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Vizionz

10-04-2005, 04:55 PM

article bot isnt converted to 350 even in the beta forms. this was working on betas just aint working for gold

Snakey

10-04-2005, 06:00 PM

trilljester

10-04-2005, 07:09 PM

Thank you, this works!!!!

@jluerken: just disable guests to post messages ;)

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Example: I have a movie review feed forum that gets its feeds from Roger Ebert's website. I created a user named Roger Ebert and made him moderator of the Movie Review Forum. He can override any flood prevention, thus making the RSS feeds work. Thanks for finding this!

hobbes747

10-04-2005, 09:25 PM

I think I figured out the error. Try setting your flood post option to 0 seconds, meaning users do not have to wait to post again. I don't know why, but these automatic posts have to obey the same rules as a regular user.

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Between this and this it works. Good job!

offline

10-04-2005, 09:28 PM

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Example: I have a movie review feed forum that gets its feeds from Roger Ebert's website. I created a user named Roger Ebert and made him moderator of the Movie Review Forum. He can override any flood prevention, thus making the RSS feeds work. Thanks for finding this!

trilljester,

You are the man!!! Works like a champ now, made my user a moderator and no problems! Thanks for the info.

imported_-Sidekick-

10-04-2005, 10:52 PM

Any time table on this being upgraded to vB 3.5.0 Gold?

popowich

10-04-2005, 10:55 PM

Any time table on this being upgraded to vB 3.5.0 Gold?

Works OK for me.

Did you try it / are you getting any errors?

-Raymond

imported_-Sidekick-

10-04-2005, 11:32 PM

I installed it and added a Top Stories Feed from CNN.com. It was posting the same story 4 or 5 times in a row. I was also getting the following error when manually trying to update a feed:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

I got the understanding from someone else's reply that I wasn't the only one having problems on 3.5.0 Gold. ???

popowich

10-04-2005, 11:36 PM

That's the same problem I had yesterday, check out this page and the page before for clues ;) Disable your post flood checking (make the value 0, default seems to be 30) and someone else recommended making your RSS member a moderator for the forum is posts to, but I have not tried that msyelf. Good luck!

-Raymond

imported_-Sidekick-

10-04-2005, 11:43 PM

If that's the case I'd rather wait for a update. I'd rather not jeopardise potential more spam on my board by disabling flood protection, for the sake of having a feed.

The fact that you can't use HTML in the Thread Post RSS Construct area also keeps me away. Most Feeds I run into post a description of the story with a link to the full story. The links won't dynamically convert to links and stay as just text because vB picks it up as a possible malicious link.

I'd rather decompress the Link to a Click Here phrase anyway to clean up things a bit. Though HTML is not allowed and ruins the feed settings.

popowich

10-04-2005, 11:52 PM

If that's the case I'd rather wait for a update. I'd rather not jeopardise potential more spam on my board by disabling flood protection, for the sake of having a feed.

I believe that's what the make your RSS member a moderator is for,
so that you do not have to disable the flood protection.

The fact that you can't use HTML in the Thread Post RSS Construct area also keeps me away. Most Feeds I run into post a description of the story with a link to the full story. The links won't dynamically convert to links and stay as just text because vB picks it up as a possible malicious link.

I'd rather decompress the Link to a Click Here phrase anyway to clean up things a bit. Though HTML is not allowed and ruins the feed settings

Works forme, surround the suggested XML code with | url= | | /uril |
(the line sare open and close square brackets)

-Raymond

Kirk Y

10-05-2005, 12:01 AM

imported_-Sidekick-

10-05-2005, 12:09 AM

Perhaps if you'd read the thread before posting. I posted a link earlier to a plugin that gives you the ability to allow specific Usergroups to post HTML in any forum, without having to enable HTML in that forum.

I did read the thread. Though like everyone else that runs into a 15+ Page thread, you tend to skim through it rather quickly. Forgive me for being human. If the best you can do is be a smart ass, then please keep your replies to yourself. Your help is not needed, nor wanted.

imported_-Sidekick-

10-05-2005, 12:11 AM

I believe that's what the make your RSS member a moderator is for,
so that you do not have to disable the flood protection.

I tried this, and it did not work for me.

Works forme, surround the suggested XML code with | url= | | /uril |
(the line sare open and close square brackets)

-Raymond

Blah. I never tried BBCode. Stupid me. Thank you for your help Ray.

TundraSoul

10-05-2005, 02:59 AM

I agree, good job! I'm also looking for a way to specify the icon with the feed. This makes feeds easier to identify from regular posts. The users also appreciate it.

Thanks

Zero Tolerance, wow, just wow. This is so incredibly cool. Thank you!

What about specifying the thread icon for each feed?

jribz

10-05-2005, 06:50 AM

I upgraded to 3.5 Gold a few hours ago and have still had no issues with the product.

ManagerJosh

10-05-2005, 07:59 AM

I upgraded to 3.5 Gold a few hours ago and have still had no issues with the product.

I'm still annoyed at:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

Zero Tolerance

10-05-2005, 08:10 AM

v1.6: Bugs fixed and works on 3.5 gold :)

- Zero Tolerance

sensimilla

10-05-2005, 09:16 AM

great job i was looking for it :) thanks
you are a very skilled young person ZT :)

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://today.reuters.com/rss/topNews/" the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified (data)

Please check settings related to this issue.

hmmm :ermm: any ideas ?

Red Fox UK

10-05-2005, 09:20 AM

Why is the version of this mod v1.6, but installed from the download is v1.5?

Did I miss a file?

kall

10-05-2005, 10:11 AM

Perhaps if you'd read the thread before posting. I posted a link earlier to a plugin that gives you the ability to allow specific Usergroups to post HTML in any forum, without having to enable HTML in that forum.

Perhaps ZT would link to that plugin (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96926) in the first post of this thread...given that this brilliant hack was the sole inspiration for my coding it. :)

jluerken

10-05-2005, 10:17 AM

v1.6: Bugs fixed and works on 3.5 gold :)

- Zero Tolerance

ZT I think you have to update the .zip file here.

product-inferno_rss.xml is still showing version 1.5

bloodwrath

10-05-2005, 01:48 PM

mine is also showing 1.5?

curriertech

10-05-2005, 02:02 PM

The file date of the .xml file is 8/18, he may have forgotten to upload the new zip. :o

SkyShadow

10-05-2005, 02:45 PM

Same here:

possible bug found:

The plugin does not update itself.
When I start the cron I get the following message:

Warning: main(): Unable to access /home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/./includes/cron/ffrss.php in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(/home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/./includes/cron/ffrss.php): failed to open stream: Success in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/./includes/cron/ffrss.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Chmod is 777

Looking forward to hearing from you soon

ManagerJosh

10-05-2005, 02:55 PM

Check what you added into your cron; you entered the pathto incorrectly.

'/home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/./includes/cron/ffrss.php'

dieselpowered

10-05-2005, 03:40 PM

So are we awaiting the uploading of the correct .zip?

SkyShadow

10-05-2005, 04:20 PM

I've checked the url. There was a "." too much

Now I get:

Warning: main(): Unable to access /home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/includes/cron/ffrss.php in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(/home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/includes/cron/ffrss.php): failed to open stream: Success in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/www/web1/html/politikpla.net/forum/includes/cron/ffrss.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

dieselpowered

10-05-2005, 04:41 PM

I appears the new files have not been uploaded yet.

trilljester

10-05-2005, 05:08 PM

I'm still annoyed at:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

Come on dude, we told you how to fix that problem.

Either:

1. Disable flood protection in the VBOptions
or
2. Make the user who posts your feeds a moderator of the forum he's posting to.

Kirk Y

10-05-2005, 06:41 PM

I did read the thread. Though like everyone else that runs into a 15+ Page thread, you tend to skim through it rather quickly. Forgive me for being human. If the best you can do is be a smart ass, then please keep your replies to yourself. Your help is not needed, nor wanted.

It's not rocket science: "Search this thread"...

Thanks for the update Zero, nice to see you've returned and do support your hacks... sorta.

XtremeOffroad

10-05-2005, 06:51 PM

When uploading the files all went fine but still shows 1.5 after the product update, Any Ideas?

dieselpowered

10-05-2005, 07:28 PM

When uploading the files all went fine but still shows 1.5 after the product update, Any Ideas?

LOL totally off topic, but hey man nice name ;)

SO I am curious to know if these are new files or not??

ManagerJosh

10-05-2005, 08:09 PM

Come on dude, we told you how to fix that problem.

Either:

1. Disable flood protection in the VBOptions
or
2. Make the user who posts your feeds a moderator of the forum he's posting to.

Neither of the above you suggested fixed it. The 1.6 version ZT released fixed it quite well :)

On another note, is anyone experiencing a case of Deja Vu with the RSS 1.6 version?

dieselpowered

10-05-2005, 08:25 PM

On another note, is anyone experiencing a case of Deja Vu with the RSS 1.6 version?

