Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing [Archive] - Page 2

KW802

11-03-2007, 01:06 AM

So like if we have:

Forum
-Subforum
--Sub-subforum
---Sub-sub-subforum

Perhaps we could get an option for one feed to include it's subforums?That's really outside of the scope of this script. The links provided in the forum listing point to the vBulletin "external.php" file and being able to point to a folder & pick up it's sub-folders is something that I know people keep asking Jelsoft for but, as of yet, I don't think it's high on their priority list (I know I'd like to see that ability as well).

And perhaps the indentation for subsubs could be a bit more obvious?It should already be doing...My Site
Forum
Subform
- Sub-subforum
-- Sub-sub-subforum... so it looks like it's really the first layer deep that you'd like to see indented as well. The very first version actually did that but I didn't think it looked good, at least on my site, because of the sheer volume of dashes that were being shown on the screen. I'll put it on my To Do list to see about perhaps adding an option to the ACP that determine what level the dashes start. Would you want the generic link (the very first link shown at the top for all forums) considered to be the first level or the actual categories be the first level?

Doug Nelson

11-03-2007, 12:53 PM

Has an updated version been posted? Right now I don't have it active, waiting for the fix.

Vinyljunky

11-03-2007, 01:26 PM

It's really a question of where do you want to present the link to your visitors. Some sites, IMHO, go overboard and have an RSS link just about everywhere they can squeeze it in and others bury if RSS feeds are not considered a major item for them. At least for me personally I went with just a link in my footer template (eg: scroll to the bottom of the page (http://www.coolscifi.com)). If you come up with a spot of where you'd like the link, and whether you want a graphic link or a text link, just let me know where and I'll walk you through changing the template.

I think it looks just fine where you have it as its visible without being cluttered.

I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me where to put the code so I could do the same :up:

Thanks for your time

VinylJunky

GrendelKhan{TSU

11-06-2007, 04:46 PM

You found a bug. :) If CMPS is installed on the site and the page is not being integrated with CMPS then the error occurs. The way the old CMPS 2.x & older integration worked it requires a file to be included and the method I was previously doing always included the file if it found it. Apparently it doesn't like that with CMPS 3.x so now I'm wrapping the file include inside of a conditional. I'll post an updated version this afternoon.

cool! I'm getting the same error. looking forward to the fix. :)

KW802

11-06-2007, 05:32 PM

I've been out of pocket for a few days... I'll post the updated version and the template install either late tonight when I'm back home or Wed. from the office during the day.

KW802

11-07-2007, 08:25 PM

An updated version has been posted. Version 2.3.0 adds a new feature (hence going to 2.3.x instead of continuing the 2.2.x line) and some bug fixes. Please read the change log in post #2 of this thread for details of what has changed since the version you are currently using. In short... new option to automatically show the RSS button in your footer, bug fix for CMPS users, changed a template to remove session IDs.

Has an updated version been posted? Right now I don't have it active, waiting for the fix.Doug, you never got back to me about the depths and what what depths the indicators should start showing. I was hoping to include it in this release but if you let me know what you're thinking I'll put it on the mental To Do list for a future date.

cool! I'm getting the same error. looking forward to the fix. :)You should be good to go now with the latest version.

I think it looks just fine where you have it as its visible without being cluttered.

I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me where to put the code so I could do the same :up:

Thanks for your time

VinylJunky2.3.0 adds a new feature to make life easier... the RSS button can now be automatically shown in your footer template! Try the newest version and if the automatic option does not work for you then your template may be missing the code of HTML the plugin is looking for in which case I'll walk you through it via PM.

Doug Nelson

11-07-2007, 10:53 PM

Doug, you never got back to me about the depths and what what depths the indicators should start showing. I was hoping to include it in this release but if you let me know what you're thinking I'll put it on the mental To Do list for a future date.

Sorry. I got to thinking that sub-sub-subforums were a really bad idea, so I got rid of them all.

New version works great! Thanks :up:

Vinyljunky

11-08-2007, 02:13 PM

2.3.0 adds a new feature to make life easier... the RSS button can now be automatically shown in your footer template! Try the newest version and if the automatic option does not work for you then your template may be missing the code of HTML the plugin is looking for in which case I'll walk you through it via PM.

Works like a charm, well done! :up:

Thanks

VinylJunky

Mecho

11-08-2007, 09:08 PM

Got your PM, thanks. Looks like you're having a problem with external.php not showing you any threads and not a problem with this script. I replied to your PM with a theory of what I think is going on.

Thanks man but i havent got any reply ... any help would appreciate

kollam003

11-09-2007, 03:16 AM

updated thanks

KW802

11-09-2007, 03:28 PM

Thanks man but i havent got any reply ... any help would appreciateYou did get a reply but, as I mentioned, the problem with a blank page when viewing "external.php" is not related to this script. The file external.php is the stock RSS generator that comes with vBulletin; this script just points to it. I mentioned in one of my PMs one possible reason why you would not see anything when viewing the external.php page but, as I also mentioned, I can't verify if that is the reason or not because when viewing your site as a guest I can not see the forums in question.

There is only so much I can do to help out with a problem that is not related to code I've written/released and without being able to see all parts of the problem. :o

Mecho

11-10-2007, 04:05 PM

thanks but question is am i only person that i have this problem ??! if yes so it means something wrong with my forum or what ??

thanks

Alfa1

11-10-2007, 07:32 PM

Is this compatible wit NuSEO?

KW802

11-11-2007, 01:19 AM

Is this compatible wit NuSEO?Honestly... I have no idea. I use vBSEO on my sites and none of the sites I can try it out on run NuSEO. With vBSEO they offer a developers area for with docs on how developers can integrate their script... if NuSEO has something similar then I'd be more than happy to give it a shot, just point me in the right direction.

Chadi

11-15-2007, 03:23 AM

How do I remove the white thin border (1px in size) entirely? I prefer to also have alternating row colors (alt1, alt2) instead. Please explain how to go about doing this. Thanks.

Neal-UK

11-16-2007, 08:16 AM

I've just upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 GOLD on both my sites, and when I try to view the feed page now I get this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_forum_info() in /**/**/**/*****/**/html/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

Doug Nelson

11-16-2007, 12:59 PM

Glad I held off on the vbseo 3.1 upgrade. I would like to see this fixed.

KW802

11-16-2007, 02:24 PM

I've just upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 GOLD on both my sites, and when I try to view the feed page now I get this:

Glad I held off on the vbseo 3.1 upgrade. I would like to see this fixed.
I'm running the last beta 3.0.1e, at Cool Sci-Fi with no issues so I'm surprised that they would've changed something between that beta and releasing it as Gold.

I'll be upgrading the site to 3.1.0 Gold today so I'll check it out.

KW802

11-16-2007, 03:53 PM

Well, it turns out that they cleaned up their function names with the Gold release and in /includes/functions_vbseo.php they renamed "get_forum_info()" to "vbseo_get_forum_info()" to be consistent. That breaks, as you can see, the script.

