News Reader with RSS Feeds - For Dummies

[lefthome]

Please click Mark as Installed if you use this modification >>>>

Seriously, I got tired of trying to figure out how to get the news I wanted on my site that provided the whole story and not just a description or a feed that was nothing more than a ?disguised ad? for another site, so I located a Google Map Reader, acquired permission to use the program and wrote a ?modification for vb.?

Files to edit: 0
Queries to run: 0
Uses Product: Yes
Template Edits: 1

Testing:
I have tested this on 3.5.x and 3.6.x and it works fine on both. 3.5.x users follow this link:

VbGoogleNews 3.5.X version 1.0.2 ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=145919)


What this program does:
This is a Google Map with interactive pins on each continent. Access is gained via the navbar.

Usage:
Select the location on the map that you?d like by dragging mouse, click on pin until you locate the exact country, region, local area you desire and the news will appear. Click on article and a new window will display story; members never leave your site.


Changelog
v1.0.1 working version
v1.0.2 two minor modifications to adjust width



Since the Reader and RSS Feeds is remotely hosted and they do the upgrades, I can?t think of any improvements necessary, but feel free to make suggestions and/or provide file(s), translate to another language, whatever!


Live Demo:
http://www.namelessboard.com/forum/googlenews.php

[tanyeri24]

very hot baby! Thanks!

[bashy]

Just had a quick look at the demo and when i clicked for my home town news, the news was doubled and tripled, is there a fix for this please?

Other than that, great mod, well done

[rjmjr69]

WOW novel Idea. Will test it out.

Works fine for me thank you...............3.6.5

[voteforbird]

Wow. This is very, very cool.

[thedvs]

this is awesome, many thanks

[Ascor]

Nice idea ! are the news available in other langage as english ?

[wizardan]

Outstanding:)
Installed.

[vip-q.com]

I like it too much but what about Arabic news ?

[lefthome]

Nice idea ! are the news available in other langage as english ?

I will find out if this is possible.


I like it too much but what about Arabic news ?

Provide a news feed(s) and I will get it installed, in fact, we encourage anyone to submit news feeds, but it should be for local news.

[thedvs]

can we make it a little wider?

[lefthome]

can we make it a little wider?It's at 680px now. What did you have in mind? :)



*edit*

By the way, making that change is really easy if you would like to do it yourself.

Admin CP => Styles & Templates => Style Manager => Edit Templates => Googlenews

Find:
<script>setTimeout('hmap(680,500,0,0,0,0,0,10,0,1);', 100);</script>

Change the width and/or height as desired. They are the first two numbers in brackets: 680 (width) 500 (height).

[vip-q.com]

you didn't catch my point
I was means the hack in Arabic all of it ( News & Design ) not only News

and I'll send to you feed News from bbc and aljazeera.net and alarabiya.net this web site are the best in Arabic News

[vip-q.com]

for BBC ( middle east news )
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/middle_east_news/rss.xml

General news from Alarabya.net
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/rss_top08.xml
political news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/PoliticsPage.xml
Sports news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/SportsPage.xml
economic news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/FiniantialPage.xml

and they are not for local news ( it for general news ) but in arabic

[iorkara]

Awesome Thank you

[lefthome]

for BBC ( middle east news )
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/middle_east_news/rss.xml

General news from Alarabya.net
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/rss_top08.xml
political news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/PoliticsPage.xml
Sports news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/SportsPage.xml
economic news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/FiniantialPage.xml

and they are not for local news ( it for general news ) but in arabic

I put in a request to the host and should have an answer back in a day or two. :)

[Tralala]

This is sweet!

The sidebar with the news doesn't appear in Safari (Mac OS X.) Hopefully you'll be able to fix that?

[Fungsten]

I'm installing it on my test board!!

On Edit:

I set it up and got nothing. I'm a noob, do I have to do something with the RSS Feeds also? I don't have those working.

[lefthome]

I'm installing it on my test board!!

On Edit:

I set it up and got nothing. I'm a noob, do I have to do something with the RSS Feeds also? I don't have those working.
I called this News Reader and RSS Feed for Dummies for a reason so we don?t have to do squat other than load the hack. The rss feeds is remotely hosted, so this has to be an installation issue.


A few step-by-step questions:

You are using vbulletin 3.6.5, yes?
Did you upload the vbgooglenews.php to your root directory?
Did you upload the four pictures to your image/misc directory?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Plugins & Products =>Manage Products => Add/Import Product => upload googlenews.xml=> Import?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Styles & Templates => Edit Templates => Navbar and install link?

If you did all that then there is no reason this program will not work

[lefthome]

This is sweet!

The sidebar with the news doesn't appear in Safari (Mac OS X.) Hopefully you'll be able to fix that?

