Newsfeed with Selector menu on vbAdvanced CMPS

[tomshawk]

Hello Everyone

This little mod, is great if you want to incorporate news feeds into the vbAdvanced CMPS

There is the one Prerequisite: I use the freeware version of carp,
but, if you have another aggregator you can modify this mod to use your own ;)

Carp
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

you can download the free version here:
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/docs/download.php

Install Instructions:
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/docs/install.php

within the zip file is an instruction.txt file that should explain everything.

Demo:
http://www.tech-unity.com

Update:
updated instruction.txt file in the zip to comment on the carp path ;)

[nautiqeman]

Great! -- btw I'm on vbAdvanced.com too :) -- I'm the same guy that asked you for this. Installed and working -- thanks!!!!

[tomshawk]

Great! -- btw I'm on vbAdvanced.com too :) -- I'm the same guy that asked you for this. Installed and working -- thanks!!!!
Glad you got it working and glad you like ;)

[The Realist]

Installed and working 100%



Noticed in the php file you have not stated that the following needs changing as well to the correct path:


<?php
require_once "/home/techun/carp/carp.php";


Needs to be the path of the new user not the path to your site.

[tomshawk]

Installed and working 100%



Noticed in the php file you have not stated that the following needs changing as well to the correct path:



Needs to be the path of the new user not the path to your site.

Thank you "The Realist" Updated the instruction file in the zip. ;)

[Boofo]

Good idea. thank you, sir ;)

Now, can I have the Merllin setup you have. It is great! ;)

[tomshawk]

Good idea. thank you, sir ;)

Now, can I have the Merllin setup you have. It is great! ;)

Thank you, glad you like ;)

The person that created the Merlin setup, said he'll be releasing soon.

That was a couple of weeks ago, I'll ask him about it. ;)

Remember though, anybody that wants it.
Only IE users can view the actual script. :p

I also only have it set up so Unregistered/Not logged in users can see it

[tomshawk]

Now, can I have the Merllin setup you have. It is great! ;)

I just talked to the person that wrote the Merlin Module, he said he'll be releasing it sometime next week.

;)

[NYI Fan]

Tom
This is GREAT! Installed without a hitch, and even though it's only been functional about an hour, I have already had a BUNCH of PMs from members who love this new feature!!

THANK YOU!
*clicks install*

[tomshawk]

Tom
This is GREAT! Installed without a hitch, and even though it's only been functional about an hour, I have already had a BUNCH of PMs from members who love this new feature!!

THANK YOU!
*clicks install*

Thanks NYI Fan

This is easily my biggest hack to date, and I am glad it is welcomed so ;)

Happy New Year!!!

[NYI Fan]

You're very welcome Tom!! It's praise well deserved!

And in case anyone wanted a different image for the news.gif, one of my members made these two for me, so I thought I would post 'em here to share with anyone who might want a choice (NO offense meant on the original, AT ALL! Just figured if someone wanted a choice, they could have one :) The background has been changed to match my colors, but should be very easy to change to match any forum - if anyone wants/needs a transparent version, just yell!

Happy and a healthy new year to you as well! May it be full of many more wonderful hacks from all of you wonderful, generous hackers!

[dethfire]

can we get this without vbadvanced?

[tomshawk]

can we get this without vbadvanced?
I cant imagine why it would not work with vbindex, but I have not played with it, so I dont know how the templates work.

As far as other portals, pretty much the same, you'll have to play with it.

Please let me know though if you get it working, as I am curious.

Just for giggles, What do you plan on using this with?

[aranthorn]

Naw-ice, installed

[vulture]

In template.txt it refers to pages.php

Can't find this anywhere. I'm using 3.0.7

[tomshawk]

In template.txt it refers to pages.php

Can't find this anywhere. I'm using 3.0.7

Sorry vulture,

That is a link to a page I created with links of interest on my site
http://www.tech-unity.com/pages.php?getpage=RSS

You can change that link to whatever you want, or just remove it ;)

[Blackbeard]

Iam having a few problems, iam getting a 404 error message when i select feed1.php on menu selector, i have put feed1.php in the carp folder and its chmod 711(folder is).