I'll be posting an update later today at some point to handle it (I need to handle it for both 3.1.x and now older versions) but in the mean time if you've upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 Gold and have the error then do a search & replace in your cv_rss_feeds.php file for the changed function name.

Doug Nelson

11-17-2007, 12:26 AM

Thanks for the edit tip.

safakuygur

11-17-2007, 12:48 PM

Neal-UK

11-17-2007, 02:25 PM

KW802

11-18-2007, 12:56 AM

Also, when you change the name of the cv_rss_feeds.php file, adjusting it via the admincp also doesn't change the RSS link in the forum footer.Doh! :eek: That means I did something silly like forgetting to use the variable name in the template (cv_ffl_rss_button_in_footer).

Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it in the next update (2.3.1) that I'm prepping.

KW802

11-18-2007, 12:57 AM

Not Found
The requested URL /forums/http://www.sanalda1numara.com/forums/external.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

sory
what ? plase
tanksIn your ACP, do you have the option turned on to include template names in your output?

Neal-UK

11-18-2007, 10:01 AM

Doh! :eek: That means I did something silly like forgetting to use the variable name in the template (cv_ffl_rss_button_in_footer).

Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it in the next update (2.3.1) that I'm prepping.

No problem, happy to help. Keep up the excellent work :up:

711

11-22-2007, 02:40 AM

Great Mod!

Found a bug, which I think I have fixed:

The 'automatic RSS button in footer' option displays the wrong file if you edit the filename of cv_rss_feeds.php.

To fix, an edit to your cv_ffl_rss_button_in_footer template is required.

Change this:

<a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/cv_rss_feeds.php\" target=\"_self\" title=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\"><img src=\"$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" /></a> -

to this:

<a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[cv_ffl_filename]\" target=\"_self\" title=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\"><img src=\"$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" /></a> -

Also, it seems that the forum exclusions via Admin CP are still not working as intended. If I enter a single forum ID in the exclusion field, the script correctly blocks it. However if multiple forums are added, separated by commas, they still show in the script. Seems to be an error with the parsing of the excluded forum IDs.

However, there is a work-around:

Create a dummy usergroup, e.g. rssfeedview.
Edit the permissions for this dummy usergroup to match the forums you wish to show in the forum feed listing.
In the admin CP options for the feed listing mod, change the Permissions Usergroup ID to that of your dummy usergroup created above.

The script will now show only the forums you wish to be displayed ;)

Also, it would be great to somehow include the main vBulletin Blog RSS feed (or other various RSS feeds a site may have) on this page as well. I couldn't figure out how to hard code that in to the templates. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

**EDIT** Oops, looks like someone mentioned the footer button bug a few posts before mine. In any case, the fix I provided works ;)

Saviour

11-22-2007, 04:00 PM

Great hack...

Looking forward to the next release with bug fixes and new implementations...

Keep up the great work! "Clicks Installed".

Ohiosweetheart

11-23-2007, 02:03 AM

Not Found
The requested URL /forums/http://www.sanalda1numara.com/forums/external.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

sory
what ? plase
tanks

I have this same problem when clicking the MyYahoo and other buttons.
WHen I click the RSS button, and the links on the left site of the rss page, I get a Error 404, File not found error.

Any fix for this yet??

Saviour

11-23-2007, 02:18 AM

Netaudio

11-25-2007, 07:03 PM

I've just upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 GOLD on both my sites, and when I try to view the feed page now I get this:

I have same problem, please Help me.

Thx

Ohiosweetheart

11-25-2007, 09:24 PM

Looks like support is sparse. :( I guess I'll have to uninstall it... again...

KW802

11-26-2007, 02:38 PM

I have only two issues with this hack...
Why does BB code show in the feed?
Why isn't all the content of the thread post showing in the feed?If you can help me out with this...I'd greatly appreciate it...

Update...

Anyone at all? This post is three days old...When you say feed, do you mean in the output page of this script or your actual external.php RSS feed?

I have same problem, please Help me.

ThxSee the responses a few above yours about vBSEO 3.1 and the function name that was changed. You can either do a manual edit on the file or wait until the next release.

Looks like support is sparse. :( I guess I'll have to uninstall it... again...Considering that it was a holiday week (I prefer spending time with the family & friends, not being online) and that both issues (vBSEO 3.1 gold and the link problems) have been addressed your criticism is a bit unfounded. Heck, Peggy, you yourself posted what the issue is with the links over at vBFAQ. :erm:

For the links problem turn off the option to include the template names in your HTML output in your ACP (shouldn't be turned on anyway in a production environment).

Saviour

11-26-2007, 03:18 PM

When you say feed, do you mean in the output page of this script or your actual external.php RSS feed?

Go to this link: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php

That will bring you to my feeds page on my forum...

Now clcik the RSS button next to Saviour PC Forum...

Look for the link to "Interested in making a website" and click it...

Do you see the BBCode? That's what I'm talking about...

My other question is why doesn't all the content from the post show up in the feed?

Thanks for your quick reply...I appreciate that.

KW802

11-26-2007, 03:56 PM

Go to this link: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php

That will bring you to my feeds page on my forum...

Now clcik the RSS button next to Saviour PC Forum...

Look for the link to "Interested in making a website" and click it...

Do you see the BBCode? That's what I'm talking about...OK, gotcha' now. That is the actual RSS code that is generated by the stock "external.php" script that comes with vBulletin (eg: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php).

The BB code showing is a good question since the external.php script is supposed to strip out the BB code tags. When vB.com is back up (they're down at the moment for the vB 3.7.x beta upgrade) ask them to take a look at http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54 to see if they would know why your BB codes are not being stripped. The external.php is a stock vBulletin script and the cv_rss_feeds.php script does not have any affect on it.

My other question is why doesn't all the content from the post show up in the feed?By default the amount of the output shown is the same length as the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title in the forum thread listing). That is set in ACP => vBulletin Options => Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) => Length of Thread Preview Text with a default length of 150 characters. If you change that value then take note that it will also affect when you hover over the thread title. If you want just your RSS feeds from external.php to display the entire thread instead of just the thread preview then you can add an option like "fulldesc=1" to the URL. For example, http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54 versus http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54&fulldesc=1. I personally wouldn't give the full feed since then it doesn't give the reader motive to click the link and visit the site since but if you want to change it then modify your "cv_ffl_forum_feed_link" template and change it from...$vboptions[bburl]/external.php<if condition="$forumid">?forumids=$forumid</if>... to ...$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?fulldesc=1<if condition="$forumid">&forumids=$forumid</if> ... instead. Note that besides adding the fulldesc=1 option the "?" in the if condition changes to an ampersand "&" as well.

Saviour

11-26-2007, 06:37 PM

KW802

11-26-2007, 06:57 PM

Well...bad news...

vbulletin.com does not support modified versions. So they want me to backup all my data...and re-install the product...ain't gonna happen.