I don't even know anyone that has a mac so I can look, therefore, I will have to research this question and get back to you.

[Fungsten]

I don't have the four pictures Everything else yes.

Where are the pictures?

I called this News Reader and RSS Feed for Dummies for a reason so we don’t have to do squat other than load the hack. The rss feeds is remotely hosted, so this has to be an installation issue.


A few step-by-step questions:

You are using vbulletin 3.6.5, yes?
Did you upload the vbgooglenews.php to your root directory?
Did you upload the four pictures to your image/misc directory?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Plugins & Products =>Manage Products => Add/Import Product => upload googlenews.xml=> Import?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Styles & Templates => Edit Templates => Navbar and install link?

If you did all that then there is no reason this program will not work

[Fungsten]

Oh well. Great hack!

Nominated!!

[lefthome]

Oh well. Great hack!

Nominated!!Thank you and I should called the pictures .gif files. They are located in the image folder.

[imfeelingitdawg]

Awesome! I love it being a news junkie. Now I can easily catch up on news around the country. One question. Why does the navbar seem to be stretched out longer than the page when viewing the map? It's more of an asthetic issue as it doesn't affect much other than having a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.

[Endurer]

This is awesome.. thanks man :)

Nominated, installed and rated.

[lefthome]

Awesome! I love it being a news junkie. Now I can easily catch up on news around the country. One question. Why does the navbar seem to be stretched out longer than the page when viewing the map? It's more of an asthetic issue as it doesn't affect much other than having a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.

If you would please PM me a link to your site. I would like to look at what you are talking about. :D

[imfeelingitdawg]

If you would please PM me a link to your site. I would like to look at what you are talking about. :D

Actually the same thing happens on the demo link for the mod. I can make the browser window as large as possible, 1650 X 1050, and I still have to scroll left and right. In other words, for some reason, the navbar is over 100%. Make any sense?

[Alien]

Uncached templates: Googlenews (1)

I also noticed in the breadcrumb/navigation that "Googlenews" is forced to a weird color sometimes instead of reading the proper colors of the style like other areas do...

[Alien]

To fix uncached template, edit googlenews.php

and change:


$globaltemplates = array('googlenews');

to

$globaltemplates = array('Googlenews');

[Alien]

...and to fix the second bug I reported:

Edit Googlenews templates, and add:


$stylevar[htmldoctype]


To the very top of the template.

[wilburshere]

installed love it

thank you

[lefthome]

...and to fix the second bug I reported:

Edit Googlenews templates, and add:


$stylevar[htmldoctype]


To the very top of the template.

Thanks for pointing those out. I have uploaded a fix for these issues and updated the files for new installs.

[SirFlash]

Works perfectly on my vb3.6.4 thanks!

[Fungsten]

Works on 3.6.5.

[PoetJA-1975]

This is a really really nice modification - Thanx for the share ;)

Jacquii.

[BadgerDog]

Using v3.6.4 of VBBS with v1.0.2 ....

When importing XML file, I get:

XML Error: XML_WAR_UNKNOWN_VERSION at Line 72

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Badger

Edit: In an effort to see if I could find out what's wrong with importing Line 72, I simply tried to open the XML with IE as I've done with many others. When I do that, it says:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invalid version number. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Desktop/googlenews.xml'. Li...

<?xml version="1.0.2" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

[peril]

Beautiful mod ! Works perfect with main forum which is installed in a sub-directory.
How to make it work from VBA which is at root?

[lefthome]

Using v3.6.4 of VBBS with v1.0.2 ....

When importing XML file, I get:

XML Error: XML_WAR_UNKNOWN_VERSION at Line 72

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Badger

Edit: In an effort to see if I could find out what's wrong with importing Line 72, I simply tried to open the XML with IE as I've done with many others. When I do that, it says:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invalid version number. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Desktop/googlenews.xml'. Li...

<?xml version="1.0.2" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

My bad! When I was updating the xml file I changed, not only the program version but also this version....Here, install this xml instead. I have fixed the zip file too:(

[BadgerDog]

My bad! When I was updating the xml file I changed, not only the program version but also this version....Here, install this xml instead. I have fixed the zip file too:(

Fixed.... installed... works great....

Thank you... :)

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

lefthome ... :)

Quick question....

What do I add where, to get it to open a NEW page instead of opening and replacing the current page?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[lefthome]

lefthome ... :)

Quick question....