Ok so is the file in fact 1.6???

When I look at the xml, it is still showing 1.5????

XtremeOffroad

10-05-2005, 08:26 PM

LOL totally off topic, but hey man nice name ;)

SO I am curious to know if these are new files or not??

But what's offtopic about it? We are discussing rss feeds 1.6 arent we? and the new update isnt showing 1.6 so I think i'm on topic and lost.

LOL you too.

yea I'm curious too. :D

dieselpowered

10-05-2005, 08:41 PM

But what's offtopic about it? We are discussing rss feeds 1.6 arent we? and the new update isnt showing 1.6 so I think i'm on topic and lost.

LOL you too.

yea I'm curious too. :D

HAHA no I meant my comment about your name was off-topic.

Trying to figure out if the new files are 1.5 or 1.5 is completely on-topic :)

XtremeOffroad

10-05-2005, 08:59 PM

HAHA no I meant my comment about your name was off-topic.

Trying to figure out if the new files are 1.5 or 1.5 is completely on-topic :)

Ahhhh right on I was really cornfused for a few. :nervous:

ManagerJosh

10-05-2005, 11:43 PM

Yes, Apparently a bug exists.

RSS Feeds reposts OLDER items even though it's posted about them previously.

imported_-Sidekick-

10-06-2005, 12:46 AM

too funny

Dream

10-06-2005, 01:53 AM

did the upgrade update the version number? it shows 1.5 in my product manager

drdaco

10-06-2005, 02:12 AM

I found that if I make the ficticious user a supermod I can get it to work.

Just letting you guys know, those with the

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

trilljester

10-06-2005, 05:16 AM

Neither of the above you suggested fixed it. The 1.6 version ZT released fixed it quite well :)

On another note, is anyone experiencing a case of Deja Vu with the RSS 1.6 version?

Hmmm, well, I'm running 1.5, and had the same exact error as everyone else, I made the feed user a moderator of the forum, and have not got an error since. It fixed it for several others also.

garrynewman

10-06-2005, 10:27 AM

I'm trying to get this stream to work

http://steampowered.com/rss.xml

But it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag.

Anyone got any suggestions?

phantomatvietna

10-06-2005, 11:32 AM

Thanks for the hack ! It's very useful !

drdaco

10-06-2005, 01:42 PM

I noticed that too. I too have an rss link whose parent tag is RDF:rdf but also ends in xml.

I'm trying to get this stream to work

http://steampowered.com/rss.xml

But it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag.

Anyone got any suggestions?

c0d3x

10-06-2005, 03:53 PM

the dupe problem is still present :\

Blindchild02

10-06-2005, 04:10 PM

http://www.prowrestling.com/index.php?section=other&id=rss

how do i add the 'main headlines' to it?

EDIT: NM!

works great! http://www.hulkforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=28

trilljester

10-06-2005, 04:40 PM

http://www.prowrestling.com/index.php?section=other&id=rss

how do i add the 'main headlines' to it?

Plug this address into the Detect RSS Settings box:
http://prowrestling.com/php-bin/rss/?pageurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prowrestling.com%2Findex .php%3Fid=news

It should tell you what to do.

Blindchild02

10-06-2005, 04:44 PM

hahah yeah i got it! i edited my post :)!

pcoskat

10-06-2005, 05:14 PM

ok, please excuse my lame-ness, but I only understand things from an 'end user' perspective. Do I understand how this extension works?

- This works with the most recent version of VB
- I can use it have posts from my WordPress blog, appear as posts in my vB in whatever forum I designate

Did I get that right?

If so, I am so in love with whomever created this. Love, love, love! :)

trilljester

10-06-2005, 05:42 PM

If your Wordpress blog spits out RSS feeds, then sure, this will do that.

pcoskat

10-06-2005, 06:38 PM

If your Wordpress blog spits out RSS feeds, then sure, this will do that.

What actually appears in the vB post?

A link to the feed, or all of the text in a specific article?

trilljester

10-06-2005, 07:16 PM

I think it depends on what you configured to output in your RSS feed.

Check out one of my RSS Feed posts from Roger Ebert:
http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/showthread.php?t=375

Mellow

10-06-2005, 07:39 PM

Sweet!... thank you sir..

garrynewman

10-06-2005, 08:57 PM

I made kind of a hacky bounce script to solve the rdf:RDF problem.

It's probably better that the plugin is fixed but this will tide us over until then..

Make a php file with this in it..

<?

$h = fopen( "http://steampowered.com/rss.xml", "r" );

while (!feof($h))
{
$rss .= fgets($h, 4096);
}

$rss = str_replace( "</channel>", "", $rss );
$rss = str_replace( "</rdf:RDF>", "</channel>\n</rdf:RDF>", $rss );
$rss = str_replace( "content:encoded", "content", $rss );

echo $rss;

?>

Now use the address of that script as your RSS feed (the auto detect thing should be able to figure it out)

HC.

10-06-2005, 10:04 PM

need help
On update I get this
While attempting to parse the document located at the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified ()

Please check settings related to this issue.

What need to be added to make this work
Please tell me where and what to add in every box so I can learn from my mistake

HC.

10-06-2005, 10:13 PM

error on detect

HC.

10-06-2005, 10:24 PM

another error playing around

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

HC.

10-06-2005, 11:00 PM

I am lost
I have tried several different ways but nothing works
I had it take the feed but no new posts

HC.

10-06-2005, 11:18 PM

fixed after playing around a bit

ixian

10-07-2005, 12:21 AM

This script has the passed variables error that PHP 5.0.4 "fixed" and is also present in 5.0.5, resulting in the following error:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /path-snipped-by-ixian/htdocs/forums/includes/class_ffrss.php on line 371

The line in question is:

$ThreadDM->setr('dateline', $this->get_dateline());

Which is invalid in 5.0.4/5 and presumably future versions. I've tried a couple fixes but I am missing something - can anyone figure it out?

eMike

10-07-2005, 03:24 AM

Amazing hack but i seem to have a problem with the links.
Every feed posted returns the link with the tags (as shown below)

http:// http://www.someurl.com/feed.rss 

I use this code in the "Thread Post RSS Construct" window
Published: {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[urI={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

How can I fix this ?

ManagerJosh

10-07-2005, 04:58 AM

[urI={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

I see URI and not URL

eMike

10-07-2005, 05:25 AM

Was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice

Point was - the code is identical to the creators example. vB translates that bbcode into a link and hides the code behind the output.

Original problem still unsolved

garrynewman

10-07-2005, 09:28 AM

I'm having a problem with duplicates now :(

ManagerJosh

10-07-2005, 09:36 AM

I'm having a problem with duplicates now :(

Posted earlier about it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=787752&postcount=289

Gizmo5h1t3

10-07-2005, 12:42 PM

I'm having a problem with duplicates now :(

rofl...welcome to this thread mate...heh heh

join the club.

ixian

10-07-2005, 03:40 PM

Well, thanks to The Geek, coder extraordinare of such addons as Geek Article System and Geek Mark, I got the variables problem fixed with PHP 5.0.5 and here's the thing - it might take care of the duplicate post problem some of you are experiencing as well.

In a nutshell, PHP 5.0.4 and above "fixed" a bug with passing variables as part of a string. You aren't supposed to be able to do that and in fact in a lot of cases it won't work if you do, but PHP previously wouldn't report an error message when it happened. Now it does and in fact stops the script from running further. This has caused some consternation as a lot of scripts which previously "worked" ended up breaking because of this fix, but in fact it's really a good thing long term since it exposes errors in code people never realized were there.

Case in point, this script: With PHP 5.0.5 the class_ffrss.php file errors out with the message I posted earlier. The string in question is on line 371:

$ThreadDM->setr('dateline', $this->get_dateline());

Which as you can plainly see is passing a variable as part of the string itself, which is a no no. You will also note that said string has to do with getting the date of the RSS feed it is about to post, which I suspect is the root cause of the double-posting a lot of you have been seeing - the string above will produce no error with PHP versions lower than 5.0.4 but neither will it work correctly.

To fix this error, replace line 371 shown above with:

$dateline = $this->get_dateline();
$ThreadDM->setr('dateline', $dateline);

The above will work whether you have PHP 5.0.5 or not, remember the "bug" has always been there, new versions of PHP just bother to point it out.

This works just fine for me and as an added bonus I have yet to see a duplicate post, although I can't guarentee this is the fix for that issue.

And be sure to thank The Geek and vote for his hacks because that guy is a genius. :)

Gizmo5h1t3

10-07-2005, 04:06 PM

edited the file as mentioned, gonna test it for dupes.....

works so far...
forcing a feed update pulls zero new posts....

il try later, and post back here....

ixian

10-07-2005, 05:29 PM

I've yet to see a dupe now. Ha! Two bugs fixed in one!