I finally got my forum the way I want it...and had no problems...up until now...

So...needless to say...I have uninstalled your product.

Thanks, anyway...Um... this script does not modify external.php in any way shape or form, it simply points to it.

After you uninstalled it, does the BB codes still show?

Saviour

11-26-2007, 07:00 PM

Um... this script does not modify external.php in any way shape or form, it simply points to it.

After you uninstalled it, does the BB codes still show?

I'm not trying to be a wise guy...but if I uninstalled it...how will I get it to show?

KW802

11-26-2007, 07:13 PM

I'm not trying to be a wise guy...but if I uninstalled it...how will I get it to show?The links to external.php in your /forums folder is part of vBulletin and comes with it. When you view your RSS feeds the generic link would be http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php. You can then pass parameters into the script by putting them in the URL. For example, if your forum visitors knew that your Other forum had a forum ID of 54 then they could see the RSS feeds only from that forum by using a URL like http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54 directly.

This script (the "CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing") is simply a listing of all of your forums that links to the external.php script that comes with vBulletin. Think of it is as a mini 'site-map' with a quick link to the individual forum RSS feeds.

That is why if you said you were having a problem while viewing cv_rss_feeds.php then it is a problem with this script but if you are seeing strange results while viewing the actual RSS feed that it links to, (eg: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54) then it is unrelated to this script so it does nothing more than points to it. For example, when somebody mentioned earlier that when they changed the name of cv_rss_feeds.php in the ACP but the automatic button in the footer didn't change as well then that is a problem that I missed but seeing BB codes in the actual RSS feeds is unrelated to anything with this script (cv_rss_feeds.php) since the feeds are generated by external.php and is a stock vBulletin script.

I try to help out with any questions that people might have with problems/issues related to the stuff I release but when it comes time for stuff like "Why are BB codes showing up in the RSS feeds generated by external.php?" then that is something that the vBulletin support guys should really be handling.

Saviour

11-26-2007, 07:33 PM

Okay...I went to the URL of the external PHP file and they still show up...

I hope you continue to give me support on this...if I can get this issue resolved...I'll be more than happy to reinstall your product...I love it.

Attached is the code from my external.php file. Hopefully you can take a look at it and tell me what the issue is.

Like I said...I'd love to have this installed and working properly.

Update...

I've decided to give this another try...I think it may be something I'm doing...will play the waiting game.

Installed!

Ohiosweetheart

11-26-2007, 10:11 PM

Considering that it was a holiday week (I prefer spending time with the family & friends, not being online) and that both issues (vBSEO 3.1 gold and the link problems) have been addressed your criticism is a bit unfounded. Heck, Peggy, you yourself posted what the issue is with the links over at vBFAQ. :erm: I did? Sorry I don't remember, lol. Sorry Kev, I didn't see the link question asked here, and I'd just come from your site where questions had been asked and no reply was posted, from October, so I'm sure you can understand the frustration. :) I hope you had a good holiday!

For the links problem turn off the option to include the template names in your HTML output in your ACP (shouldn't be turned on anyway in a production environment).
Thanks again :D

ChurchMedia

11-27-2007, 12:29 AM

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I don't want the first list of links to show -- only the ones with feeds. See the screenshot and my feeds page at http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/rss_feeds.php.

Thanks for the great mod! I got it working with vBseo 3.1 by just changing "get_forum_info();" to "vbseo_get_forum_info();" in the cv_rss_feeds.php file.

:)

711

11-27-2007, 01:11 AM

KW802, you may have missed this question with all the chaos and misunderstanding going on in the last few posts:

Any instructions you can give to include the vBulletin Blog RSS feed into the page?

Great Mod!
Also, it would be great to somehow include the main vBulletin Blog RSS feed (or other various RSS feeds a site may have) on this page as well. I couldn't figure out how to hard code that in to the templates. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

KW802

11-27-2007, 06:29 AM

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I don't want the first list of links to show -- only the ones with feeds. See the screenshot and my feeds page at http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/rss_feeds.php.{Scratches my head at this one.} Do you have any other 'sitemap' type hacks installed? That code doesn't appear to be generated from this script and the very first line should be the generic "The Church Media Community" master link (the first line that actually has an RSS button on it). My guess would be that it's picking up a global variable set by a different hack/add-on somewhere and is including it in the output. If you can think of what 'sitemap' hack you might have installed I'll take a look at it to see why there is a conflict, else I'll go back and see what I can to do prevent it generically.

Thanks for the great mod! I got it working with vBseo 3.1 by just changing "get_forum_info();" to "vbseo_get_forum_info();" in the cv_rss_feeds.php file.Exactly. :) The next version will check to see if vbseo_get_forum_info function is defined else use the get_forum_info function for compatibility with the older versions of vBSEO. There haven't been too many vBSEO 3.1 Gold complaints so I've been holding off on releasing the 2.3.1 version to see if there are any other features/fixes I need to put in there.

KW802, you may have missed this question with all the chaos and misunderstanding going on in the last few posts:

Any instructions you can give to include the vBulletin Blog RSS feed into the page?Yep, I missed that one, sorry.

What are your thoughts on how it should be included? A generic link to the blogs if I detect that the blogs are installed or perhaps some type of entry box in the ACP for people to type in additional links manually or a different method? Where do think additional links should appear, above or below the list of forum links?

With so many packages now offering RSS feeds (eg: vBulletin, vBulletin Blogs, vBadvanced Dynamics, PhotoPost Pro & PhotoPost vBGallery, etc.) I not visualizing yet how it should be handled. If you (or anybody else reading this and would like to help out with ideas) can help me get a grasp on the best way of handling it visually I can work on the code. :o

ChurchMedia

11-27-2007, 02:29 PM

{Scratches my head at this one.} Do you have any other 'sitemap' type hacks installed? That code doesn't appear to be generated from this script and the very first line should be the generic "The Church Media Community" master link (the first line that actually has an RSS button on it). My guess would be that it's picking up a global variable set by a different hack/add-on somewhere and is including it in the output. If you can think of what 'sitemap' hack you might have installed I'll take a look at it to see why there is a conflict, else I'll go back and see what I can to do prevent it generically.

I thought it was odd. It's been doing that ever since I install the mod. I scanned the feeds code and the templates and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. I don't have any site map hacks. I can list my mods if that would help.

virus9112002

11-29-2007, 02:35 AM

Nice one, installed, thanks!

Mecho

12-02-2007, 02:50 PM

KW802 , in my forum Guests can see the forums but they can not Read threads so all the sections shows up in cv_rss_feed.php but in closed sections we get blank page .

do u have anyidea how can i fix it ??

thanks

Pottsy

12-12-2007, 05:43 PM

Sorry - had a problem with vbseo 3.1 but fixed it by reading this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1389991&postcount=292).