I get the welcome screen ok, but when selected not, but when i type url direct to feed1.php the screen with information comes up

here is my homepage to see what i mean

http://www.learnall-forum.com

[tomshawk]

Iam having a few problems, iam getting a 404 error message when i select feed1.php on menu selector, i have put feed1.php in the carp folder and its chmod 711(folder is).

I get the welcome screen ok, but when selected not, but when i type url direct to feed1.php the screen with information comes up

here is my homepage to see what i mean

http://www.learnall-forum.com
the feed1.php file should not go into the carp folder.

The feed1.php file should go into the forumroot/feed directory like this

http://www.learnall-forum.com/feed/feed1.php

HTH

[Blackbeard]

Thanks m8 got it sort, got your message on vbadvance

[Starscream]

Is it possible to change the color of the scrolling news font? I have a dark theme and black lettering is not visible. I would appreciate the help.

BTW, this hack is great!

[SRuvbnhad]

Is there a way for it to default to a certain feed without it actually having to be selected? Example, you go to a certain site and the news feed is already there for whatever.com without having to select it. I tried deleting the first option and creating a feed0.php but it doesn't work.

EDIT: NM I figured it out.

[tomshawk]

Is there a way for it to default to a certain feed without it actually having to be selected? Example, you go to a certain site and the news feed is already there for whatever.com without having to select it. I tried deleting the first option and creating a feed0.php but it doesn't work.

EDIT: NM I figured it out.

Would you mind posting your code for us? I think it should be pretty simple, but being very busy right now, I dont have as much time as i'd like to tinker with things at the moment.

Starscream,
This should be fairly simple, i'll see if I can spend a few minutes on this, but... if you have an account at vbAdvanced there is a gentleman there that figured alot of these things out.
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3098&page=2&pp=30

the post in question is by Protoss

HTH

[Viks]

NICE MOD - TOMSHAWK.

Q1:

// Display it
CarpCacheShow('http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss');

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is this where I will add my list of newsfeed drop down option???

Q2:

Where can I get newsfeed fo other stuff besides technical news... for instance i am looking for newsfeed on medical news.. that has some specific words in the news.

Can I do that using this mod??

appreciate your help

[tomshawk]

NICE MOD - TOMSHAWK.

Q1:

// Display it
CarpCacheShow('http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss');

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is this where I will add my list of newsfeed drop down option???


Q2:

Where can I get newsfeed fo other stuff besides technical news... for instance i am looking for newsfeed on medical news.. that has some specific words in the news.

Can I do that using this mod??


appreciate your help

Just replace this "http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss" with the link to the rss feeds you want to use.
This will get the first one working, use the instructions to get more working ;)

Yes, you can use rss feeds for other things, i.e. not technical, but anything you want. the hard part for you is finding the medical feeds you want to use. ;) I dont have any for you :( , but, some of the medical sites you visit reguarly should have some feeds.

Here is one site that offers some ;)
http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/article.htm

Good luck with this

[Viks]

In template.txt it refers to pages.php

Can't find this anywhere. I'm using 3.0.7

I suppose that is a custom page that you will have to make..its not part of VB. I think Tomshawk wud know about it since he has it on his website.


TomsHawk - few things for you.

1. Excellent HACK! thumps up. I have been looking for something simmilar but did not find anything interesting. RSS is hte most underutilized aspect of forums/BB and u have done a good job.

I have rated the thread as all stars!

2. I am not sure if it is something that is possible but if I can somehow get a better display of the feeds.. then that would be just AWESOME

write now I have the feed up on seperate page but I was wondering if there is an option to have a break after each news item and maybe change the font etc.........that would look better on my boards. any suggestions on that.