(knocks on wood)

Gizmo5h1t3

10-07-2005, 06:45 PM

I've yet to see a dupe now. Ha! Two bugs fixed in one!

(knocks on wood)

yep, just been back on me site..deleted all the posts i grabbed from the feeds arlier, and tried forcing a feed update with a cron job done manually....updated with zero posts....

seems the dupe problem has been sorted out....

hope everyone else can use this info to try it on their boards... :ninja:

ManagerJosh

10-07-2005, 07:11 PM

I've yet to see a dupe now. Ha! Two bugs fixed in one!

(knocks on wood)

still seeing duplicates.

SkyShadow

10-08-2005, 09:21 AM

My problem is unsolved.
Please help

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=787221&postcount=278

garrynewman

10-08-2005, 10:46 AM

I think I figured out why I was getting duplicates. Kinda.

The order was set the wrong way. On the first import I had to have it on back to front to order the posts right, but then front to back to update it so it doesn't repeat.

garrynewman

10-08-2005, 01:56 PM

ManagerJosh

10-08-2005, 09:44 PM

I've got a question related to this.

Is it possible to have the posts not get 'bumped' to the top of the list when a user replies. Have the always ordered by the date of the first post?

Is that possible?

BTW, ZT came up with this kewl mod for me for the HTML usergroup cause HTML still appears. Note: You need this Plugin (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926) Installed for it to work

./includes/class_ffrss.php

FIND:
$ThreadDM->registry->options['floodchecktime'] = 0; // Disable flood check in memory...

BELOW IT ADD:
$vbulletin->overide_html = 1;

IN: bbcode_parse_start (Plugin Manager) for plugin "Allow Usergroups to post HTML"

FIND:
if ($permissions['allowhtmlpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_allowhtmlpermissions['canposthtml'])

REPLACE IT WITH

if (($permissions['allowhtmlpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_allowhtmlpermissions['canposthtml']) || $vbulletin->overide_html)

Now it should render feeds properly.

Note, this doesn't work if you installed this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=789413&postcount=319) fix... for some reason those lines of codes make the mod above break.

garrynewman

10-08-2005, 10:02 PM

Did you mean to quote me?

ixian

10-09-2005, 01:05 AM

Note, this doesn't work if you installed this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=789413&postcount=319) fix... for some reason those lines of codes make the mod above break.

That's because you are making the exact same mistake my fix corrects with the other line of code; you are passing a variable as part of a string. That code won't work with newer versions of PHP 5 period whether my fix is used or not.

ManagerJosh

10-09-2005, 01:21 AM

That's because you are making the exact same mistake my fix corrects with the other line of code; you are passing a variable as part of a string. That code won't work with newer versions of PHP 5 period whether my fix is used or not.

Hey I didn't write the code.... ZT did :)

Az_Rael

10-09-2005, 03:55 PM

Testing now...so far this works great!!!

Thanx ZT! You da MAN

dreck

10-10-2005, 10:06 PM

NIce...!

Installed on 3.5 no problems.
Created a new user & moderate posts in new forum. Allowed html code in the forum.
I used google Top News:

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title

NOw all I have to do is find the post where I saw something about keeping the news feed out of new posts search? :)

Hope someone will find away around the dupe soon. :ermm:

Thanks, dreck

*install*

tommykilla

10-10-2005, 10:10 PM

I still keep getting duplicates.

c0d3x

10-11-2005, 05:41 AM

me too!!

GrendelKhan{TSU

10-11-2005, 03:04 PM

omg.. I so freaking happy.

I fiiiiinaaaaaallllllllyy got it to work!!! :D

it was all about the cURL. I even had to switch hosts (UGH!) to get a host that would allow me to enable cURL. ;) :D

anyway.... haven't seen duplicates yet. but that is preferred to nothing at all for me. ;)

* GrendelKhan{TSU finally clicks INSTALL!!

btw...3.5.0 Gold

weaver

10-11-2005, 03:14 PM

The moderator tip didn't work for me. I had to set post flood to 0 in order to stop the duplicates. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that I'm missing but the new moderator account I created for the feeds was still limited by the post flood protection.

Sanjiyan

10-11-2005, 08:30 PM

I have installed this hack, and I have it importing the html just fine, but I have a problem.

the RSS feed when it wants to start a new line does, something like following:

same test. new line

The forum post it makes, ends up doing this:

same test.

new line

As you can see it does two line breaks. Any idea if I can get it to ignore the BR tag if it sees two of them?

You can see an example here: http://www.friendship7.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2389

Any ideas why it messes up when it comes to the tags?

Or how do I get it to remove all the html tags from the rss feed?

artonex

10-11-2005, 10:58 PM

Hey all im running vB3.5 Gold and ive added a feed.

I press the update button and i get this error.

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

Does anyone know how to fix?

BLazeD1

10-12-2005, 12:35 AM

Like the others, it is creating a lot of duplicate threads

Sanjiyan

10-12-2005, 07:03 AM

NiROE

10-12-2005, 07:50 AM

Amazing... I was putting off upgrading to vB3.5 because I wasnt sure if I could get a good replacement for articlebot, but this easily fits my needs.. Thank you :D

GrendelKhan{TSU

10-12-2005, 08:03 AM

wow. I actually just went through this entire thread :O

so, here's the quick OVERVIEW of what's up with this (doesn't cover everything, but most of the common problems/questions-- UP TO NOW):

feel free to correct me or update if I got something wrong...

==================================================
HACK SUPPORT/BUGS OVERVIEW:
This hack DOES work for MOST people in 3.5 Gold. If it doesn't for you....read on....

Just assume this hack is NOT supported!!!! And won't be for sometime.

ZT is busy on other things. It may get updated sometime again (after ZT is done with the RPG game he is making for vb) and everyone will be stoked. But if you can't deal with that...then don't install and don't complain.
(or go to his forums and see if you can reach him there). ;)

ERROR:
The feed is correct but you keep getting this error message: "INVALID URL TO RSS FEED GIVEN" (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=778087&postcount=139)

---solution:
cURL or open_URL needs to be ENABLED in your server.ini file. THIS HAS TO BE DONE BY YOUR HOST PROVIDER. I had to actually move hosts to get it. :/

ERROR
Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758
Download latest version (we THINK is the latest.) This MIGHT fix it. (it worked for him (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793548&postcount=340))

If still doesn't work.......
then past solutions:

----solution:
Flood Protection or Create Moderator (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=787272&postcount=280)
more detailed info (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=786452&postcount=254)

but that only works for some people. :(

THIS solution (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=789413&postcount=319 ) seems to work as well, and/or explain why it WON'T for some. But I'm a n00b too, so that is greek to me.

What version is this? it still reads as 1.5 but the download says 1.6
----see directly below

ERROR
Duplicates!!....... Duplicates!!! =P

---Solution:
well ZT made a brief announcement saying everthing was fixed HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=786968&postcount=268) ...but looks to have forgot to actually update the ZIP download (1.5 to 1.6) before disappearing again. lol. It MAY be 1.6...but lists as 1.5 in the admincp.

anyway... MOST PEOPLE STILL HAVE THIS ERROR. Some don't. Maybe 1.6 will get uploaded, maybe not....but see first item in this list if you got a problem with that. Until then.......

YOU HAVE TO JUST DEAL WITH IT OR FIX IT YOURSELF!!!

Parse URLS? (whatever that means... :p)
Do this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=777990&postcount=137

Ane at the bottom of that post...you will find the answer to:

Problem
Set up so RSS feeds do NOT appear in NEW POSTS
Again:
One other thing someone was asking how not to exclude these posts in new posts or todays posts - do this.. if you have rss feeds in 16 15 and 23

just add &exclude=6,15,23 to the end of the do=getnew url and it'll exlude the forums with the forumids 6, 15 and 23.
(that is, modify the navbar template.^^)

OR you can use this: Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025)

Problem
You do NOT want to enable HTML in the rss forum!!

Then do this: new user in new usergroup with html enabled (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=780183&postcount=157)
Using this: Allow Users Groups to post HTML (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926)

PROBLEM
"it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag." (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=788253&postcount=294)

then this is a temp solution:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=788817&postcount=306

PROBLEM
Chokes on enclosure tags since there is no end tag. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793944&postcount=344)

An enclosure tag looks like this -
Code:
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:29:27 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" length="4700889" type="audio/mpeg" />
<media:content url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" fileSize="4700889" type="audio/mpeg">
<media:adult>false</media:adult>
</media:content>

---solution: none. Needs to updated to deal with this

QUESTION:
how do I get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

---answer: You can't. You are at the mercy of the RSS feed itself. Its nothing to do with the hack, but dependent on the what the xml feed spits out itself.

there are some other issues....but those are the one's I saw with solutions or clear answers (good or bad).

please let me know if I messed any of that up and I'll update this post. ;)

Hope that helps. I wrote mostly for myself as well....shhesssssh!! this thread. +_+;;.... lol

Sanjiyan

10-12-2005, 09:40 AM

NxTek

10-12-2005, 05:53 PM

How does Inferno handle Podcasts (enclosure tags) and also images?