Alfa1

12-14-2007, 12:20 AM

I see you have a unanswered question from last august on your forum about the BFO option of this hack. So do you provide a branding free version of this hack?

phvt

12-17-2007, 08:31 PM

Thank you for such a helpful mod! (installed)

I did find one small issue:

The cv_ffl_forum_link template has several newlines at its end which end up in the link output. These newlines were preventing vBSEO from replacing the forumhome link with the correct URL--but the newlines may cause other problems as well.

andreamarucci

12-21-2007, 01:10 PM

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?

Alfa1

12-23-2007, 01:24 AM

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.

KW802

12-23-2007, 04:01 AM

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions. What that means if you're logged in then you'll see the forums listed on the page and you'll be able to view the RSS feeds if you have access to those forums but if a forum is not viewable to guests and if you're not logged in then the forum will not be listed on the page and you'll get a blank page even if you manually enter the URL to the external.php script with the forumID in question.

To test this... create a forum that only a certain user group can see, add yourself to the new group, and then go to the CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing URL. The new forum you created will be listed and, assuming that you've created some test messages, the RSS feed from external.php will be shown when you click the RSS button. Copy the direct URL to the RSS feed to your clipboard. Now logout and view the vB Forum Feed Listing page again. The new forum will not be listed. Now using the URL in your clipboard try viewing the RSS feed directly. It'll be blank.

Humayun1

12-26-2007, 12:00 PM

Its really a great addition, i have installed it successfully and is working fine.
Thanks very much.

soundbarrierpro

12-26-2007, 04:47 PM

Installed here http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php and all of the cinvin options are setup. Usergroup number is set to 2 for registered and above users.

External Data Provider settings for RSS are set.
Enable external Javascript - yes
Enable RSS Syndication - yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) - yes
Enable XML Syndication - yes

all forums are present, but there is no xml in the RSS Feed????

Thank you

Mecho

12-27-2007, 08:50 AM

KW802

12-27-2007, 01:29 PM

is it possible that in the rss feeds page , first it check the usergroups and then Just show the rss feeds that ppl can see it ! for example for guests , just show them a sections that guests have access to them . to admin shows all And ............

thanksIt already does that. If you are running the absolute latest version then go into the ACP and remove the value from the UserGroup field.

andreamarucci

12-27-2007, 02:41 PM

So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions.

Ok! In my forum I'll have two or three forum completely free and all the others available only to paying members. All the paying members will be in a group called "Pay" and all the others will be in a group called "free". All the free users will be able to see just the titles of the threads but not the content.

What you say is that, leaving the things as they are now, the "pay" members will see the complete RSS feed and the free users will se only the free forum feeds and not the others?

imported_silkroad

12-28-2007, 06:53 AM

Hi!

I installed this on vB 3.6.8 and get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /var/www/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

I followed the instructions exactly.

Any clues?

Thanks!

imported_silkroad

12-28-2007, 07:25 AM

Hi!

I installed this on vB 3.6.8 and get the following error:

I followed the instructions exactly.

Any clues?

Thanks!

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

soundbarrierpro

12-28-2007, 09:36 AM

It already does that. If you are running the absolute latest version then go into the ACP and remove the value from the UserGroup field.

Would you be able to identify why the feeds are all blank here? My post is a few back. I also posted in your cinvin forum and I marked as installed.

Thank you

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php

KW802

12-28-2007, 02:17 PM

Did you try turning the Debug option to see if any messages are given?

soundbarrierpro

12-28-2007, 03:46 PM

Did you try turning the Debug option to see if any messages are given?

Hi, thank you for reply.
Yes, all i got was VbSEO disabled and debug enabled. The feeds are still just blank.

KW802

12-28-2007, 04:05 PM

Hi, thank you for reply.
Yes, all i got was VbSEO disabled and debug enabled. The feeds are still just blank.It looks like none of your forums are viewable as guest! The problem appears to be with the way your forums & permissions are configured.

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net

What value do you have in the 'user group' option in the ACP for the feed listing? If you remove the value do the feeds show when you are logged in? What is the date of the newest thread in the forum that you are trying to view versus the thread cutoff in your ACP in the external data feeds options??

soundbarrierpro

12-28-2007, 06:06 PM

Cinvin forum feeds
2 for registered users (still can't see anything as registered or administrator)

External Data Provider

Enable External Javascrip Yes
Enable RSS Syndication Yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) Yes
Enable XML Syndication Yes
60 for thread cutoff
60 cache lifespan
100 maximum external records

Last post was 12/20/07

Humayun1

12-31-2007, 09:03 AM

soundbarrierpro

12-31-2007, 11:29 AM

It looks like none of your forums are viewable as guest! The problem appears to be with the way your forums & permissions are configured.

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net

What value do you have in the 'user group' option in the ACP for the feed listing? If you remove the value do the feeds show when you are logged in? What is the date of the newest thread in the forum that you are trying to view versus the thread cutoff in your ACP in the external data feeds options??

Cinvin forum feeds
2 for registered users (still can't see anything as registered or administrator)

External Data Provider

Enable External Javascrip Yes
Enable RSS Syndication Yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) Yes
Enable XML Syndication Yes
60 for thread cutoff
60 cache lifespan
100 maximum external records

Last post was 12/20/07

Bump??? Still got nothing. Is there anything else which can be enabled/disabled/tested? Above is my last response to author.

hanetworks

12-31-2007, 12:24 PM

I debug and has this error

DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

i logged in as admin and i certainly have permission to view the forum, what could be the problem?

i only see the title of of the forum in you cv_rss_feeds.php

hanetworks

12-31-2007, 12:37 PM

and after i get vbseo 3.1 enabled, i see a blank page with an line of error. after that i exclude cv_rss_feeds.php and now i get this:

DEBUG: DEBUG MODE IS TURNED ON
DEBUG: vBSEO mode is turned ON in the module properties but vBSEO does not appear to be installed and/or enabled.

however, i still have this problem
DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

aj8690

01-06-2008, 11:05 PM

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO
Thank you! :)

Alfa1

01-10-2008, 06:29 AM

Does this work for vb 3.7?
Is the text cutoff defined in vbulletin or in this addon?

swissknife

01-11-2008, 11:14 AM

Hi! i got a little problem:

my forum only got ONE rss-feed-link and not a feed for every (sub)forum.

where is my misstake?!?

thank you!

soundbarrierpro

01-12-2008, 02:02 PM

Hi! i got a little problem:

my forum only got ONE rss-feed-link and not a feed for every (sub)forum.

where is my misstake?!?

thank you!

Author seems to have stopped supporting. He's not supporting in his own forum either. I think it would be best if there were a troubleshooting type guide or something. Every problem seems to be the same. Either the feeds aren't showing, or topics don't show.

RedGTiVR6

01-12-2008, 04:21 PM

Suddenly I'm getting the following error:

Fatal error: Unknown function: get_forum_info() in /home/xxxxx/public_html/vbulletin/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

I'm not sure when this started happening since I just had a user point it out to me.

Any ideas?