Plus a question - Like CARP - are there are any newsfeed display softwares that have a GUI backend so that admins can configure the look and fee of each news feed?

cheers,

Vik

[SRuvbnhad]

Would you mind posting your code for us? I think it should be pretty simple, but being very busy right now, I dont have as much time as i'd like to tinker with things at the moment.

This is what I did to have it default to a specific feed on a page load:
<form name="form">
<select name="select" onChange="displaydesc(document.form.select, thetext, 'textcontainer')">

<!--Feed 0-->
<option>Business Week - Top News</option>
<!--Feed 1-->
<option>Business Week - Investors News</option>
<!--Feed 2-->
<option>Business Week - Small Business News</option>
<!--Feed 3-->
<option>Alabama Weather Alerts</option>
<!--Feed 4-->
<option>Fox News - US & World</option>
<!--Feed 5-->
<option>Fox News - Business</option>

</select>
</form>
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="left"> <span id="textcontainer"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
var thetext=new Array()
thetext[0]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed0.php\" ></iframe>";
thetext[1]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed1.php\" ></iframe>";
thetext[2]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed2.php\" ></iframe>";
thetext[3]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed3.php\" ></iframe>";
thetext[4]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed4.php\" ></iframe>";
thetext[5]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed5.php\" ></iframe>";

I added a feed0.php to the feed directory and just modified/removed some of the other code that was not necessary for it to work. So far it works flawlessly; granted it's not too pretty but for this particular site that's not a problem.

Live demo: http://minemanage.com

[tomshawk]

The CARP website has been down for days now. Where are you guys getting the CARP software. Are they still around?

Any alternatives to using CARP?

If you are still interested in this addon, the Carp website is back up and running

;)

[brianstevz]

Installed and works great. Took a little time to find which RSS streams I wanted but great hack!

[tomshawk]

hey Tom,

Is there a way your mod can be adapted for CARP and GROUPER for news feeds to display on a vbAdvanced CMPS page.

The reason why I ask is because with GROUPER I can convert Google news searches into RSS feeds - which is my real objective: converting Google news searches into RSS and displaying on a vbAdvanced CMPS page.

Thoughts?

Hello blkatt,

I just read through the instructions for grouper.
It looks like it would be rather easy to do.

The instructions for grouper states creating a php file with the path to grouper.php and a set of search terms.

Once you upload this new php file, in my module you'll create a feed#.php file with its link pointing to this one you just uploaded.

And, the grouper.php file defaults to google, so it should work perfectly ;)

Give me a hollar if you want or need help setting this up, I wouldn't mind checking it out, but I myself, at least at the moment, dont need it. ;)

Good luck ;)


brianstevz, Congrats, I'm glad you like it ;)

[blkatt]

Thanks Tom,

I may take you up on your offer for some assistance in setting this up. I am going to give it a shot this evening. I must admit I am a bit technically challenged at times. :) I'll let you know how it goes.

Thank you for all your help.

[BigIke]

Hey great addon Tom. One question though- my news feed (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news) displays everything in Times New Roman. Is there a way to change the font and font size so that everything looks "seamless"? My initial thought was that one of the carp files might need to be modified, but I didn't want to mess up what I've got so far. Thanks again for the addon

[BigIke]

bump

[tomshawk]

Hey great addon Tom. One question though- my news feed (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news) displays everything in Times New Roman. Is there a way to change the font and font size so that everything looks "seamless"? My initial thought was that one of the carp files might need to be modified, but I didn't want to mess up what I've got so far. Thanks again for the addon

Sorry bringindaruckus,

I'm sorry for the late reply.

If you have an account over at vbadvanced, someone posted a way for you change fonts and what not, His name is Protoss, so he gets the credit for this. I attached the file

Just change to your feed and test it. Remember to save a copy of your feed file in case you dont like the changes. ;)

I hope it helps

[BigIke]

awesome tom, thanks again... worked perfectly :)