyberRanger,

Thanks for taking the time to write this up!

Back on page 42, it appears that you were able to help CodeRed trouble shoot the $myfeedsdetail variable not being displayed. Do you happen to remember the fix, I'm running into an identical trouble.

[CyberRanger]

CyberRanger,

Thanks for taking the time to write this up!

Back on page 42, it appears that you were able to help CodeRed trouble shoot the $myfeedsdetail variable not being displayed. Do you happen to remember the fix, I'm running into an identical trouble.
I think I remember (and it's an easy fix) but could you post your abouttoday_myfeeds plugin here? (or PM me your site url with an admin login and password)

[sjcctan]

I have installed your Add-on. But it didn't show up in my forum. Please take a look here (http://forum.ipoh.com.my). Why? :confused:

I am sorry! The permissions for users weren't set. It is OK now.

Thank you so much!

[x YNWA x]

Hello, installed this and its working fine on forum itself, we have a portal on our homepage (www.pesforum.co.uk), its vBa CMPS . Im just wondering how I go about displaying the news on the forum portal too? Thanks

[CyberRanger]

Hello, installed this and its working fine on forum itself, we have a portal on our homepage (www.pesforum.co.uk), its vBa CMPS . Im just wondering how I go about displaying the news on the forum portal too? Thanks
add-on https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=108274 for vba cmps.

[Dave Hawley]

Thanks again CR, nice job.

Is there anyway to let the "Add Event" posting allow HTML?

[x YNWA x]

I have 1 problem with it on my forum page its www.pesforum.co.uk/forum

Basically at the bottom all the feeds are one big list, is there a way I can get them into columns side by side to each other, I know I can do this for the variable option but doesnt give the option for the default settings, thanks for the help

[x YNWA x]

Also another question is how do I setup the "Include this Feed in $myfeeds2 variable" and "Include this Feed in $myfeeds3 variable" options?

Would like rss feeds about something else say at the bottom of my homepage to go with the ones on the right, how would I add the no2 variable and no3 into the portal? thanks

[venomx]

Hey mccollin you have a bug on your forum index..

Welcome to the NorthEastFoto.com.
Welcome to the [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] forums.

[x YNWA x]

I really need some help on this please.

I have 6 feeds now and they are all in one big list at the bottom of the site, is there any way I can get them into colums like I can with the variable 1 option? Thanks

[demojames]

Marked as installed with no problems! Thanks for a great mod!

[towermatt]

This is amazing, I installed it quickly with no problems.

One piece of advice for anyone who wants to put it on...

read this thread, top to bottom. Your questions will be answered and if you say you don't have time, that's pretty rough for a free modification.

[deezelpope]

Well said, Towermatt! This was one of the first mods I installed, and it was a walk in the park! I LOVE this mod!!:D

[towermatt]

I think I remember (and it's an easy fix) but could you post your abouttoday_myfeeds plugin here? (or PM me your site url with an admin login and password)

Absolutly!!

But, I was wondering if anyone got a solve to this? Mine doesn't show either

feel free to check out the great page I created from this--very fun.

http://www.thedarktower.com/feeds

[Dave Hawley]

The 1st few I checked were working just fine.

[towermatt]

Oh yeah, the feeds are perfect.

Whole thing is wonderful. Its just that $myfeedsdetail variable that is supposed to populate if it is checked on the feed (and also set to yes in the settings)

From what I have read, its supposed to display the entire story if you have it going. Like the view you get if you click the link.

I wanted to use it as a mod on that CMPS page above to act as like a "front page" kind of graphic.

Great the way it is, would be perfect with that little bit. All the $myfeeds, $myfeeds2 and $myfeeds3 variables worked like a charm after I created the forum templates and modules for them.

[CyberRanger]

Oh yeah, the feeds are perfect.

Whole thing is wonderful. Its just that $myfeedsdetail variable that is supposed to populate if it is checked on the feed (and also set to yes in the settings)
If you look at the plugin abouttoday_myfeeds:

FIND
$myfeedsdetail .= '<td valign="top">'.$rssfeeds['desc'].'</td>';

change to
$myfeedsdetail .= '<td valign="top">'.$rssfeeds['description'].'</td>'; I think that will get it working.

[towermatt]

WOOHOO!!

Now that is the cherry on the cake there. Worked perfectly. Great mod, great support

[JeffreySmith]

Sick Mod I really love it.

I recently moved my forum from one domain to the other. The feeds are still pulling from the old site (which is fine for me) but the problem is I keep having to update the thread counters every time a new post is generated by About Today. Otherwise if I don't I just get the "invalid link, please contact the admin" message.

Is there something I can do, anyone?

oh yeah....