RedGTiVR6

01-12-2008, 04:24 PM

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

bingo!

awesome!

too bad the author has decided to quit supporting....I hate it when that happens.

inciarco

01-19-2008, 01:01 AM

Hello I have installed this mod and is working fine for me; am really glad to have such a beautiful and important mod. I am getting a little problem and it is that i have integrated another mod for downloading softwares in my forum "DownloadsII 5.0.6 by CyberRanger & Jelle" but the rss feeds are not including this mod.
Is there any way that it also include list of software categories and softwares inside it; that will be really helpful in boosting in SEO.

Thanks

Perhaps you can Install the Addon that Posts a New Thread when a New File is Added!! :rolleyes:

You Can Find that Addon in the Same Page as the DownloadsII Mod Page!! :rolleyes:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

inciarco

01-19-2008, 01:05 AM

Great Mod!! :up::up::up:

Good way to Opganize the External RSS Syndication!! ;)

I haven't used that Functionality in my Forums Before, and was wondering if the vBulletin Forums had it!! :p

One Question:

:confused: How can I Control the Time to Refresh the External RSS Results for the Forums?? :confused:

I can See that this Information isn't Refreshed every time a Post is made, so I deduce there's a Time between every Refresh!! :rolleyes: How can I know that Time and How can I set it?? :confused:

One Post Made by a User that Asks this Same Question:

How can I modify external.php update time. It seems that it updates every 20 minutes. I want it to be shorter.

(I think is important to Specify in the Instructions that the "External RSS Syndication" option should be Set to "Yes" to Start obtaining Results with the external.php Script, I noticed that Thabks to the Debug Mode you've provided with this Mod (Very Useful)).

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Edit:

I'll try the Option "Cache Lifespan", in the Same Location where you should set to "Yes" the "Enable RSS Syndication" option:

Cache Lifespan

This setting controls how long thread content will be cached (in minutes). Valid settings are 1 to 1440, anything else will be treated as the default value of 60. The higher this value is, the less resources will be used by the External Data Provider system.

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

inciarco

01-19-2008, 01:35 AM

The 'automatic RSS button in footer' option displays the wrong file if you edit the filename of cv_rss_feeds.php.

To fix, an edit to your cv_ffl_rss_button_in_footer template is required.

Change this:

<a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/cv_rss_feeds.php\" target=\"_self\" title=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\"><img src=\"$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" /></a> -

to this:

<a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[cv_ffl_filename]\" target=\"_self\" title=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\"><img src=\"$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"$vboptions[hometitle] $vbphrase[cv_ffl_title]\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" /></a> -

Very Useful!! ;)

:)

inciarco

01-19-2008, 03:45 AM

Other Question:

I noticed that the external.php detects Only New Threads and Not the Update of them; is there an Option for this Hack and/or the external.php (External RSS) to Detect the Update of the Threads and Report it on the external.php Results?? :confused: (Perhaps the Last Post, and/or the same First Post but of the Updated Threads)!! :rolleyes: :confused:

I Hope that is Possible!! :rolleyes:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

ND4SPD

02-12-2008, 08:19 PM

Anyone having issues excluding certain forums from showing up in the RSS listings?

princeedward

02-14-2008, 06:30 PM

Installed: Thanks!

:p

RedGTiVR6

02-27-2008, 05:46 PM

Does this work for vb 3.7?

I'd be interested in knowing as well.

DoB Rhapsody

03-03-2008, 07:41 PM

I'd be interested in knowing as well.

Also wondering, has anyone tried it?

Icy

03-04-2008, 01:55 AM

Works for me on 3.7 beta 5

NashChristian

03-09-2008, 08:12 AM

Hey Kevin,

Does this work for multiple vBa Dyna instances, as well as with vBa Links Directory?

Thanks.
Jeff

MissKalunji

03-12-2008, 03:13 PM

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

Thanks that did work. Only happened once i upgraded to 3.1

KW802

03-12-2008, 03:30 PM

- Should work fine on any of the vB 3.6.x & vB 3.7.x series.

- The vBSEO function name was changed with the newer releases (I think 3.0.0 Gold). The manual edit will take care of it and a future update (actually already code, just not packaged) will handle it automatically.

- I have not looked at including the Dynamics feeds but that's a good idea. Since the original version of this script there have been some third party scripts, such as Dynamics and some of the PhotoPost posts, that now offer RSS feeds as well. I'll see what I can do about including something with them.

- If anybody is having a problem with the forums exclusion option, please let me know. The early versions did indeed have a problem but the last few releases should've taken care of it.

BadgerDog

03-13-2008, 10:26 AM

We've been looking for a "brand free" mod that will enable us to make specific forums only available as RSS feeds. This one was recommended from another site, so before we get oo much further, I wanted to ask a question for clarity.

We would like to only have "Registered" members be able to select those forums and receive the feeds. Does this mod allow us to restrict the RSS feed access by usergroup?

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Badger

BadgerDog

03-13-2008, 01:45 PM

Ok, decided to try it anyway ... ;)

I'm able to get it to use Yahoo (as an example) and bring in threads that seem to be readable by unregistered users only. When I select a forum that requires a user to be registered, I get this error from Yahoo?

There were some problems while loading your page:

Sorry, we were unable to add this feed. Please try again later.

I also tried a free newsreader program from "Tristana" and essentially I get the same thing. Even though they provide data fields for the feed to enter a username and password to log into our site as a registered user, it also returns an error when trying to read in a forum as a feed.?

Tristana Error:

Error parsing content data channel. Document is either invalid or unsupported.

Any help or guidance as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Regards,
Badger

KW802

03-13-2008, 03:40 PM

We would like to only have "Registered" members be able to select those forums and receive the feeds. Does this mod allow us to restrict the RSS feed access by usergroup?Just to clarify... this mod gives you a nicely formatted list of your available RSS feeds. When you click on the RSS button you are taken to the stock vBulletin external.php script. For what you are describing you would need the stock external.php script to be modified (likely could be done with a plugin).

BadgerDog

03-13-2008, 04:12 PM

Just to clarify... this mod gives you a nicely formatted list of your available RSS feeds. When you click on the RSS button you are taken to the stock vBulletin external.php script. For what you are describing you would need the stock external.php script to be modified (likely could be done with a plugin).

Thanks for the feedback ... :)

I guess I was confused with the Which vBulletin usergroup should be used when displaying the forums? option. I thought it somehow controlled what usergroup could access the forums remotely using RSS feeds, as opposed to it being simply what forums on the list they could see.

I'm a little green on this RSS stuff. I'm still stuck in the 60's with Fortran programming background. :D

I assume that the reason any of the remote RSS feed agents only see posts that are available to Un-Registered Guests, is for the same reason? These agents can't read any post that is requires the user to be registered?

Thanks... :)

Regards,
Badger

Edit: BTW, do you do custom paid contract work, such as modifying the External.php to do what we need?