What do I add where, to get it to open a NEW page instead of opening and replacing the current page?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

open up the navbar template and replace the code (installed for this modification) to the following:

<! -- Googlenews -->
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="googlenews.php$session[sessionurl_q]" target="_blank">Googlenews</a></td>
<! -- Googlenews -->

notice that all you are doing is adding the word target_blank" But unless you are comfortable doing that; then just cut and paste the code. that minor addition will make the map appear in a different tab/page :)

[BadgerDog]

open up the navbar template and replace the code (installed for this modification) to the following:

<! -- Googlenews -->
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="googlenews.php$session[sessionurl_q]" target="_blank">Googlenews</a></td>
<! -- Googlenews -->

notice that all you are doing is adding the word target_blank" But unless you are comfortable doing that; then just cut and paste the code. that minor addition will make the map appear in a different tab/page :)


Thanks.... Done.... works great....

Regards,
Badger

[fpattberg]

Thanks for this great mod. Works perfectly! :cool:

Fabian

[lefthome]

Thanks for this great mod. Works perfectly! :cool:

FabianYou are very welcome. :)

[iogames]

I must say! WOOOW! and can I narrow the news to certain topics? or resize the window? can I add more RSS' Feeds?

[lefthome]

I must say! WOOOW! and can I narrow the news to certain topics? or resize the window? can I add more RSS' Feeds?

Open up navbar template and located the following:

<script>setTimeout('hmap(680,500,0,0,0,0,0,10,0,1);', 100);</script>
The first two numbers 680-width and 500-height. Adjust those as desired but I suggest you leave the others alone.

Regarding the feeds; this is a remotely hosted map and all that you can do is submit me the rss links you'd like and I will ensure they get reviwed. Make sure you provide information on exact area news is regarding, i.e. Country, State, City, etc.

[Robru]

Can I choose, which language show up in the articles?

[lefthome]

Can I choose, which language show up in the articles?

The reason I did this hack was because I really didn't want to mess with feeding the board rss feeds, hence, News Reader with RSS Feeds for Dummies.

Anyway, if you would like a new feed added, remember these are remotely hosted, provide me with the country, state, city, etc and the link to the feed and I will ensure it is added to the database, which will take a few days to accomplish. :)

[BadgerDog]

I think they've changed something on their site and this mod has now stopped working?

It was working fine, but now the news panel on the right side of the screen no longer appears? :confused:

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Badger

[apiasto]

Excellent work, thnx

[BadgerDog]

I think they've changed something on their site and this mod has now stopped working?

It was working fine, but now the news panel on the right side of the screen no longer appears? :confused:

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Badger

Anyone else started getting "fatal errors" as the mod tries to read in the text stories? The arrow spins for a long time, then it goes to an error message?

Was working fine, but lately getting more of these....

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Badger

[Alibass]

@badger

Yes I am having same thing on my site. I am fixing to disable hack until problem solved. Hard to say if it's the news feed having issues or they actually changed something. :confused:

[LordDB]

How would I resolve this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: iconv() in /home/content/a/s/p/aspaan/html/headlinemap.com/lastRSS2.php on line 81

[lefthome]

I've been away for several months and just noticed it isn't working anymore. I will get this fixed asap!

[lefthome]

The link has been fixed and everything should be working fine now.


Sorry!:o

[LadyHoney]

luv it luv it luv it.. ty

[ArnyVee]

I'd like to have a 'news feed' with Disney-related information on my site. Would this hack be a solution to what I'm looking for?

If so, then could the information carry over to CMPS (my vBadvanced homepage)?

I'm less than two months into modifying my site, so I'm still relatively new. Be gentle. :)

[SirFlash]

ArnyVee - This hack can't be modified to filter out only Disney news, GoogleNews only provides regular News as gathered by Google, this hack lets you click on a location in the world and get local news from that part of the world only. If you want to provide Disney-related information to your website, i recommend you create a new Disney forum in your vbulletin and add a new RSS Feed to load info into that forum. You can get Disney RSS feeds from http://www.wdwinfo.com/rss/ and http://www.wdwmagic.com/rss.htm and http://www.magicalmountain.net/WDWNewsDetail.asp?NewsID=1898 (Use Google to find more Disney RSS Feeds).

[ArnyVee]

Thanks SirFlash!

So, then I could make a module in my vBadvanced homepage (CMPS) and 'feed' the info to it, I would assume.

How do I load info into a particular forum using the RSS feeds? And, can I have more than one RSS feed in a forum?

[ArnyVee]

Forget it....got it. :)

[Hugo Holbling]

This is currently working fine on 3.7.0.

[thedvs]

Works great with v3.8.2 too!

[thedvs]

anyone know is it works with 4.0.6?

[Fungsten]

anyone know is it works with 4.0.6?

I just tried it and it does not work. I wish someone would upgrade it.

[thedvs]

coder seems to abanded it, can some kind coder port this to vb4.x?