Is anyone getting any feeds with images? I'm interested to see how Inferno handles them.

Also, Inferno chokes on enclosure tags since there is no end tag. You might add that to your list GrendelKhan.

An enclosure tag looks like this -
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:29:27 -0500</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" length="4700889" type="audio/mpeg" />
<media:content url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" fileSize="4700889" type="audio/mpeg">
<media:adult>false</media:adult>
</media:content>

I really hope this mod is supported and doesn't turn into an "Article Bot".

xtreme-mobile

10-12-2005, 06:48 PM

how can i get the rss feed to display in full on my forum? at the moment it only shows a line or 2 of text then offers a link, is there a way of being able to get the full report rather than lose the members from my forum?

cheers

Celtic_Mad

10-12-2005, 08:01 PM

msu2k

10-12-2005, 08:34 PM

I would love to add this to my site but I request that all of my users add a special Post Icon whenever they post a link to a news story. Is there any way to alter this so that all the new posts that this makes get a certain Post Icon? Thanks for the help, great hack otherwise.

b6gm6n

10-13-2005, 02:11 AM

{XML[title]}

should work right? well it saves ok, but wipes my RSS settings after i save, might not like the extra tags, works for [B] etc

-b6

GrendelKhan{TSU

10-13-2005, 03:54 AM

Is anyone getting any feeds with images? I'm interested to see how Inferno handles them.

Also, Inferno chokes on enclosure tags since there is no end tag. You might add that to your list GrendelKhan.

done. refresh :)

or click RSS SUPPORT/BUGS OVERVIEW POST (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342)
:)

@extreme-mobile: I don't think so. As I understand it (could be wrong), its nothing to do with the hack, but dependent on the what the xml feed spits out itself.

xtreme-mobile

10-13-2005, 05:52 AM

done. refresh :)

or click RSS SUPPORT/BUGS OVERVIEW POST (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342)
:)

@extreme-mobile: I don't think so. As I understand it (could be wrong), its nothing to do with the hack, but dependent on the what the xml feed spits out itself.

ok thanks mate

b6gm6n

10-13-2005, 11:57 AM

I have got http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=829&format=rss as my RSS Feed link, but everytime it updates, it adds the same news over and over again in the forum instead of just adding the newest ones without adding the whole lot of them again.

yeah same ere! - the feed is good, just adds the same amount over & over again, stops at a certain point in time and i dunno why...hmmm

EDIT - looks like version 1.5 is still online, instead of the bug fixed 1.6, might fix this duplicate problem

-b6

Deimos

10-13-2005, 11:18 PM

I just installed this AOK, butttttttt

When it first ran, it added some 29 new threads, no problem
But, no matter how many times i click "mark as read", they still show up on the new post count?

b6gm6n

10-14-2005, 02:12 AM

I just installed this AOK, butttttttt

When it first ran, it added some 29 new threads, no problem
But, no matter how many times i click "mark as read", they still show up on the new post count?

try editing your "new posts" link in your navbar template

Add the &exclude=27 (change 27 to the forum id where your feeds are posted)

http://www.mysite.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=27

-b6

blue6995

10-15-2005, 02:49 PM

I am a complete novice at this so please bear with me. I appear to have installed it properly but how do I get it to show in a Forum? I have set up the name of the Forum through the ACP>RSS Forum Feeds

Thank you

adb22791

10-15-2005, 03:32 PM

Hello,
I have this hack on my forums, and its great! Much better than article bot. I would like to add a Slashdot feed, but can't seem to be able to add it. Has anybody else successfully added one? Whenever I try I get a bunch of errors :(.

popowich

10-15-2005, 04:36 PM

Hello,

Should I be able to get this feed to work?

http://www.billrini.com/xmlfeeds/cp_news.xml

This is the first one I have seen with the RDF in it, seems to be giving me some troubles.

I am trying to use:

channel / items / title

{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}Read more... (surrounded by the URL tags)

It gives me the error:

The system could not find the thread "title" tag you specified (title)

-Raymond

cynix2

10-15-2005, 08:17 PM

@abd22791 and popowich

I myself tried to add slashdot and Was unsuccessful at getting it to detect an rdf feed.

@b6

I was trying to incorperate html into my definations area so that it would hot link and what not. Seams html is not allowed because it just dumps everything. Try sticking with bb code.

subnet_rx

10-16-2005, 01:34 AM

One question, is the version number in product manager still supposed to read 1.5?

hexonxonx

10-16-2005, 04:36 PM

I have read all the way through page 16 and gave up.

Does anyone know how to get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I have this working perfectly, I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

Thanks

popowich

10-16-2005, 05:21 PM

I believe you are at the mercy of the source of the feed.

You get the teaser, than click the link to go to their site.

Otherwise, why would you visit their site?

-Raymond

Allan

10-17-2005, 02:07 PM

Work perfectly, thanks Zero Tolerance ;)

"Click Install"

eoc_Jason

10-17-2005, 02:26 PM

That's not how RSS works. The purpose is just to give the short bit of info, with the link to the full article.

If you wanted to copy the whole article, then you would have to write some sort of custom screen-scraping script for each site...

Does anyone know how to get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I have this working perfectly, I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

Thanks

c0d3x

10-17-2005, 02:26 PM

bah... it does not works "correctly"

... /me clicks uninstall :(

b6gm6n

10-17-2005, 04:46 PM

anyone ever had a feed update from cron yet?

garrynewman

10-17-2005, 05:12 PM

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

question?

10-17-2005, 08:53 PM

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/digitalmusic" the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified ()

Please check settings related to this issue.

I've done it the first, time but then deleted it. Then when i added a new one, i got that error when i try and update it.

bgray

10-18-2005, 09:57 AM

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

I'm having the same problem. Anyone know a way to get around the duplicate posts? Zero, you have an idea?

klaush

10-18-2005, 01:05 PM

Well, that is, what i was lookong for!

Thanks for this great job!

VaaKo

10-18-2005, 02:10 PM

I'm not being able to add a new RSS Feed, I press the submit button but it keeps on loading and never adds anything!

VaaKo

10-18-2005, 02:21 PM

I am getting this error, when I try to input the given details for the BBC News:

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

any suggestions?

Celtic_Mad

10-18-2005, 02:53 PM

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

Anyone? This is really annoying when it posts the same thing over and over again!

eoc_Jason

10-18-2005, 03:15 PM

I too can not get slashdot to work, so I'm digging through to code to try and fix it.

Also, for titles I noticed that it decodes things like quotation marks instead of leaving them alone, then you get a messed up thread subject.

EDIT - Found the problem with slashdot. The "channel" tag opens & closes before the item tags. Thus it is not really a parent for it and is why the code will not parse it properly.

VaaKo

10-18-2005, 04:40 PM

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

what's wrong?!

VaaKo

10-18-2005, 09:36 PM

anyone care to tell me what could the problem be?
please!

hillbilly_jim

10-19-2005, 03:18 AM

http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Available RSS Post Construct Tags
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[pubDate]}
Try this it works for me.

TyleR

10-19-2005, 03:35 AM

anyone ever had a feed update from cron yet?

didnt work for the first few days, but has been working lately..only "bug" per-say is that characters are being displayed awkward..such as: WP: Lawmaker’s Abramoff ties under scrutiny

it sometimes does it in the description aswell.

GrendelKhan{TSU

10-19-2005, 04:43 AM

once I again.... tons of repeat questions....

PLEASE check this post:
OVERVIEW OF BUGS AND PROBLEMS
here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342
post # 342

I'll try to keep it updated with the most common questions/problems.

That said....
in future maybe ppl could just link to that post for replies to common questions.

No, that'a not self-promotion, I don't get anything out of it besides not having to repeat myself and read the same questions over and over again. ;)

lata.

VaaKo

10-19-2005, 08:05 AM

GrendelKhan{TSU, I heard you were facing the same problem as I am now, did you fix it?

TyleR

10-19-2005, 04:39 PM

b6gm6n

10-19-2005, 06:16 PM

OVERVIEW OF BUGS AND PROBLEMS
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342
post # 342

Thanx my man, i've been following this thread as much as you have, i thankyou for your help and collection of bugs and posts which certainly have helped when tracking down a problem, cheers for that... lets hope the dupe problem and my cron not updating problem all gets sorted soon, it's a great hack but a pity about these annoying bugs...anyways i'll keep on waiting :)

-b6

VaaKo

10-20-2005, 09:20 AM

anyone found the fix to the duplicated posts?

Totti

10-20-2005, 04:37 PM

ho mate,

does this mean that if my news-script supports rss i can automatically create threads with this news inside with this extension?