KW802

03-13-2008, 08:19 PM

I guess I was confused with the Which vBulletin usergroup should be used when displaying the forums? option. I thought it somehow controlled what usergroup could access the forums remotely using RSS feeds, as opposed to it being simply what forums on the list they could see.In hindsight... yeah, I could see how that description could be interpreted a few different ways. That option was added as a result of some confusion surrounding forums that guests aren't allowed to see. For example, if you had a forum named "Staff Only" and is only available to your moderators then when your moderators went to the cv_rss_feeds.php page they would see that forum listed. The concern and confusion was that that the forum isn't supposed to be shown to everybody. In reality, though, when a non-moderator went to cv_rss_feeds.php then the "Staff Only" forum would not be listed since they didn't have access to the forum. To make life a bit easier the option was added so that by using a usergroup 'model' for the listing then everybody would see the exact same forums listed regardless of what their permissions really were.

I'm a little green on this RSS stuff. I'm still stuck in the 60's with Fortran programming background. :DI missed fortran; I started with COBOL on a UniSys mainframe back in the 80's. Ah, disc packs, tape reels, greenbar bursters... those were the days.

I assume that the reason any of the remote RSS feed agents only see posts that are available to Un-Registered Guests, is for the same reason? These agents can't read any post that is requires the user to be registered?I'll give a hesitant 'yes' to that one. The script 'external.php' that comes with vBulletin (and is what actually generates the RSS feed) will use the user's permission if they are logged in else 'guest' permissions will be used. That means if your moderator goes to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php then they will see posts from all forums that they have access to, including the "Staff Only" forum, but if a non-moderator or somebody who is not logged in goes to the same URL then they won't see the "Staff Only" posts.

Edit: BTW, do you do custom paid contract work, such as modifying the External.php to do what we need?I do some odd jobs but not a lot these days (the day job takes precedence). But, if I'm understanding your other post correctly, a think a plugin might handle what you're looking for. If I am interpreting it correctly you have a forum that might be named "Special Forum" that several usergroup are allowed to post into but when the RSS feed is generated for that forum then only threads from usergroup X should be shown. Is that what you're after?

BadgerDog

03-13-2008, 09:29 PM

In hindsight... yeah, I could see how that description could be interpreted a few different ways. That option was added as a result of some confusion surrounding forums that guests aren't allowed to see. For example, if you had a forum named "Staff Only" and is only available to your moderators then when your moderators went to the cv_rss_feeds.php page they would see that forum listed. The concern and confusion was that that the forum isn't supposed to be shown to everybody. In reality, though, when a non-moderator went to cv_rss_feeds.php then the "Staff Only" forum would not be listed since they didn't have access to the forum. To make life a bit easier the option was added so that by using a usergroup 'model' for the listing then everybody would see the exact same forums listed regardless of what their permissions really were.

I've set it to "blank" on my system. When I view it as a Usergroup 2 (Registered Member) the display of the mod's RSS pae looks exactly the same as when I view it as a Usergroup 1 (Un-registered Guest), yet their should be forums that the "guest" does not see at all? Am I still missunderstanding this function. Blank (or 0) should pick up the more restricted "Guest" privileges and not display those forums?

I'll give a hesitant 'yes' to that one. The script 'external.php' that comes with vBulletin (and is what actually generates the RSS feed) will use the user's permission if they are logged in else 'guest' permissions will be used. That means if your moderator goes to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php then they will see posts from all forums that they have access to, including the "Staff Only" forum, but if a non-moderator or somebody who is not logged in goes to the same URL then they won't see the "Staff Only" posts.

I couldn't make it work that way directly out of the box using either the Tristana reader or Yahoo. I searched around here and found this:

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127062)

Once I installed that mod along side yours, I was able to read forums the way you describe, that previously gave me the error above with Tristana that require Registered(Usergroup 2) access. I still get the same error using Yahoo though. Tristana permits someone using their client to put in a username and password for each feed if required, but that function didn't I(and still doesn't) seem to make any difference in controlling whether it can open up and get access to any feed. This additional mod seems to do that through the "cookie" thing.

In I do some odd jobs but not a lot these days (the day job takes precedence). But, if I'm understanding your other post correctly, a think a plugin might handle what you're looking for. If I am interpreting it correctly you have a forum that might be named "Special Forum" that several usergroup are allowed to post into but when the RSS feed is generated for that forum then only threads from usergroup X should be shown. Is that what you're after?

Close... :D

I know I'm explaining my needs badly, but in simple terms....

I would like our various members to have the convenience of using RSS, Yahoo, or the other agents you supported, to stay remotely in contact with new posts made on our site, BUT without having to go there in log in. I assume that's what RSS feeds are designed to do... a "push" kind of approach to data?

Now, here's the catch ... I'd like them to have EXACTLY the same access permissions to view forums and posts remotely using whatever agent they choose, as they would have if they had logged on directly.

Is that even possible?

Thanks again for your support and feedback ... much appreciated. :up:

Regards,
Badger

DestekForumu

05-02-2008, 11:08 AM

Thank you Kevin : )

callumbush

06-26-2008, 09:49 PM

- The vBSEO function name was changed with the newer releases (I think 3.0.0 Gold). The manual edit will take care of it and a future update (actually already code, just not packaged) will handle it automatically.

When will this be released? :)

callumbush

06-26-2008, 10:20 PM

I have made the VBSEO edit.

I have an issue though: some of the RSS feeds work, but most of them don't?

http://www.phonedevil.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

Also, now that I have made the VBSEO edit, is that all I need to do for it to be compatible with vBulletin?

p.s. a very good mod !! ...just make it work 100% for me please ;)

Alfa1

06-29-2008, 07:27 PM

Will you release this hack in the 3.7 modifications forum as well?

KW802

06-30-2008, 12:33 AM

Will you release this hack in the 3.7 modifications forum as well?I can but this version works perfectly fine under 3.7.x as well (I have not had to make any modifications to it on any of 3.7.x sites).

Sunsetdriver

07-01-2008, 05:22 PM

I've renamed cv_rss_feeds.php and also changed it in hack's control panel. However RSS button in footer still links to cv_rss_feeds.php and not the new one. :confused:

EDIT:
Already solved here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1424136&postcount=328

Thanks

KW802

07-02-2008, 12:25 AM

Looks like I need to update the copy here. :D I'll post the current version over the weekend.

GrendelKhan{TSU

07-03-2008, 10:08 PM

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

thanks!! :D

Scalemotorcars

07-15-2008, 10:49 PM

KW802

07-16-2008, 12:18 AM

Just in case someone else get this I got a database error from this hack. Seems it installed fine and worked until I tried to add a payed subscription on my site. OPPS!!!! Database error. Had to uninstall and my subscription system works fine now.

Otherwise if your not using the subscription system on a VB (3.6.5 version ) its a great hack.:confused: This has nothing to do with vB's subscription systems and does not make any changes to your vBulletin installation other than creating a new vB product entry.