Also I got another problem with adding the $myfeeds variable. Do I just place that in the right side column code by itself or do I need some more code to get the feeds to show up?

Thanks

[Dave Hawley]

CyberRanger, I've using this on 3.5.4 for about 1 month now without any hitch. Now all of a sudden I'm getting about 100 lines of;

Warning: Division by zero in /global.php(334) : eval()'d code on line 140

I have even tried disabling all other plugins I'm using, but it still bugs out. The only way to stop it is to disable AboutToday.

Thanks for any help.

[wolf32]

Hmmm, I seem to be having a problem. I have Welcome Headers (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119572&highlight=COmmunity+registration) enabled and when I access 'AboutToday' as a member of my board then I get the standard guest welcome message. I'm trying to get rid of the welcome message.

Any suggestions???

Edit: In your first screenie how did you get "Latest Disucssion for AboutToday" to display? Thanks

[CyberRanger]

Hmmm, I seem to be having a problem. I have Welcome Headers (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119572&highlight=COmmunity+registration) enabled and when I access 'AboutToday' as a member of my board then I get the standard guest welcome message. I'm trying to get rid of the welcome message.

Any suggestions???Not off the top of my head. One of my boards runs both and I'm not seeing that issue. Let me ponder it!



Edit: In your first screenie how did you get "Latest Disucssion for AboutToday" to display? Thanks
In the admincp -> AboutToday -> Settings -> "Talk About It Items to Display" controls that.

[wolf32]

Not off the top of my head. One of my boards runs both and I'm not seeing that issue. Let me ponder it!

Maybe a browser issue on my side?


In the admincp -> AboutToday -> Settings -> "Talk About It Items to Display" controls that.

Doh! why didn't I think of that. Thanks.

[amigos]

Excellent plug in.
I have some problems with some feeds containig greek characters. There seeme to be incorrect codepage, double characters etc. Is there any quick solution for that ?

[mrkiwi]

yup, same codepage problem, my forum is windows-1251 (russian) and all of the feeds are utf-8 )
so, if i do nothing, all the new autocreated threads go with a mess of symbols instead of names, if i make my forum utf-8, it becomes a mess of strange characters, but new blogposts become correctly displayed

p.s. sorry for my eng )

[CyberRanger]

Excellent plug in.
I have some problems with some feeds containig greek characters. There seeme to be incorrect codepage, double characters etc. Is there any quick solution for that ?

sorry, no quick solution. I'm afraid this has been a problem for awhile and I'm not sure how to solve it.:(

[wolf32]

I seem to be having a problem. If you look here (http://www.u-connex.com/forum.php) and scroll down to the forums "Newsroom", "TV Fans" or "Gaming News" and click on the thread (rather than the forum), it leads me to this (http://www.u-connex.com/showthread.php?p=0#post0) page. These are the only forums that have "Automatically Create Threads" enabled.

Any idea?

[CyberRanger]

I seem to be having a problem. If you look here (http://www.u-connex.com/forum.php) and scroll down to the forums "Newsroom", "TV Fans" or "Gaming News" and click on the thread (rather than the forum), it leads me to this (http://www.u-connex.com/showthread.php?p=0#post0) page. These are the only forums that have "Automatically Create Threads" enabled.

Any idea? I'm not sure why this happens. I've seen it occasionally. Try doing admincp -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Thread Information. I think that will fix it. If not, try rebuilding forum information.

[wolf32]

Worked thanks. :)

[vBFanJeff]

I'm having trouble with this updating my RSS feeds. I tried looking in this thread but there are so many posts I wasn't sure if any of them had a fix. The RSS updates are not working in BOTH vB and vBA areas so both my forums and the CMPS is messed up. It did work for a few days, but all of a sudden it's stuck now.

I'm using the most current versions of vB and vBA. Any thoughts on this or has anyone else had this happen. If I can't get it to work then I'll have to uninstall the mod. :(

[CyberRanger]

I'm having trouble with this updating my RSS feeds.(
This is almost always related to a problem with a site you are trying to get a feed from. I'd suggest taking the url (that you've entered in AboutToday), pasting it into a web browser, and seeing if an xml output is returned.

If you want, post some of your url's here and I'll test them out for you to show you what I mean.

[vBFanJeff]

Thanks, I checked and some are updating OK now, others still having issues. They are big sites like MLB sports, News, etc. so I don't think they would have issues but you never know. Hopefully the others will update OK too, I'm only 1 day behind now instead of 5. Will keep you informed of any other issues.

Thanks for the help.

[CyberRanger]

others still having issues. Post one of the problem feeds here and I'll see if I can give you any pointers. :)

[Fungsten]

Installed on Test Server using 3.6.8. I'll tell you if any issues occur.