NxTek

10-20-2005, 05:14 PM

Can anyone get http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml working?

hillbilly_jim

10-21-2005, 04:46 AM

Can anyone get http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml working?

http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title
Available RSS Post Construct Tags
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[category]}
{XML[pubDate]}

This worked for me.

deathemperor

10-21-2005, 09:57 AM

NxTek

10-21-2005, 01:55 PM

http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title
Available RSS Post Construct Tags
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[category]}
{XML[pubDate]}

This worked for me.

Yeah that's what I have except for my Construct Tags are
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}

but it doesn't pull any new items :(

hillbilly_jim

10-21-2005, 02:57 PM

Yeah that's what I have except for my Construct Tags are
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}

but it doesn't pull any new items :(

Did you go to Control Forum feed and update? It is the cleanest looking feed I have found I ddnt have any improper html items or anything. The cron job even pulled the feeds for me this morning.

jluerken

10-21-2005, 05:36 PM

Hi, I installed this hack and had a small problem.

The NEW POSTS option from the navbar shows a long list with the posts from my RSS forum. I do not want this cause I only want message from users and not from RSS bots there.

I asked Andreas (KirbyDE) if he has an idea and he had (as always :D).

I want to share his solution with you.
@Zero Tolerance, maybe you can place this in the install description or the first post

Open your Plugin Manager and add a new Plugin (NOT Product)
Entry point is:
search_getnew_start
Code is:
$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= (($vbulletin->GPC['exclude']) ? ',X' : 'X');

where X is the forumid from the forum you want to exclude from the NEW POSTS search.

If you want to thank someone please thank Andreas.
He is my new vB guru :D

eoc_Jason

10-21-2005, 06:36 PM

If you didn't want to make it a plugin, I believe you could modify your navbar and add the &exclude=x,y,z in the URL for it.

jluerken

10-21-2005, 07:17 PM

If you didn't want to make it a plugin, I believe you could modify your navbar and add the &exclude=x,y,z in the URL for it.

...but then you have to do it for every style.
With a plugin you only need to do it once :D

belai123

10-22-2005, 11:51 AM

Installed and works great Menopause 911.com (http://www.menopause911.com)

teach1st

10-23-2005, 07:31 PM

hillbilly_jim

10-23-2005, 08:56 PM

Thanks for this - it works well and my users love it.

I've been able to get every feed I've tried but this one.

http://www.sptimesphotos.com/classroomfeed.xml

Anybody care to take a whack at it? Thanks!

From what I have seen it wont work with Atom Feeds.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=782089&postcount=191

platnum

10-24-2005, 01:04 AM

This is nice, just what I was looking for.. Thanks alot!.

FASherman

10-24-2005, 01:36 AM

Has the double-posting problem been fixed yet? is this or is it not v1.6?

DjTaz

10-24-2005, 09:16 PM

Zero , Thanks a million for this great hack

... i have a feed on my boards 3.0.7 and it works great , but this hack on my test boards doesnt seem to want to let the same feed work ... any chance you can let me know what the problem is ?

http://www.ireland.com/feeds/rss/breaking/irish.rss

Thanks

b6gm6n

10-24-2005, 09:37 PM

Everyone says thanx at first, then we have the dupes! :) it's a great hack let down by two major bugs i've found, the dupes of course and the cron not updating the feeds (dunno about you but it doesn't update for me) no logs in my cron...nuthin!

I was so looking forward to this i made it a well publicized feature of my forums, just to have it stall and splutter and give a forum admin a red face!

You must be a busy chap, so no worries, it's a great hack which lies in wait for it's master to slap the bugs out!

-b6

FASherman

10-24-2005, 11:41 PM

I agree completely. Thats why I was so surprised when it was moninated for Hack of the Month in September (or was it August?).

A hack should have to work as advertised before being nominated for anything. This is a great hack on paper, but sorely lacking in implementation.

garrynewman

10-25-2005, 06:24 PM

I think I've prevented the duplicates.

I'm going to test it out a bit more before I upload it though.

Allan

10-25-2005, 08:43 PM

The hack manages the tag "enclosure" ?

garrynewman

10-26-2005, 10:13 AM

OK, it seems to be working just fine. This fix will only work on new posts that are added to the forum. So if you get repeats just delete the OLD threads and you won't get any more (Or start from new).

in includes/class_ffrss.php
find the function "function post_thread($title, $message, $feed)"
and after global $vbulletin;

add:
$dupehash = md5($feed['feed_forum'] . $title . $message . $feed['feed_user'] . 'thread');

if ($prevpost = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
SELECT posthash.threadid
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "posthash AS posthash
WHERE posthash.userid = " . $feed['feed_user'] . " AND
posthash.dupehash = '" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string($dupehash) . "'"))
{
return;
}

then at the bottom of the function after $ThreadDM->save();

add:

$vbulletin->db->query_write("
INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "posthash
(userid, threadid, dupehash, dateline)
VALUES
(" . intval($feed['feed_user']) . ", " . intval($ThreadDM->fetch_field('threadid')) . ", '" . $dupehash . "', " . TIMENOW . ")
");

then, and I don't know whether this is 100% needed but..

replace the whole function get_dateline()

with

function get_dateline()
{
$this->dateline = TIMENOW + 1;
return $this->dateline;
}

(in my test this prevented it from adding another invalid posthash)

Vierie

10-26-2005, 11:03 AM

skizzy203

10-26-2005, 12:44 PM

didnt work for the first few days, but has been working lately..only "bug" per-say is that characters are being displayed awkward..such as: WP: Lawmaker’s Abramoff ties under scrutiny

it sometimes does it in the description aswell.

I need a fix for this too, I read as far back as I could and didn't see anything that targeteted this problem. Is there anyone that knows what the deal is on the quotation (") and apostrophe (') charecters being replaced with garbage?

A fix for that would soothe my headache.

b6gm6n

10-26-2005, 02:17 PM

OK, it seems to be working just fine. This fix will only work on new posts that are added to the forum. So if you get repeats just delete the OLD threads and you won't get any more (Or start from new).

No errors, seems to work ok, im actually pulling an RSS feed of my photopost gallery installation, the feed gives various information about new uploads, uploader, thumbnail, comments etc... and is generated on the fly when a new upload is in, pulls them ok and works a treat, but although my cron log says it's run the 'cron_ffrss.php' i have rarely had an update, i hope this may fix that :)

-b6

slamdog

10-26-2005, 09:46 PM

after trying all the fixes i'm still getting dupes from avn but not the bbc or sky news.

thanks to all who have helped/tried to fix so far.

the actual setup was a breeze, worked first time on gold.

nailerpa

10-28-2005, 02:20 AM

I can't seem to get this to work. Can someone please post a screen shot of what the Navbar edit looks like exactly? Much appreciated!

@Dream

One other thing someone was asking how not to exclude these posts in new posts or todays posts - do this.. if you have rss feeds in 16 15 and 23

just add &exclude=6,15,23 to the end of the do=getnew url and it'll exlude the forums with the forumids 6, 15 and 23.

Thanks Zero another great hack...

chairman miaow

10-28-2005, 08:36 AM

after trying all the fixes i'm still getting dupes from avn but not the bbc or sky news.

thanks to all who have helped/tried to fix so far.

the actual setup was a breeze, worked first time on gold.

Same here - got Sky and BBC feeds working fine now without duplicates....but the cron job doesn't appear to be updating the feeds still...

Vierie

10-28-2005, 09:36 AM

I can't seem to get this to work. Can someone please post a screen shot of what the Navbar edit looks like exactly? Much appreciated!

The code for "New Posts" is search.php?do=getnew . If you want to exclude certain forums, you have to change that to search.php?do=getnew&exclude=x,y x and y being the numbers of the forums you want to exclude.
With "Today's Posts" it's normally search.php?do=getdaily . You have to change that to search.php?do=getdaily&exclude=x,y .

Just look for these words in your navbar template and change them.

b6gm6n

10-28-2005, 05:15 PM

Well, i'm not sure if it's this mod or the rss feed from my photopost gallery but the feed does not update via cron, it is being run according to my logs, if i manually click 'update feed' i get nothing also... BUT if i alter the 'Feed Read Direction' from newest first to newest last it'll update the feed...weird huh? either way it's a bug which stops this great hack from being totally automatic!

One which although good, is the crippled leg of my forum!
( i may have to amputate the duff leg )

Are there any other hacks along these lines?

-b6

nailerpa

10-28-2005, 08:56 PM

Ugh...I'm just not getting it...still not working. Does this look right?

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily&exclude=97,98" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>

The code for "New Posts" is search.php?do=getnew . If you want to exclude certain forums, you have to change that to search.php?do=getnew&exclude=x,y x and y being the numbers of the forums you want to exclude.
With "Today's Posts" it's normally search.php?do=getdaily . You have to change that to search.php?do=getdaily&exclude=x,y .

Just look for these words in your navbar template and change them.