Scalemotorcars

07-16-2008, 02:31 AM

Thought the same thing but as soon as it was uninsulated my subscription system worked. Might have just been a bug or another conflict that got cleared up when I removed it.

David_R

09-07-2008, 05:26 AM

how to add google adsense codes to this feeds ? i hope if this modification supports the same..

mykkal

09-13-2008, 03:49 AM

Hey everyone I have two questions:

1. Is there any way to have the forum feed still show regardless of group permissions?

2. Can I limit the number of characters summarized in the RSS Feed?

I actually asked this same question in CinVin's forums and never received an answer.

deneme2

09-14-2008, 08:30 AM

thanks

mykkal

09-14-2008, 03:15 PM

Wow there is no support here.

KW802

09-15-2008, 01:49 AM

I actually asked this same question in CinVin's forums and never received an answer.Where? (http://www.cinvin.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56)

Brandon Sheley

09-15-2008, 02:02 AM

how to add google adsense codes to this feeds ? i hope if this modification supports the same..

why not just add the ads in the template where you edit the info on the template page?

David_R

09-22-2008, 01:14 PM

RSS feeds are not generated via templates.. Rss feeds from our domain has to be added to feedburner account, since we are using cinvin feeds for a long time.
It has become a requirement now :)

U.K.Visuals

09-28-2008, 08:24 AM

Hello guys. i have the same problem like two other guys some pages ago:

The requested URL /http://board.mydomain.com/external.php was not found on this server.

does anybody knows a solution for this problem? i didn't found anything in this thread yet.

KW802

09-28-2008, 04:11 PM

Hello guys. i have the same problem like two other guys some pages ago:

does anybody knows a solution for this problem? i didn't found anything in this thread yet.
I must've been a while since I don't remember that one but just edit your cv_ffl_forum_feed_link and remove the HTML comment tags.

U.K.Visuals

09-29-2008, 06:02 AM

pnosko31

09-29-2008, 09:09 AM

I tried to upload this before and just tried again - uploading this file makes my ftp program quit! odd lol

KW802

09-29-2008, 02:48 PM

in the cv_ffl_forum_feed_link i have just this:

$vboptions[bburl]/external.php<if condition="$forumid">?forumids=$forumid</if>i have this problem when i click one of the RSS buttons on the cv_rss_feeds.phpI'll take a look when I get home tonight. In the back of my mind I remember somebody else reporting that problem ages ago but it's been so long I forget what the correction was. If you want to try something else in the interim of waiting for me to get a chance to work on it tonight, try downloading a fresh copy directly from CinVin.

I tried to upload this before and just tried again - uploading this file makes my ftp program quit! odd lolSorry, but providing support for your FTP software is way outside of the scope.

U.K.Visuals

09-30-2008, 12:42 PM

i downloaded the package again directly from CinVin and installed it... but still the same problem.

U.K.Visuals

10-06-2008, 04:05 AM

did you already found a solution for my problem?

Spinball

10-13-2008, 08:29 AM

Couple of things to report.
First, there is a bug, running with 3.7.2, when tuning on the vBSEO option within this mod's options causing a crash when accessing cv_rss_feeds.php:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /home/sites/avforums/public_html/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

And secondly I want to display an RSS button right justified to the right of the forum title in forumdisplay. I got it working nearly correctly adding the following plugin:
forumdisplay_complete
if ($vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_permissions_usergroupid']) {
$forumperms = $foruminfo['permissions'][$vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_permissions_usergroupid']];
} else {
$forumperms = $vbulletin->userinfo['forumpermissions'][$foruminfo['forumid']];
}

if ( (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']) AND !$vbulletin->options['showprivateforums']) OR (!$foruminfo['displayorder']) OR !($foruminfo['options'] & $vbulletin->bf_misc_forumoptions['active']) OR ($foruminfo['link'] AND !$vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_show_linked'] AND !$forum['nametitle']) OR ($excluded_forums AND (in_array($foruminfo['forumid'],$excluded_forums))) ) {
$forumrss = "";
} else {
$forumrss = "<a style='float:right' rel='nofollow' href='http://www.avforums.com/forums/external.php?forumids=" . $foruminfo['forumid'] . "' title='" . $foruminfo['title'] . "'><img src='http://www.avforums.com/forums/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif' border='0' alt='" . $foruminfo['title'] . "' /></a>";
}

and edited the forumdisplay template, changing

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title] </span></td>

to

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$forumrss $vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title] </span></td>

And you can see it working on www.avforums.com.
However for those forums in the exclude list in the options screen for this mod are still being included. Can anyone help refine this code, please?

BeakerUK

10-14-2008, 03:33 AM

I know this is an old hack, but I'm just posting to say it's working perfectly with 3.7.0. I'll be upgrading the forum software to the latest patch soonish, but I assume it'll work fine with other 3.7.x versions.

By observation :: http://www.prestone.co.uk

Link is in the footer.

KW802

10-14-2008, 01:57 PM

Spinball: What version of vBSEO are you using? Along the way vBSEO changed the name of a function which used to cause that error.

BeakerUK: It should work fine with all of the vB versions up the current vB 3.7.x series. I do not have an installation of vB 3.8 Beta installed yet so I can not verify that one at this time but I can verify that it works fine with 3.7.3 as-is.

KW802

11-04-2008, 03:38 PM

I am working on making some tweaks...

What "Wish List" items does anybody have for this? :)

AyeCapn

11-10-2008, 06:59 PM

I'd love some way to substitute FeedBurner or FeedProxy URL's for the ones that are auto-generated by vB.

KW802

11-10-2008, 07:41 PM

I'd love some way to substitute FeedBurner or FeedProxy URL's for the ones that are auto-generated by vB.It's been a bit since I've last played with FeedBurner, and thus do not recall how the URLs are structured, but I'll check it out.

Added to the Wish List. :)

AyeCapn

11-11-2008, 01:09 PM

KW802

11-11-2008, 01:15 PM

Well, everyone who creates a feedburner feed has to manually approve the name. In my mind it would be a simple substitution. If the user adds a feedburner URL for a specific forum use that. If not, use the autogenerated one.

In my case I have one FeedBurner feed for the main external.php RSS 2.0 feed. Instead of www.myforum.com/forum/external.php (http://www.myforum.com/forum/external.php) I want it to use www.feedburner.com/MyFeedName (http://www.feedburner.com/MyFeedName)It turns out that there is an API for FeedBurner that supposedly allows you to create new feeds to your account as well. I have not played with it yet (last night was spent reading up on it) but it appears that a client can pass a user's name & password to to feedburner along with the name & URL of a new feed to burn. If that is true,then I've got a few ideas up my sleeve.

AyeCapn

11-11-2008, 01:26 PM

Wow... that's hot.

The biggest draw is actually Google's FeedProxy since it allows us to insert Google Ads inside our feeds. I think the 2 are related somehow.

djwins

11-22-2008, 10:13 PM

You can use feedburner to display google ads in your feeds. Google owns Feedburner.

Anticipating future updates to this mod...especially the feedburner stuff.