[Fungsten]

Works on 3.6.8. However my question is how do I get the Feeds displayed horizontally and not vertically on the forum home page?

So instead of:

News1
News2
etc.

I want it as:

News1 News2 etc.

Thanks.

[Fungsten]

When posting the article why don't the images show up?

69389

Thanks.

[towermatt]

Hmmm...I was using this on 3.6.5 and my members loved it. Last night it went haywire for some reason though.

It was causing an error on the global.php and I was able to disable all hooks with a command in there. Then I systematically turned them back on and it was the one. :(

Just wondering if anyone else had the problem and if there is a fix. I suppose I could use the built in RSS but I love the idea of being about to showcase site events on the main page easily

[CyberRanger]

Hmmm...I was using this on 3.6.5 and my members loved it. Last night it went haywire for some reason though.

It was causing an error on the global.php and I was able to disable all hooks with a command in there. Then I systematically turned them back on and it was the one. :(

Just wondering if anyone else had the problem and if there is a fix. I suppose I could use the built in RSS but I love the idea of being about to showcase site events on the main page easily
What was the exact error message? My guess is that something funky happened with one of your feeds. I'd try removing all the feeds then add them back one by one.

[CyberRanger]

When posting the article why don't the images show up?

69389

Thanks.
In admincp -> vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options see if "Allow Dynamic URL for [IMG] Tags" is set to yes.

[towermatt]

What was the exact error message? My guess is that something funky happened with one of your feeds. I'd try removing all the feeds then add them back one by one.

It was a 304 I believe, something about the header not coming over.

I would hate to think one lousy feed could down the whole board that way so I am going to check into it but if that's the case...I may need to switch to the built in function.

[CyberRanger]

I would hate to think one lousy feed could down the whole board that way so I am going to check into it but if that's the case...I may need to switch to the built in function.
I really don't think a bad feed could have that impact. I've helped a number of sites isolate bad feeds. In those cases, the feed hasn't stopped the site from working, it's only stopped AboutToday from updating correctly.

Maybe the issue is a corrupt AboutToday file? (sort of shooting in the dark) Reloading the AboutToday php files wouldn't hurt, may help.

[towermatt]

That's exactly what I was thinking. I may just uninstall and re load up the whole thing.

Because I really love the mod, thanks for the help man.

[Fungsten]

In admincp -> vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options see if "Allow Dynamic URL for [IMG] Tags" is set to yes.

Thanks. I already had it checked yes but I think it's working now. :confused:

On Edit:

How do I change the News Feeds per row? Right now there is one per row and I want to change it to three. Thanks.

[CarpHunter]

I have a little problem with the output on my portal.

I updated my forums (vb 3.6.8) and portal (vbadvanced 3.0.RC2) today.

The module on the portal worked perfectly but now it doesn't anymore.
I reinstalled alle files from abouttoday (2.0.5) and uploaded the xml. Nothing seems to help.

Output on the forums is ok and the script is functioning great except for the portal block.

There is a new function in vbadvanced 3.0 that lets you test the template code for a new module and there the rss outputs fine. But when I try to view it on the portal itselfe it doesn't show.

Any quick fix for this?

[Mark K]

How do i edit the $myfeeds template? I would like to remove the bullet points from the feeds, and take some of the cell padding off

[Mark K]

yay, finally got mine finished, displaying exactly how i want now, in my rightside column. Thanx for this great mod, was exactly what i was looking for.

To see it in action click here (http://www.footballshq.com)

[newbuck]

How Can I move this to the top of my forum?

[Mrdby]

yay, finally got mine finished, displaying exactly how i want now, in my rightside column. Thanx for this great mod, was exactly what i was looking for.

To see it in action click here (http://www.footballshq.com)

How did you do that?

[Mrdby]

where do you go to get the links to feeds?

[Mrdby]

Warning: Division by zero in /global.php(341) : eval()'d code on line 461 i got this error at the top of my forum.

[Mrdby]

and it gave me that error in my shoutbox.

[YabbaDabba]

Thanks for the detailed comments. I really need to recode a lot of this. As you can see, it's been a long time since I did an update. Now, just to find some time!It's been 6 months, so I thought I would pop in and ask if you have any idea as to when you would be working on a new release.

Thanks for all your efforts,

[Fungsten]

How did you do that?

Same here.

Also I noticed that if I click on new threads at the bottom of a thread then many times I a message saying there are no new threads. But there are more recent threads. Is anyone else getting that?