ManagerJosh

10-28-2005, 09:58 PM

Ugh...I'm just not getting it...still not working. Does this look right?

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily&exclude=97,98" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>

Okay for the double post, here's something we gotta fix ourselves. ZT isn't doing it, so we're on our own

From what I can tell, and piecing ZT's data, he's basing the last stuff on RSS by title of the RSS feed. I think we need to move this to date based. This might be a key problem as it isn't programmed to handle based on title. Plus titles change, and can throw the thing off. But dates shouldn't throw it off if its consistent enough.

See: $tableprefix_rssfeed, column: feed_lastadded

FASherman

10-29-2005, 12:53 AM

Has anyone figured out how to limit this to the first X items in a feed?

testing2

10-29-2005, 01:23 AM

This works great!

Anyway, is there a way to have all feeds listed in a single thread, as opposed to having a single thread for each title?

e.g.) Suppose I create a thread id 100, and the script adds just the title and link from the RSS feed to this thread. After a month (or day, or week), I (or the script) can start a new thread for that month, and adds the new data into that single thread..

I think it can be done with a little bit of tweaking to this script.. Each feed seems to have too little information to warrant a new thread, but I like the idea of having just the title of the news in a thread.

Anyone who can help me on how to do this?

garrynewman

10-29-2005, 08:17 AM

Bah, my fix stopped working. Does the posthash table get cleared periodically?

GT1

10-29-2005, 11:47 AM

Well I have read through all 28 pages of posts and I am guessing I am missing something because this still does not work....

I set it up completely, entered in my RSS and then when I go to click up date it says I did not specify a select or something like that. Can someone please help me out with this. Thank you.

b6gm6n

10-30-2005, 05:58 PM

Well I have read through all 28 pages of posts and I am guessing I am missing something because this still does not work....

Join the club mate, after weeks of no responce for updates do not work via cron, and dupes i gotta remove the hack, it's depressing.

*Uninstalled

-b6

Code Monkey

10-30-2005, 06:38 PM

I couldn't get this to work, so I made articlebot work with vb 3.50.

Now I am happy again. :D

GT1

10-30-2005, 10:56 PM

I couldn't get this to work, so I made articlebot work with vb 3.50.

Now I am happy again. :D

Well why not post and share with the rest of us? ;)

antboy

10-31-2005, 04:22 AM

Have installed this (eg upload file use product manager to run xml file) but nothing shows - in fact did it twice :disappointed:

running 3.5 with photopost & cmps

can anyone help me debug what i have done wrong pls

A

Code Monkey

10-31-2005, 01:11 PM

Well why not post and share with the rest of us? ;)

I did in the articlebot thread in 3.0 forums. I got it to run my existing feeds but the admin script still needs to be ported to enter new ones.

popowich

11-01-2005, 01:05 AM

Hello,

I have several feeds that are working nicely with vb3.5. The following feed I am having a problem with. The link is broken in the "archive" part of the link, within my forums there is a space inserted in the middle or the word archive. Is there a way for me to correct this issue?

The feed:

http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/daniel-negreanu-blog/rss.php

The examples:

http://www.wnypoker.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=39

(I fixed the fact that it's not a linked link already)

Thank you,
-Raymod

vau7

11-04-2005, 04:06 AM

I have some uninterpreted HTML-Codes in the title:

for example an title looks like this:

Ja Rule mit "Exodus"-Compilation

Any fixes? I cant search this thread for &quot because it seems it is on the badwordslist.

edit: Ohh, and the Links arent parsed!

fluentdesigns

11-05-2005, 05:06 PM

Ya it seems like Zero is not supporting this anymore. Anybody here willing to jump in and get this mod fixed for us? Very important mod to my community! :(

vau7

11-05-2005, 07:38 PM

Oh that would be sad.

akoj

11-06-2005, 02:44 AM

Great hack. Works perfectly for me!

Anyone use this as a cmps module yet? and if so, can you please share the instructions?

b6gm6n

11-06-2005, 03:04 PM

Ya it seems like Zero is not supporting this anymore. Anybody here willing to jump in and get this mod fixed for us? Very important mod to my community! :(

i had to ditch it, good, but dont work as intended, shame

-b6

fluentdesigns

11-07-2005, 05:27 AM

yep me too.... *clicks uninstall*

NxTek

11-07-2005, 12:43 PM

Same here. Another buggy unsupported hack. :ermm:

jluerken

11-07-2005, 12:46 PM

Same here. Another buggy unsupported hack. :ermm:

It is working fine. I installed it on two different boards.
Whats your problem with it?

NxTek

11-07-2005, 12:54 PM

Primarily the enclosure tag bug, but also duplicates and others listed on https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342

jluerken

11-07-2005, 12:57 PM

Primarily the enclosure tag bug, but also duplicates and others listed on https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=793570&postcount=342

Sorry to say NxTek but I am not using RSS Feeds containing Video or Sound Files.

btw. this is not the meaning of RSS.
Its like using email for ftpying files :D

You can give this one a try: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=100269

TrickyD

11-08-2005, 04:05 PM

Could someone offer me some assistance in getting the following feed working?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nfl/news

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nfl/news" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here.

Thanks in advance.

mindfrost82

11-08-2005, 07:26 PM

For some reason, some of my RSS feeds imports the articles more than once.

They both seem to import the articles everytime it updates:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news

http://www.broadbandreports.com/rss20.xml

I'm not sure why though.

Mr. Tech

11-08-2005, 11:44 PM

Hey! Great script!

Is it possible to stop the RSS feeds from showing up in the new posts page?

rWorld

11-09-2005, 01:52 AM

I was able to install it, but I can't get it to work. How do I get rid of it? I can't find any removal instructions.
Do I just delete the folder and remove the scheduled task and plugin via admincp or is there a special uninstall procedure?

Regenerate

11-09-2005, 08:15 AM

Hi guys,

To bad about ZT not supporting this anomore... :(

But I have a Q: does anyone know how to get the links in the posts working? I got lazy visitors that want to click around instead of copy-paste... :)

Here you see what I mean: http://www.dutchjoomlers.com/showthread.php?t=1183
You can see 2 links, 1 in the 'news body' and one below that is generated bij the Inferno RSS plugin with the code {XML[link]}.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

NxTek

11-09-2005, 01:36 PM

Sorry to say NxTek but I am not using RSS Feeds containing Video or Sound Files.

btw. this is not the meaning of RSS.
Its like using email for ftpying files :D
Of course it's a meaning of RSS. How do you think Podcasting works? :)

You can give this one a try: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=100269
Yeah I will. I was using it on 3.0.x. Hopefully the author won't abandon support. :ermm:

Thanks.

Vierie

11-09-2005, 01:42 PM

Regenerate

11-09-2005, 02:06 PM

Use [ url]{XML[link]}[ /url] instead of {XML[link]}.I can use BB code there? Ok, thx, I'll try...

nailerpa

11-09-2005, 05:47 PM

I think there were a couple of posts within this thread on how to do this, but nothing has worked for me yet.

Hey! Great script!

Is it possible to stop the RSS feeds from showing up in the new posts page?

Vierie

11-09-2005, 10:43 PM

I can use BB code there? Ok, thx, I'll try...

Yes, you can. :)

tuanluu

11-10-2005, 08:20 AM

Help with "RSS Settings" Please

I can now see the XML like the example

http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/index.xml

thanks

oneillsean

11-11-2005, 12:53 AM

Vbulletin 3.5.1

I give this mod a thumbs up!

I installed this mod and have it working. Don't try to use google news rss feeds. They all kinds of formatting in the description. Went with yahoo.

I am seeing a few glitches. Random characters are appearing in the message body.
Example - http://www.snocrazy.com/forum/showthread.php?t=495
It might just be the feed from yahoo. I am also seeing off topic articles from them.

Here is a sample of google news rss feed. Let me know if you find a way to make it work.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<generator>NFE/0.8</generator>
<title>Google Search: snowmobile</title>
<link>http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=snowmobile&ie=UTF-8</link>
<description>Google Search: snowmobile</description>
<language>en</language>
<webMaster>news-feedback@google.com</webMaster>
<copyright>©2005 Google</copyright>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:48:57 GMT</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:48:57 GMT</lastBuildDate>
- <image>
<title>Google Search: snowmobile</title>
<url>http://news.google.com/images/news_res.gif</url>
<link>http://news.google.com/</link>
</image>
- <item>
<title>Filmmaker not guilty in snowmobile stunt death - CBC British Columbia (Audio)</title>
<link>http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_snowmobile-death20051110.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_snowmobile-death20051110.html</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description> <table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top><a href="http://news.google.com/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_snowmobile-death20051110.html&cid=0">Filmmaker not guilty in snowmobile stunt death</a> CBC British Columbia (Audio), Canada - 5 hours ago A BC Supreme Court judge has decided there was not enough evidence to convict a Vancouver-area filmmaker in a snowmobile stunt that cost a young man his life. ... </table></description>
</item>

oneillsean

11-11-2005, 01:00 AM

It is replacing the character with â

Any ideas? Is this a Vbulletin thing?