Doug Nelson

11-22-2008, 10:35 PM

Yes, I'd like a way to include adsense ads, as well.

KW802

11-22-2008, 11:34 PM

After AyeCapn suggested FeedBurner I checked it out a bit.

The problem is FeedBurner does not allow dynamic feeds so every forum (or other RSS source on your site) needs to pre-configured as a FeedBurner channel first. The FeedBurner API allows remote creation of the channels which is a good thing. But even with that there is no clean way of mapping the the vB forums to the newly created FeedBurner channels. There are two different possible mapping methods I'm exploring but most likely it won't be in the next release. The next release is shaping up to be a maintenance release with some tweaks done but not the FeedBurner stuff yet.

AyeCapn

11-23-2008, 12:46 AM

I love you. Have I told you that recently?

doraj

11-29-2008, 02:12 PM

Hello,

Please is it compatibile also with vBulletin 3.7.x?

Thanks :)

KW802

11-30-2008, 02:02 AM

Hello,

Please is it compatibile also with vBulletin 3.7.x?

Thanks :)
Yes, this will work fine on vB 3.7.x. (I just didn't see the point of re-releasing the exact same code in two different threads).

A.Chakery

12-13-2008, 12:13 PM

hi , I have problem with vbseo ersion : 3.2.0 and vb 3.7.4 , I have below error :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /home/myroot/public_html/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

A.Chakery

12-14-2008, 09:09 PM

Plz someone answer , Where is the support ?? :(
I will be so thankful if some one answer me

KW802

12-15-2008, 12:01 AM

hi , I have problem with vbseo ersion : 3.2.0 and vb 3.7.4 , I have below error :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /home/myroot/public_html/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195Either download a fresh copy directly from CinVin or make the following edit listed here (http://www.vbseo.com/f10/does-vbseo-have-any-rss-enhancements-18580/#post115015).

Plz someone answer , Where is the support ?? :(
I will be so thankful if some one answer meIf you're going to complain about support, at least click the Install button before doing so.

jeremyalyea

01-05-2009, 01:15 AM

Exactly what I was looking for and then some. Installed. Thank you.

ArnyVee

01-06-2009, 08:04 PM

Hey Kevin, thanks for this mod! :D

I was looking for this awhile back and now had the need again and finally added it.

I did the vBSEO fix and everything seems fine there. But, I do have one question...I added all of the forums to be excluded and separated them by a comma, but they are still showing. Any particular reason why?

A.Chakery

01-25-2009, 03:05 PM

hi dear KEVIN

really thnx for your reply,

Plz tell me if this gr8 mod works on vb 3.8.x

KW802

01-25-2009, 11:07 PM

Plz tell me if this gr8 mod works on vb 3.8.xUIQarene, yes, this should work fine on vB 3.8.0 and above. I have it running on at least two of my personal sites with vB 3.8.0 with no issues.

If you have a problem with it running on vB 3.8.0 (or any other version) just let me know :)

ArnyVee

01-26-2009, 01:24 AM

Kevin,

Is my question a couple of posts up a 'bug' and we can't do anything about it? Just wondering because I'd like to fix that if it's possible.

KW802

01-26-2009, 02:09 PM

Kevin,

Is my question a couple of posts up a 'bug' and we can't do anything about it? Just wondering because I'd like to fix that if it's possible.Whoops, I missed that one (blame on being a Code Monkey for the day job... we all have a bit of ADD you know ;)).

I *think* it's just a case of the download here at vB.org is out of date and I need to refresh it with the current version.

When I get home tonight (late tonight EST) I'll package the current working version and update the download here.

ArnyVee

01-26-2009, 05:06 PM

Thanks Kevin! :D

Looking forward to the updated version :up:

BadgerDog

02-07-2009, 10:59 AM

Can anyone help me add this RSS feed to the default page provided by this excellent mod?

<a href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=RSS_URL_HERE"><img src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif" alt="Subscribe in NewsGator Online" border="0"></a>

I'm not sure where to put this so that this option shows up along with the Yahoo and Google options.

Thanks for any feedback.... :)

BTW, running version 3.67pl1 .....

Regards,
Badger

AyeCapn

02-08-2009, 03:17 AM

KW802

02-10-2009, 11:58 PM

Current version can be found here...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204955

KW802

02-11-2009, 12:02 AM

Looking forward to the updated version :up:I just posted the current version here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204955). Please let me know if that takes care of the problem for you. :)

Can anyone help me add this RSS feed to the default page provided by this excellent mod?

<a href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=RSS_URL_HERE"><img src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif" alt="Subscribe in NewsGator Online" border="0"></a>I'm not sure where to put this so that this option shows up along with the Yahoo and Google options.
Would you like it to replace one of the existing options or in addition to all of the existing options?

Did this go anywhere?Sorry, but no, no updates on that topic. :(

BadgerDog

02-11-2009, 12:07 AM

Would you like it to replace one of the existing options or in addition to all of the existing options?

I'd like it in addition if possible.... :up:

Running v3.67pl1 ...

Thank you for your consideration..... :)

Regards,
Badger

A.Chakery

02-14-2009, 01:02 PM

UIQarene, yes, this should work fine on vB 3.8.0 and above. I have it running on at least two of my personal sites with vB 3.8.0 with no issues.

If you have a problem with it running on vB 3.8.0 (or any other version) just let me know :)

hi dear kevin

I have vb 3.8.1 (latest version) but I still have my problem :(

((( Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /home/persianf/public_html/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195 )))

oh I forgot to say that when I did this (http://www.vbseo.com/f10/does-vbseo-have-any-rss-enhancements-18580/#post115015) (as u said)

I have a blank page now:(:(:(:(:(:(.

When I installed 3.8.1 version , I had this problem too.

I really dont know what to do .

plz help me bro. (I had forgot to press mark as installed sorry about that bro :up:)

thnx in advanced.

KW802

02-14-2009, 05:26 PM

UIQarena,

An updated version is available here....

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204955

Please upgrade to that version and then after you install that version, turn on the vBSEO option in the ACP.

ACP => vBulletin Options => CinVin Forum Feed Listing => vBSEO Installed

Please let me know in the other thread then if that takes care of the problem for you. If it doesn't, let me know that also so I can figure it out. :)

Kevin

bashsoft

05-03-2010, 12:07 PM

hello
dear KW802 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=38540) (Coder/Designer (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=38540#hacks))
no any version for vb4 ???

thanks 4 u

basketmen

09-24-2010, 04:47 PM

Warning: include_once(./includes/functions_vbseo.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 214

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './includes/functions_vbseo.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 214

if you get this error in domain.com/cv_rss_feeds.php , all forums that get this error is using vbseo 3.5 above, since vbseo 3.5 above the folder is changed to /vbseo folder

so to fix it, open cv_rss_feeds.php file,

find this

include_once './includes/functions_vbseo.php';

replace with this

include_once './vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo.php';

done, it will fix the error