[busybeeburns]

In /abouttoday.php page the "Add" link directs to mysite.com/forum/abouttoday.php?do=add&cat=

...which is a dead link :confused:

[nyk_user]

I have installed this but when I click on either Categories or RSS feeds then I get a 404 page not found from my control panel.

I uploaded all the files according to the directions, any suggestions?

http://www.dc2be.com/about_today.jpg

[CyberRanger]

I have installed this but when I click on either Categories or RSS feeds then I get a 404 page not found from my control panel.

I uploaded all the files according to the directions, any suggestions?

You need to load the files again to your server. Make sure you get the files that are in admincp.

[basilrath]

any ideas on this

ive add $myfeeds to a sidebar nothing shows in it at all

i had this working on another site but its not showing the feeds

ive got the "How many rows across for $myfeeds variable?" set above zero (its at 1)

and the feed is added too and is active still nothing ive tried everything

nothing shows

any ideas

3.6.8 and vbadvanced

[CyberRanger]

any ideas on this

ive add $myfeeds to a sidebar nothing shows in it at all
...

any ideas

3.6.8 and vbadvanced
Can you PM me your site url along with a vbulletin admin login? I'll take a peek at it.

[Fungsten]

Newbie question. What are the $myfeeds variables? What do they do? Sounds obvious, but what are they? Thanks.

[CyberRanger]

Newbie question. What are the $myfeeds variables? What do they do? Sounds obvious, but what are they? Thanks.

The $myfeeds variables let you place summary information from your RSS feeds on ANY page and ANY place you want if that page is vb powered (ie global.php is called). Here is a good example of what you can do: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1007391&postcount=215

I really should have called that "columns" across. If you set it to two and you have two feeds assigned to $myfeeds, you'd get this:

feed1 feed2

If you had it set to 1, you'd get:

feed1
feed2

[sean289855]

When I try to force my feeds then I get this error

Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /abouttoday.php on line 1463

Any help woudl be good I love the mod.

http://www.faceoffhockeyshow.com/forum/abouttoday.php

[CyberRanger]

When I try to force my feeds then I get this error

Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /abouttoday.php on line 1463

Any help woudl be good I love the mod.

Hmmmm .... with safe mode on the only option is to remove that line. Go into abouttoday.php, find set_time_limit(0); and delete it. Under most circumstances, the program will still work okay.

[Fungsten]

The $myfeeds variables let you place summary information from your RSS feeds on ANY page and ANY place you want if that page is vb powered (ie global.php is called). Here is a good example of what you can do: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1007391&postcount=215

I really should have called that "columns" across. If you set it to two and you have two feeds assigned to $myfeeds, you'd get this:

feed1 feed2

If you had it set to 1, you'd get:

feed1
feed2

Thank you! Could you please mention that in the next update?

On Edit:

Where do you change the variable?

[sean289855]

Perfect Fix.

[rwoscott]

The $myfeeds variables let you place summary information from your RSS feeds on ANY page and ANY place you want if that page is vb powered (ie global.php is called). Here is a good example of what you can do: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1007391&postcount=215

I really should have called that "columns" across. If you set it to two and you have two feeds assigned to $myfeeds, you'd get this:

feed1 feed2

If you had it set to 1, you'd get:

feed1
feed2Hi mate. Installed it and got it all working easy enough.

I've just trawled through all 50 odd pages trying to work out how to get multiple columns.
I've set the $myfeeds to 2 in the settings and I've set the $myfeeds variable to "yes" in each of the feeds as suggested, but I still only get a single column.

I've tried the fix to the navbar, but I got nothing up top.

I'd like 2 (or even 3 columns) across the top of the fourmhome page under the navbar.

Any suggestions??

[CyberRanger]

I'd like 2 (or even 3 columns) across the top of the fourmhome page under the navbar.
Any suggestions??
The $myfeeds settings don't impact what you see at the bottom of the forumhome.

To have a two column display of your selected feeds on forumhome, you need to add the $myfeeds variable to the FORUMHOME template. So, FORUMHOME would look like this:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
$myfeeds
<if condition="$show['guest']">
.....
I have cnn and yahoo set to display with $myfeeds so my forumhome looks like the attached image.

[rwoscott]

The $myfeeds settings don't impact what you see at the bottom of the forumhome.

To have a two column display of your selected feeds on forumhome, you need to add the $myfeeds variable to the FORUMHOME template. So, FORUMHOME would look like this:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
$myfeeds
<if condition="$show['guest']">
.....
I have cnn and yahoo set to display with $myfeeds so my forumhome looks like the attached image.

OK thanks CR. (for the quick response as well.
Done that, and now I get the 2 columns as you have your 2.
BTW, it is a most excellent mod, some posters get sick of the std vb rss feeds creating threads when no one is really interested in the topic. This way they can decide if it is worth chatting about!!.

just 2 more silly qns.

1) in the above how do I only show the $myfeeds for the users I have selected in the admincp settings?

2) Can I do 3 (or more) columns??

[CyberRanger]

1) in the above how do I only show the $myfeeds for the users I have selected in the admincp settings?If you mean the usergroup permissions, I'm afraid that the $myfeeds variable ignores that.

2) Can I do 3 (or more) columns??Yes, you can make the number as high as you want. Of course, I think above 3 will look sort of bad formatting wise.

[rwoscott]

If you mean the usergroup permissions, I'm afraid that the $myfeeds variable ignores that. Fair enough.

Yes, you can make the number as high as you want. Of course, I think above 3 will look sort of bad formatting wise. 3 might be fine.

Thanks soo much for your help.

[solidlink]

I cant get it to work... maybe its the vba cmps? Can you help me take a look?

[CyberRanger]

I cant get it to work... ?
Get what to work? AboutToday at all? Using the $myfeeds variables with vba cmps?

[Madspot]

how can i get this to have a bot post in threads

[Networknutz]

I am trying to figure out how to edit the html displayed when using the $myfeeds in left column. I'm not sure if it's done thru abouttoday or not. Right now my feeds seemed to be seperated by 2 or more <br> s and like to be able to edit that. any suggestions?

Thanks
Will

[rwoscott]

Is there an easy way to give a warning message telling the users that they are about to start a thread after they clicked the "Talk about it" button?

Many users are clicking it out of curiosity and they create unnecessary, so it would be nice to ask them if they want to continue or cancel.

[sdsvtdriver]

can't get this feed to work. not sure why. help?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CalculatedRisk

[chrisife]

Great Mod. But i am having some issues in getting it work. I am running vb3.6.8 and abouttoday displays on top of the navbar like this:

http://www.allafricanfootball.com/abouttoday.php

Can somebody help me fix this?

[jretzer]

I'm having a difficult time with this. I have inserted a couple of RSS feeds and nothing is showing up. Here are the feeds:

http://detnews.com/feeds/rss17.xml

http://www.freep.com/feeds/rss19.xml

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss;_ylt=A0WTTkoTGoFH7nQBChXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MTB sZGZsBHNlYwNhZG0-?ei=UTF-8&p=michigan+football&c=&eo=UTF-8

None of these are display anything

All I get is the first one I entered -- a Google News Feed

I must be missing a setting, but I can't figure out what

[JCW]

I clicked installed!

First, I'd like to show my appreciation for this great mod: Thank You! :up:

The RSS feeds that came configured are working fine, but when I add a feed that requires a search (e.g. Google News or Yahoo News) nothing displays. [By the way, fopen is on. VB version is 3.5.4. All permissions are set properly. And I've tried this in multiple browsers.]

Here are a couple examples of feeds that I cannot get to show (even when I "Force RSS Update") :

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss;_ylt=A0WTTkoTGoFH7nQBChXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MTB sZGZsBHNlYwNhZG0-?ei=UTF-8&p=golf&c=&eo=UTF-8

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=golf&output=rss

These both work in the browser window. This has been really frustrating, and I've read many posts here and cannot figure this out.

I do not get any visible errors. There's just no data/info displayed at all for the above feeds in AboutToday.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you.

JCW

[jretzer]

JCW ... that's wierd, because those are the ONLY ones I can get to work. I can't get straight RSS feeds to work as shown in the post above yours.

[CyberRanger]

Great Mod. But i am having some issues in getting it work. I am running vb3.6.8 and abouttoday displays on top of the navbar like this:

http://www.allafricanfootball.com/abouttoday.php

Can somebody help me fix this?What's the name of the feed that you are displaying? My first thought looking at your site is that you have an error in your style. Have you tried it with the default vbulletin style? Also, try doing a "Force RSS Update". Maybe the feed just didn't read in right the first time.

[CyberRanger]

http://detnews.com/feeds/rss17.xml

http://www.freep.com/feeds/rss19.xml

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss;_ylt=A0WTTkoTGoFH7nQBChXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MTB sZGZsBHNlYwNhZG0-?ei=UTF-8&p=michigan+football&c=&eo=UTF-8

I must be missing a setting, but I can't figure out what
Ah ... you've done nothing wrong! All these url's deal with UM football. AboutToday refuses to parse any such nonsense! Go Buckeyes!!!! (please don't embarrass me again!) :D
I do not get any visible errors. There's just no data/info displayed at all for the above feeds in AboutToday.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you.

JCW
Seriously, let me see if I can figure out why these feeds won't parse.

[rwoscott]

Hi CyberRanger, any ideas on how I might do this easily?
Is there an easy way to give a warning message telling the users that they are about to start a thread after they clicked the "Talk about it" button?

Many users are clicking it out of curiosity and they create unnecessary, so it would be nice to ask them if they want to continue or cancel.

[CyberRanger]

Hi CyberRanger, any ideas on how I might do this easily?
It's an excellent idea. We do that in my other main product (Downloads II). Let me look at the code and see what would be needed.

[JCW]

Seriously, let me see if I can figure out why these feeds won't parse.

Thanks for looking into it, CyberRanger. By the way, in the last few days, the Google News search RSS feed was retrieved once but it will not update. It just keeps showing the same old news. However, I can use the same link and pull up the 'fresh' (new) news.

I'll be waiting to see what you come up with. :up:

[rwoscott]

It's an excellent idea. We do that in my other main product (Downloads II). Let me look at the code and see what would be needed.Thanks Mate.

[sdsvtdriver]

can't get this feed to work. not sure why. help?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CalculatedRisk

any ideas?

[Dave Hawley]

Some feeds work, some don't.

[CyberRanger]

Some feeds work, some don't.
so far, the main difference that seems consistent is if the feed is an RSS 1 or RSS 2 spec feed. The RSS 1 feeds work, the RSS 2 don't. Still researching ....

[Harley D]

My feeds are showing, however the URL to the images are incorrect?

Example:

actual link from my About Today Page RSS feed
http://www.laserenthusiast.com/productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg

Should be
http://www.dealextreme.com/productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg

laserenthusiast is MY sites URL
dealextreme is the RSS feed

I'm using, vBulletin version: 3.6.8 Patch Level 2

What do I need to change to correct this?

Thanks

[CyberRanger]

My feeds are showing, however the URL to the images are incorrect?

Example:

actual link from my About Today Page RSS feed
http://www.laserenthusiast.com/productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg

Should be
http://www.dealextreme.com/productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg

laserenthusiast is MY sites URL
dealextreme is the RSS feed

I'm using, vBulletin version: 3.6.8 Patch Level 2

What do I need to change to correct this?

ThanksMy guess is that the feed above has the images as relative instead of absolute paths in the feed information. So the url to the image is coming as "productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg" when saved in AboutToday as a relative feed it's then output to the browser with your site's URL in front of it. I'm not sure there is a fix except for the other site to have absolute url's to the images.

What is the rss feed link you are using so I can look at it more?

[Harley D]

My guess is that the feed above has the images as relative instead of absolute paths in the feed information. So the url to the image is coming as "productimages/sku_10779_1_small.jpg" when saved in AboutToday as a relative feed it's then output to the browser with your site's URL in front of it. I'm not sure there is a fix except for the other site to have absolute url's to the images.

What is the rss feed link you are using so I can look at it more?

Here is the RSS feed that I am using.
http://www.dealextreme.com/rss.dx

[Harley D]

Here is the RSS feed that I am using.
http://www.dealextreme.com/rss.dx

I have contacted them and asked that they use Full URLS for their images.
Lets hope they comply.

[CyberRanger]

I have contacted them and asked that they use Full URLS for their images.
Lets hope they comply.
I loaded the feed up myself to make sure I understood the issue. Here's an example of the img tag: < img border="0" src="/productimages/sku_10858_1_small.jpg" width="140" height="140" title="" alt="" > See how the src tag doesn't have the domain name? That's what's creating an issue. I'm not sure how to have my program work around that. :confused:

[JCW]

How's the Google News feeds issue coming along? Do you expect a resolution?

Thanks.

JC

[CyberRanger]

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss;_ylt=A0WTTkoTGoFH7nQBChXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MTB sZGZsBHNlYwNhZG0-?ei=UTF-8&p=golf&c=&eo=UTF-8

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=golf&output=rss

...

JCW
The google feed seems be working when put in AboutToday. Are you seeing that too?

[JCW]

The google feed seems be working when put in AboutToday. Are you seeing that too?

The google feed shows, but it is only updated every few days or so. I can use the same link to look at the google news and it is updated very often.

I wonder why it only shows update news a couple times a week. :confused:

I have entered "15" in the "How often should this feed be updated?" field in the rss settings for this feed -- so that it would update every 15 minutes. It doesn't. I've sent it to 30 too.

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks.

JCW

[CyberRanger]

The google feed shows, but it is only updated every few days or so. I can use the same link to look at the google news and it is updated very often.

I wonder why it only shows update news a couple times a week. :confused:
How busy is your forum? The feed will update every 15 minutes BUT only if your forum is busy enough to call the scheduled task every 15 minutes.

[rwoscott]

I have a silly qn CR (again). It may not be directly related to this change.

I tried to stop the RSS feed updating every hour (via the scheduled task manager). I ended up setting it to 9am (once a day). Now it runs (about) every minute between 9am and 10am.

I've tried fiddling with the settings in About Today and Scheduled TM, but I have no idea why it is doing it like that.

Any ideas?

[CyberRanger]

I have a silly qn CR (again). It may not be directly related to this change.

I tried to stop the RSS feed updating every hour (via the scheduled task manager). I ended up setting it to 9am (once a day). Now it runs (about) every minute between 9am and 10am.

I've tried fiddling with the settings in About Today and Scheduled TM, but I have no idea why it is doing it like that.

Any ideas?
Make sure you have dashes (-) in your minutes row and not stars (*). (Stars mean every minute)

[rwoscott]

Make sure you have dashes (-) in your minutes row and not stars (*). (Stars mean every minute)
D'oh!!

I had * in the first slot. Thx.

Have you had a chance to look into a warning msg on "Talk About?" button.

[JCW]

How busy is your forum? The feed will update every 15 minutes BUT only if your forum is busy enough to call the scheduled task every 15 minutes.


Do you really think that is what it is based upon what I've told you already? The forum is busy. Also, I manually update and nothing...

Are you able to get regular updates from the Google feed link that I supplied, using your AboutToday mod?

JCW

[ajm4481]

http://www.koomid.com/abouttoday.php?do=rss&id=2
http://www.koomid.com/abouttoday.php?do=rss&id=1

Thats the page i get when i try this hack.. what am i doing wrong?

www.koomid.com

[tekram]

Hi;

I run a vbulletin 3.6.8. pl2

Great Mod !!!! :)

Some Problems with create a thread. the mod is create a thread in the forum with the id i have set in. when i klick the latest posts on the forumhome
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/02/33.jpg (http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/1333/9s4ppphb_jpg.htm)

there is a message that the link is incorrect. please ask the webmaster ... bla bla bla.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/02/34.jpg (http://s6.directupload.net/file/d/1333/mwo6cmbg_jpg.htm)

here are my settings

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/02/35.jpg (http://s4.directupload.net/file/d/1333/nuhma9jz_jpg.htm)

can you help me to fix that problem?

[Chadi]

The template setup is very confusing. I'm trying to figure out which template to edit to adjust the background of the RSS title when viewing the rss feeds (page that has the 28% width left column and "double click..." list), and also adjust the right column that shows the actual list of feeds.

[sdsvtdriver]

apparently any feed from feedburner won't work. They 'auto detect' your reader and send out rss2.0.

[bainsey]

thanks :D

[HP10T]

So I am a little confused and I apologize if this has been covered but there are 58 pages to read through. I am just wanting new posts on threads on my site to go to an rss reader like the google widget deal. Does this mod do that? If so what settings do I change? Thank you so much.

[HP10T]

no one?

[DDad]

Can you help understand a little more. Posts from your site or from google? You can post one by one from google.

[HP10T]

I just want the active and new threads to show up in an rss reader such as the google desktop bar but am having trouble figuring out how to do that or if this hack even does that at all.

[sdsvtdriver]

anyone tried 3.7 gold?

[powerful_rogue]

anyone tried 3.7 gold?

Works a charm :)

[yahoooh]

when i unstalled it give error in all forum
Unknown column 'phrasegroup_global' in 'field list'

[CyberRanger]

when i unstalled it give error in all forum
Unknown column 'phrasegroup_global' in 'field list'
weird, try re-installing the AboutToday. Does the error go away?

[solidlink]

I've got a problem. Im using 3.7.2

I tried to post an event but it says, "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!"

I just cant find the field. 3 Questions:

1. Are you coming up with a compatible 3.7 version?
2. How do I fix the problem? Do I reinstall the plugin?
3. The adding of events, is it adding to the community/vbulletin calendar?

Can you help? TIA

[Shazz]

I've got a problem. Im using 3.7.2

I tried to post an event but it says, "Fields marked in RED must be filled in!"

I just cant find the field. 3 Questions:

1. Are you coming up with a compatible 3.7 version?
2. How do I fix the problem? Do I reinstall the plugin?
3. The adding of events, is it adding to the community/vbulletin calendar?

Can you help? TIA

1. Works on the latest vB Version
2. Don't know
3. No

[solidlink]

Shazz can you help me test?

http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=problemaw5.jpg

http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=problemaw5.jpg

[solidlink]

can someone help?

[powerful_rogue]

Does anyone know what the below error message means? Ive had this working fine on my site however for some reason today my inbox has been full with the below error

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.2:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT INTO cronlog
(varname, dateline, description, type)
VALUES
('AboutToday',
1219878326,
'RSS Feeds Updated',
0);

MySQL Error : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Error Number : 2013
Request Date : Thursday, August 28th 2008 @ 12:05:26 AM
Error Date : Thursday, August 28th 2008 @ 12:11:44 AM
Script : http://www.doverlocals.co.uk/cron.php?rand=760184
Referrer : http://www.doverlocals.co.uk/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=1219878314-febe08d2f7d0e3629dfd594a3042dd4585724cbf
IP Address : 90.211.228.123
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version :

[thompson]

anybody using this in 3.7.3 ?

[schlottkej]

The event manager won't probably work, but the RSS feeds still pull fine and the "New Thread" creation does as well.

[dreamhost]

The $myfeeds variables let you place summary information from your RSS feeds on ANY page and ANY place you want if that page is vb powered (ie global.php is called). Here is a good example of what you can do: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1007391&postcount=215

I really should have called that "columns" across. If you set it to two and you have two feeds assigned to $myfeeds, you'd get this:

feed1 feed2

If you had it set to 1, you'd get:

feed1
feed2
the $myfeeds vaariable does not seem to work in the 'notices' box for vbulletin.
I created a new notice that only applies to one specific forum category, and the 'notices' box shows up like it should. However instead of seeing the feeds I just see '$myfeeds'

What do I need to do in order to fix it so that I can use $myfeeds in vbulletin notices?


also:
If we can get this to work, I am going to need about 30 or so of the $myfeeds, $myfeeds2, etc.... how do I add them so I have more than 3 choices?

[emailapphost]

From the installation guide:
"3. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php."

How do you do this?
I do not have a "forum directory", I have a "Forum Manager" - is that it?
If so; How do you "bring up a file" in the Forum Manager?
I wish people would not take so much knowledge for granted... :)
Thanks.

[KevinGupta]

Does it work on 3.8.x?? If yes, then have anyone faced any type of problems while installing and in using?

[basilrath]

Cant see why it shouldnt .... im going to try it this aftnoon

[basilrath]

Yes this works on 3.8 x

Using it now if anyone is wishing to try it

[chick]

Has anyone fixed the Fields marked in RED issue. This has to do with gars (if you have gars installed)???

I'd like to use this but the plugin needs fixing for gars allowance. Anyone?

[chick]

I've just confirmed it is GARS causing this issue in RED where you cannot add your own event, does anyone have the fix for it?

[Fungsten]

I'm using VB 3.8.3. When I go to edit an RSS Feed then click "Edit" occasionaly it will not do anything, just sit there. Is anyone else having this issue?

BTW, this also occurs with "Add Feed".

[bada_bing]

Will this mod get updated to work on vb 3.8.x and 4.x ?

[busybeeburns]

I'm using 3.8.5 and it works fine?

[downloadsuk]

open for use on v. 4?

[Lexserv]

I'm trying to delete this add-on, but I keep getting the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT TITLE FROM `vb3_cron` WHERE TITLE LIKE 'AboutToday';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'TITLE' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, November 19th 2010 @ 03:24:27 AM
Error Date : Friday, November 19th 2010 @ 03:24:27 AM
Script : http://www.domain.com/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill
Referrer : http://www.domain.com/admincp/plugin.php?do=productdelete&productid=abouttoday&s=
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.77-community

Any fix to this?

[accludetuner]

Has anyone fixed the Fields marked in RED issue. This has to do with gars (if you have gars installed)???

I'd like to use this but the plugin needs fixing for gars allowance. Anyone?

I've just confirmed it is GARS causing this issue in RED where you cannot add your own event, does anyone have the fix for it?
I have vb 3.8.7 PL2 installed and GARS. I just ran across this mod and thought I'd give it a try. I'm not exactly sure what issue you're referring to but if I have the same issue then I'll try to find a fix for it. If I do I'll post it back here. ;)

[accludetuner]

I'm trying to delete this add-on, but I keep getting the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT TITLE FROM `vb3_cron` WHERE TITLE LIKE 'AboutToday';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'TITLE' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, November 19th 2010 @ 03:24:27 AM
Error Date : Friday, November 19th 2010 @ 03:24:27 AM
Script : http://www.domain.com/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill
Referrer : http://www.domain.com/admincp/plugin.php?do=productdelete&productid=abouttoday&s=
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.77-community

Any fix to this?
browse the vb3_cron db table through phpmyadmin or the SQL console or something. Sounds like like the column doesn't exist or is called something other than "TITLE"

[bada_bing]

This is such a great mod, wondering if the developer is going to port this over to 4.x