Here is the xml.

- <item>
- <title>
- <![CDATA[ Emo council agrees to study snowmobile bylaw (Fort Frances Times)
]]>
</title>
<link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/snowmobile/SIG=11n52m0o4/*http%3A//www.fftimes.com/index.php/2/2005-11-09/23380</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/snowmobile/SIG=11n52m0o4/*http%3A//www.fftimes.com/index.php/2/2005-11-09/23380</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:07:49 GMT</pubDate>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Dr. Ingrid Krampetz addressed Emo council at its regular meeting held Monday night about the safety of snowmobiles within the village limits. They use excessive speed, whipping along where people could be walking, she remarked.
]]>
</description>
</item>
- <item>

D|ver

11-14-2005, 09:03 AM

Knoxvegan

11-15-2005, 10:56 PM

I can't figured out where to upload the files too. Also, it keeps kicking me out of the Admin CP ever since I created the task. Any ideas on both questions? Thanks.

Knoxvegan

11-15-2005, 11:32 PM

I got the install fixed but I'm still suffering login problems after this install. It seems to kick everyone out randomly and require login.

funfone

11-17-2005, 10:26 AM

Non stop duplictaes every day I'm afraid - clicks uninstall

gc1

11-17-2005, 02:14 PM

I have a forum that deals with missing people that 3 ladies run that have gotten actual laws passed in their states regarding missing people.

You don't even know how much easier it has made these ladies jobs that works tirelessly for a non profit org to get amber alert rss feeds .

Thank You very much for this

NineToez

11-20-2005, 05:32 AM

Love this mod, execpt for some duplicate posts and wish it didn't show up on the 'New Posts' section. You can prune the forum that you have these posts go in to which isn't a big deal, but all in all an excellent extension.

b6gm6n

11-23-2005, 11:27 PM

how do you remove the 'RSS Forum Feeds' ACP menu controls, i've uninstalled...

EDIT : remove the custom xml from includes/xml/

-b6

tomf

11-27-2005, 04:16 PM

I don't know if there is allready a better fix for rdf feeds, but here is mine:

I used the fix from garrynewman
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=788817&postcount=306

open class_ffrss.php

add at the top
require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_core.php');

find
$this->XML_Parse =& new XMLparser(false, $vbulletin->GPC['feed_location']);

comment it out and add this
//##### START MODIFICATION #####
$rss = @file_get_contents($vbulletin->GPC['feed_location']);
$searchresult = strpos($rss,'</rdf:RDF>');
if($searchresult !== false)
{
$rss = str_replace( "</channel>", "", $rss );
$rss = str_replace( "</rdf:RDF>", "</channel>\n</rdf:RDF>", $rss );
$rss = str_replace( "content:encoded", "content", $rss );
}

$this->XML_Parse =& new XMLparser($rss);
//##### END MODIFICATION #####

jesus likes pie

11-28-2005, 11:59 PM

What did I do wrong?

RSS Feeds Update

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

RSS Feed:
http://www.pcgamer.com/atom.xml

Parent RSS Tag Name: title (had to guess on that one)
Items RSS Tag Name: content
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct: (left empty)

FASherman

11-29-2005, 12:12 AM

What did I do wrong?

RSS Feed:
http://www.pcgamer.com/atom.xml

Parent RSS Tag Name: title (had to guess on that one)
Items RSS Tag Name: content
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct: (left empty)
1. Its not an RSS format feed, its an ATOM feed. Two different animals.
2. You've installed this hack instead of ArticleBot.

NineToez

11-29-2005, 05:41 PM

Any news lately on fixing double posting perhaps? Is it in the cron job?

DjTaz

11-30-2005, 09:44 AM

Im having a problem where the newsfeed posts the first time no problem - it gets 27 posts and puts them up ... and then thats it ?

I need to delete that feed , and put in another one manually for it to work again - and still the same thing when i do that - even update feed doesnt work

any suggestions ?

FASherman

11-30-2005, 10:47 PM

DjTaz

12-05-2005, 11:58 AM

So your suggesting uninstall this and install ArticleBot 3.5 instead ?

I was hoping for an easier answer to get this one working to be honest

NineToez

12-06-2005, 05:41 AM

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758
Got the same error as jesus likes pie and I don't wanna hear about ArticleBot. How do I fix this? I have four feeds my vB scans twice a day for; two are fine and the other two give me this error when I run it manually.

NineToez

12-07-2005, 04:11 AM

^^ Anyone have any insight on this?

JPQuiceno

12-07-2005, 03:37 PM

Does anyone know how to get the Slashdot Feed to work? I haven't seen anyone who has been able to.

Floris

12-11-2005, 06:38 PM

Does this work yet on 3.5.2?

FASherman

12-12-2005, 12:58 AM

Does this work yet on 3.5.2?
If you mean "worked" as in functioned as designed, it has never worked.

So your suggesting uninstall this and install ArticleBot 3.5 instead ?

I was hoping for an easier answer to get this one working to be honest
Yes, that is what I am suggesting. I installed ArticleBot in place of this and I have been so much happier since.

NineToez

12-12-2005, 04:02 PM

ArticleBot doesn't work well for me at all; this one does a much better IMHO and yes, I'm running 3.5.2 so it's fine. The fatal error I had before had to be due to a bad RSS feed since I couldn't find anything else wrong with it and works flawlessly since I removed the suspect feed.

GrendelKhan{TSU

12-12-2005, 10:46 PM

If you mean "worked" as in functioned as designed, it has never worked.

Yes, that is what I am suggesting. I installed ArticleBot in place of this and I have been so much happier since.

how DO you uninstall this? and any recommendations for the best transition from this to articlebot?

I was just going to install articlebot, get that running, THEN uninstall this so as to have no gap in feed service. is that a bad idea?

The Chief

12-13-2005, 12:26 AM

I have just installed it on my vB 3.5.2 and it seems to work fine, except for posting, it just doesn't seem to work, when I QR it doesn't show up in AJAX and when I reload the post, my post is like before the article, when I reply to somebody's post in that one, mine goes under his???

can anybody help with this?

loonytune15

12-13-2005, 01:46 PM

uninstalled due to the massive amounts of duplicates.

had no probs with the cron job btw.

MOREAGA

12-13-2005, 04:29 PM

everytime i try to update my feed it shows this

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

and also when i was able to post it wouldn't show the content of the post, just the title and in the actual post it would say description.

silurius

12-16-2005, 06:12 PM

I get this error also on 3.5.2, even with cURL enabled. My host directed me to this page (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/CURL) to see "how they handle it".

Is there anything further I need to do to this hack to take advantage of cURL?

ERROR:

The feed is correct but you keep getting this error message: "INVALID URL TO RSS FEED GIVEN" (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=778087&postcount=139)

---solution:

cURL or open_URL needs to be ENABLED in your server.ini file. THIS HAS TO BE DONE BY YOUR HOST PROVIDER. I had to actually move hosts to get it. :/

Rik Brown

12-16-2005, 10:14 PM

everytime i try to update my feed it shows this

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

I just installed the plugin today and get the same error message. I'm new to RSS so I'm just attempting to duplicate the BBC News sample above.

Any ideas? Thanks. -- Rik

Rik Brown

12-17-2005, 05:41 AM

I just installed the plugin today and get the same error message. I'm new to RSS so I'm just attempting to duplicate the BBC News sample above.

Any ideas? Thanks. -- Rik

Well, I found the reason was that I hadn't entered the following code:

Published: {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
}]Read More... ({XML[link)

H@K@N

12-17-2005, 09:09 AM

Hi @ll,

i'm having trouble with the charset.

On my Forums i am using ISO-8859-9. The Feeds i am getting have for ex. UTF-8.

When i check the posted Feed, i am getting following:

yerel a?�daki makinelerin kaynaklarına ula?�abiliyor, onlara mesaj atabiliyor ve daha nice i?�ler yapabiliyorduk. Sonra bunun Internette de i?�e yarama ihtimali var mı diye merak ettim. ?�ünkü Kablo Internet ba?�lantısında da Kablo Modem bir a?� ba?�da?�tırıcısı olarak görünüyordu. Ve subnet maskesi de dial-uplardaki gibi 255.255.255.255 de?�il, 255.255.192.0?��dı. Bu sayede di?�er Windows makinelerle en azından aynı subnettekilerle ba?�lantının gerçekle?�mesi gerekir diye dü?�ündüm. ?�ünkü router geçmeyecekti. Sonra da komut satırından ba?�ladım net view \\IP_adresi girmeye.

Does somebody know, how i can handle this ?

th@nks

lairnoc

12-19-2005, 06:59 AM

ok my board members did not like the rss feed. how can i uninstall this?

GrendelKhan{TSU

12-20-2005, 02:15 AM

ok my board members did not like the rss feed. how can i uninstall this?

I'm still waiting on that answer too. :(

H@K@N

12-20-2005, 05:01 AM

I'm still waiting on that answer too. :(

1 - Delete first Feeds in ACP
2 - Goto Manage Products, choose uninstall from the dropdown Box
3 - Delete Posts from RSS-Bot ( Or delete Feed-Forum, if you have created one only for the Feeds )
4 - Update Forum,Thread Statistics

think thats it.

greets

Doozilla

12-28-2005, 06:44 AM

No one has solved the duplicates issue yet? Interesting. This hack has SOOO much potential!

NineToez

12-28-2005, 08:35 AM

Doozilla

12-28-2005, 02:03 PM

In my experience, the dupes are an issue of a feed itself, and not necessarily of this mod. I current run 4 RSS feeds with this mod and only one duplicates posts. The duplicates I just simply automatically prune away anyway so it's not really that big of a deal.

You are absolutely correct, and please pardon if I am stating the obvious here.

The hack reads the feed as often as you have it setup to, so if duplicate data is in the feed the hack is going to read it and import it. I wish it would differentiate between duplicates by checking for identical titles or something, that would be cool. I am going to see what's under the hood today and see if I can fix it.

DjTaz

12-28-2005, 02:19 PM

Im not getting duplicates - it gets 27 threads first time i do it - and then none after that unless i fully delete the rss feed and re-do another one ...anyone know the problem ?

Doozilla

12-28-2005, 04:28 PM

Im not getting duplicates - it gets 27 threads first time i do it - and then none after that unless i fully delete the rss feed and re-do another one ...anyone know the problem ?

Taz, it sounds ilke maybe you don't have the CRON setup?

DjTaz

12-28-2005, 04:35 PM

Nope - cron is set up and working.

Even if i refresh it manually it says 0 new rss feeds found, but there are new ones there. It seems like its not deleting the old ones and limits out on 27 new threads and wont get any more after that .. its a bit annoying really cause the system is brilliant if i get it working right.

Doozilla

12-28-2005, 04:57 PM

...the system is brilliant if i get it working right.

I definitely agree.

Skaterscafe.com

01-03-2006, 07:52 AM

Worked perfect on the first attempt.

2shae

01-03-2006, 06:18 PM

i got the mod running but i have the following problem,
http://feeds.feedburner.com/neowin-main add that rss it got it working but there needs to be an option to remove html, there is HUGE spaces where there should only be a small paragraph, the remove html bit should remove spans etc etc etc as it looks aful

unknowngiver

01-04-2006, 07:19 PM

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/index.xml" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/index.xml</a>
hey
this is the RSS but its not workin
can u help me wid it please

zerinS4

01-05-2006, 05:14 PM

I have this hack running successfully on my site, Dubspeed Racing. However, the format in which it outputs things is rediculous. Whats up with the extra white space in the formatting?

Example Thread Here:
http://www.dubspeedracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8055

And the feed its pulling from here:

http://www.speedsportlife.com/corvette-z06-to-pace-daytona-500-with-jay-leno-at-the-wheel/

And my RSS Post Construct:

Published: {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[content:encoded]}

Dubspeed Driven (http://speedsportlife.com)

Help!

ChurchMedia

01-07-2006, 09:04 AM

Cool hack! I'm having a small problem. When I add any text or code to the post section, it doesn't save any of the RSS settings. If I just use the XML code in the post it works fine. But I'd like to add some of my own text and code.

Any ideas? Thanks!!

IrPr

01-09-2006, 01:00 PM

what about this feed title ?

<title xml:lang="ar"> ???????????? /title>

xtreme-mobile

01-12-2006, 04:52 PM

ive used the older version of this has the problems with the double posting of feeds been fixed?

unknowngiver

01-16-2006, 03:45 PM

Anyone?
i cant get this rss to work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/index.xml

NineToez

01-25-2006, 05:39 PM

Had to reinstall this since I moved my hosting and I'm getting "Invalid URL to RSS Given" which worked just fine before but now it's not?!? Yes, I uploaded all the necessary files and imported the XML, however now I'm running 3.5.3 vs. 3.5.1 as before; did I forget to CHMOD a folder/file perhaps?

clubplanet

01-26-2006, 10:29 AM

I tried to uninstall the product but this is also not working.
The entry stays in the admincp.

How can I get rid of this hack?

Had to figure this out myself. Here is how:
1. Go to Scheduled Tasks -> Scheduled Task Manager and delete the cron entry for Inferno RSS
2. Go to Manage Products, choose uninstall from the dropdown Box
3. Delete these files:

admincp/ffrss.php
includes/xml/cpnav_ffrss.xml
includes/xml/help_ffrss.xml
includes/cron/cron_ffrss.php

thuffner

02-01-2006, 09:39 PM

How do you make the article bots' posts NOT count towards the board's total posts/threads?

Thanks! :)

BaconDelight

02-03-2006, 02:37 PM

This is mostly working, but I've noticed a couple things.

First, sometimes when I hit "edit" on a feed I've created, the RSS Settings revert back to a previously saved state, rather than showing whatever changes I made to them last time. I find myself having to go in a couple times and hitting "Save" to be sure it's actually updated.

Secondly, for some reason, when using this feed (http://www.pocketsymphony.com/mousepod/mousepod.xml), if I try to put {XLM[guid]} in my post construct, all I get is "array" instead of the contents of guid. Any ideas?

Jafo232

02-03-2006, 04:14 PM

Installed..

I recommend you lower the amount of time RSS feeds are crawled.. Every minute seems like overkill.. Set mine for every 15 minutes or it slows the forum down significantly, even with one feed.

GamerJunk.net

02-04-2006, 02:13 AM

How would I format this to look good....I'm feeding auctions from Ebay onto my site

<channel>
<title>fEEdBaY: Video Games : Accessories</title>
<link>http://rss.feedbay.net/getfeed.php?cid=49220</link>
<language>en-us</language>
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<description>

fEEdBaY.net: Delivering eBay category listings and custom search filters via RSS since 2006. Watch for our IPO!

</description>
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<item>
−
<title>
PSP 5 Enhance Replacement Analog Stick Sony Playstation
</title>
−
<link>
http://click.feedbay.net/go.php?u=%D6%7F%96%5C%8BT%9A%B6%A4%87%A5%C2%A4%92% 04%0A%E9%7E%A0%7D%E9%7ER%F7i+%9C%29%99l%D7%D0uA%DF %7F%C3t%07%1D%2FCX%24Z%A3%CFx%3C%2B1%9D%1D%7Bt%BB% E2+%D6%D7%03%2A%EEb%D0%2A%0FX%E3%1B%9Fu%AF%0DAV%1E %036%BC
</link>
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<description>
<IMG ALIGN="LEFT" SRC="http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/8255935608.jpg"/>
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<div valign="top">
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<table>
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<tr>
<td align="right">Auction #:</td>
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<td>
8255935608
</td>
<td align="right">Location:</td>
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<td>
United States
</td>
</tr>
−
<tr>
<td align="right">Current Price:</td>
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<td>
$0.10
</td>
<td align="right">Bids:</td>
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<td>
0
</td>
</tr>
−
<tr>
<td align="right">Started:</td>
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<td>
2006-02-04 04:10:00
</td>
<td align="right">Ends:</td>
−
<td>
2006-02-07 04:10:00
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</description>
</item>

Snatch

02-08-2006, 08:20 AM

try editing your "new posts" link in your navbar template

Add the &exclude=27 (change 27 to the forum id where your feeds are posted)

http://www.mysite.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=27

-b6

I had made this but it doesn?t work for me. It alway shows me the new threads and posts.
Another trick ?

GreeTz
Snatch

Tralala

02-10-2006, 03:14 PM

Sorry to say NxTek but I am not using RSS Feeds containing Video or Sound Files.

btw. this is not the meaning of RSS.
Its like using email for ftpying files :D

Sorry, I had to laugh at this.

I know it was said above, but your analogy is bad, and the entire premise is flawed.

RSS + sound = podcast.
RSS + video = video podcast

Ever heard of those? :surprised:

Tralala

02-10-2006, 03:25 PM

I had made this but it doesn?t work for me. It alway shows me the new threads and posts.
Another trick ?

GreeTz
Snatch

I've read you could turn off "Index New Posts in Search Engine" for the RSS forum, in Admin CP Forum Manager. This will prevent searches on that forum, so presumably will work? Not sure though.

You could also install this hack: Opt Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025) Works for me, and allows users to choose what they prefer on an individual basis, which I like. If you read the thread too, you'll see there's a way to set some forums to be "opted out" by default for everyone.

Hope this helps!

username12

02-14-2006, 06:37 AM

Yahoo works perfectly... until I click on one of the links and get "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded".