[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

[Zero Tolerance]

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin ;)

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below :)

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix:
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct: [b]Published: {XML[pubDate]}

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

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy :)

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[Snake]

First one to install, thankies! :D

[Zero Tolerance]

v2 Expected Features:
- Import/Export Forum Feeds
- Auto Detect RSS Settings (won't be 100% garentee'd to work, but should do 80% of the time)

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[jugo]

Very cool bro....

[Darth Gill]

wow!

[Boofo]

Where would we find more sources for this?

[XtremeOffroad]

Very Cool

[Zero Tolerance]

Where would we find more sources for this?

Google -> "[random item] rss feeds"

RSS is becomming bigger every day, so i should hardly think you'd have a problem finding an rss feed you'd want :)

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[jugo]

Any website that has RSS Feeds. 90% of News sites have them.

MSNBC
GAMESPOT

Just Google "RSS Feeds"

Also just about every single blogging site has RSS feeds

[Boofo]

Any website that has RSS Feeds. 90% of News sites have them.

MSNBC
GAMESPOT

Just Google "RSS Feeds"

Also just about every single blogging site has RSS feeds

Ahh, but I need a specialized one dealing with Fathers' Rights. ;)

[Zero Tolerance]

Ahh, but I need a specialized one dealing with Fathers' Rights. ;)

Well unfortunatly i don't provide the data, just the software to adapt it to your forum.

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[Boofo]

Well unfortunatly i don't provide the data, just the software to adapt it to your forum.

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I know that, sir, I wasn't exopectuing you to provide more than you already have. I was just hoping someone might be able to help me find something for this is all. No expectations, just a request. ;)

[Zero Tolerance]

I know that, sir, I wasn't exopectuing you to provide more than you already have. I was just hoping someone might be able to help me find something for this is all. No expectations, just a request. ;)

Lol, no need to call me Sir, you're like waaaay older than me anyway o_o

So i take it no problems so far? I've installed it onto my own forum with no problems anyway :)

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[TTG]

prefer this one (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67078&highlight=rss) to be converted for 3.5.0 .. more options !

[Zero Tolerance]

prefer this one (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67078&highlight=rss) to be converted for 3.5.0 .. more options !

I'm open for suggestions, i did look at the article bot, the only major difference i see here is the manual ability to construct the feed how you want, like which data will be used for threads, titles, and the post construct.

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[Boofo]

Lol, no need to call me Sir, you're like waaaay older than me anyway o_o

So i take it no problems so far? I've installed it onto my own forum with no problems anyway :)

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Well, I haven't installed it quite yet as I haven't found a feed for it. But knowing your coding abilities, I will definately be installing it as soon as I find a proper feed. You are an amazing coder, young man. Something to be very proud of. ;)

[Vizionz]

this is confusing to me but i added the info then update and got

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

yeah nevermind that it was an error with my ffeed info :P works perfect as usual Clicks install

[Lazarous]

Many many thanks for this!!! :)

Cheers! :D

[Guest190829]

This is an excellent hack!

/me clicks install!

[Chris M]

Very nice :)

Satan

[Azhrialilu]

very sweet.. as always!

[Blam Forumz]

Nice work ZT ^^

[Vizionz]

<a href="http://feedfinder.feedster.com/" target="_blank">http://feedfinder.feedster.com/</a> <---- might help for finding feeds

[Boofo]

http://feedfinder.feedster.com/ <---- might help for finding feeds

Great! Thank you, sir. ;)

Ok, I'vce never done this before. How do I go about getting the feed going for the link I found?

[Zero Tolerance]

Good resource, it finds sites and each result will have a button, which says "RSS", click that for the feed, if it's formatted like a normal website instead of code you'll have to view the source code to see how it's structured, from there on the help in the forum feeds control will help you set it up :)

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[Guest190829]

Theres a bug with the latest post on forumhome. Instead of showing the newest RSS feed on the latest post, it's showing the oldest RSS Feed.

Anyone else having this problem?

[Vizionz]

<a href="https://www.cnet.com/4520-6022-5115113.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnet.com/4520-6022-5115113.html</a> start reading thats where i am researching myself. i can just get headlines so far instead of full stories.

[Zero Tolerance]

Theres a bug with the latest post on forumhome. Instead of showing the newest RSS feed on the latest post, it's showing the oldest RSS Feed.

Anyone else having this problem?

That's because vBulletin uses a global variable for the time function (TIMENOW), the system adds all -new- feeds one by one, but keeps to the same time because of this.

If you want in the next version i can make it increase the last added time by 1 second, so the sort order should be correct :)

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[Boofo]

Ok, here's a link I came up with. Is this an RSS link then?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/frtc/data/atom/

And is it a one time shot or regular? Sorry to sound so ignornat on this, but this is my first time at this. So, please be gentle. ;)

[XtremeOffroad]

Ok, here's a link I came up with. Is this an RSS link then?



And is it a one time shot or regular? Sorry to sound so ignornat on this, but this is my first time at this. So, please be gentle. ;)

You'll want to look for the link ending with rss.xml and add that link along with the feed info into the rss feeds.

Look at the description at zero tolerance's Example BBC UK News Feed:

[Cyburbia]

I'll let you now how it works. I've been waiting forward to such an extension, checking every day to see is an RSS feed aggregator has arrived yet.

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

[bigcurt]

Sup ZT, I know you have to be busy man and I was looking for an alternative to Article bot and I believe I found it, but because of my board I do not have 3.X installed yet..so is there anyway you can do me ( and others ) a favor and port this over to 3.0.X??

~Curt

[Zero Tolerance]

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

Suggest that to vB, thats how they built the cp nav system to work, nothing i can do about it i'm afraid.

Sup ZT, I know you have to be busy man and I was looking for an alternative to Article bot and I believe I found it, but because of my board I do not have 3.X installed yet..so is there anyway you can do me ( and others ) a favor and port this over to 3.0.X??


~Curt

Unfortunatly i cannot do this bigcurt, i will be updating this when i get time, and it would just be a pain to update it for both versions really, and cause double the support/double the time.

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[Dream]

damn good thanks

would be nice if it parsed urls to [ url ] when posting, im getting big urls using the link inside the post

[Zero Tolerance]

damn good thanks

would be nice if it parsed urls to [ url ] when posting, im getting big urls using the link inside the post

I'll be including a str_replace/preg_replace replacement options per feed in v2, and also global replacements (some feeds use invalid chars/html) :)

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[Dream]

isnt that just a parsing option when posting a new message with the object? its nothing fancy just the standard behavior when posting a message

[john1744]

How do I set up the cron job? This is badass btw Zero. Mucho gracias. ^__^

[Darth Gill]

How do I set up the cron job? This is badass btw Zero. Mucho gracias. ^__^I have the same question. I tried setting it up, but I got a fatal error when I tried to run it.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

AWESOME!!

<< wants to install!! but also
doesn't know how to "add a cron job" :ermm:

can some tell me how? (sorry for the n00bifiedness)



Ahh, but I need a specialized one dealing with Fathers' Rights. ;)

here you go....
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&q=father%27s+rights&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

for reference......
just go to google news....search for what you want... the results themselves are an RSS feed (auto RSS detectors---like mathox has one built into the browswer itself) will generate the link you need (and/or there is a RSS link for the results page on the lower left. click that and copy the url). ;)

[john1744]

Ah, I think a cron job is just a scheduled task. At least it looks the exact same as his description.

[john1744]

Ok, I would highly recommend creating a subforum labeled news. I did that BBC feed, and it went nuts posting 30 Threads at once. LOL.

[john1744]

http://today.reuters.com/rss/topNews/

Would anyone be willing to dissect this for me, as in what is what for the Feed control? I have noticed two places I would like to use have this same format, but I can't figure it out.

Edit: Wow, this is really hard, I've tried about three times to figure it out. But I can't dissect the XML feed. :(

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok.... installed but not working :(

I keep getting this error:

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.

anyone else with this problem?


(I tried several source and I tried using the BBC example above with same result) :(

[john1744]

No the BBC link worked beautifully. My problem is, he used RSS 1.0 as an example, many sites use RSS 2.0 which is harder to decode IMO.

I want Gamespot, IGN and Reuters, but they all use RSS 2.0 which I have no idea what to do with.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

http://today.reuters.com/rss/topNews/

Would anyone be willing to dissect this for me, as in what is what for the Feed control? I have noticed two places I would like to use have this same format, but I can't figure it out.

Edit: Wow, this is really hard, I've tried about three times to figure it out. But I can't dissect the XML feed. :(


heh I think I know how....mine's just not working :( (help??!! :( :))
for yours it looks thesame as the bbc one...

Parent RSS Tag Name : channel
Items RSS Tag Name : item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name : title
Thread Post RSS Construct :

Published: {XML[pubDate]}

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

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

grr..uninstalled reinstalled...same results for all the feeds I try:

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.

HHHAAAALPPPPPPPPP!!!? :(

[yahoooh]

could u make the next release also available for 3.0.7?

[Guest190829]

This was working fine, but now it seems it wont save the RSS setting after I add a new feed. So when I click update, it saying that I left all the options empty.

EDIT: I add html which was the problem. >_< . Now everything works fine. v2 should def be a HOTM.

:up:

[john1744]

It's still working fine here...

[Vizionz]

i have had no problems at all and i know nothing about this if you read what he says its common sence install file tells you everything u need to install it and then the example above and google will give you any other answers..

the only real question i have is is it possible to get whole news stories or does rss only post brief descriptions so its like a headliner

[Darth Gill]

OK, so I set up the cron job exactly like the instructions told me to...

Add the following cron job:
Title: RSS Feeds Update
Day of the Week: *
Day of the Month: *
Hour: *
Minute: 1 - - -
Log Entries: Up to you
Filename: ./includes/cron/cron_ffrss.php

And I get a fatal error...

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/bkraft/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 4240

[Chris_D]

I just installed it for testing purposes and it works fine. Would be much better when it automatically detects the RSS settings though :)

Nice work still

[Cyburbia]

Great script - really. Unfortunately, my users HATE it. :disappointed: Why? Some have the "new posts" url bookmarked, and now they're seeing RSS feed posts mixed in there. I wonder if there's a way to set up a subforum where new posts, basically the RSS feeds, won't show up in the "new posts" search.

[sowen]

...

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

In the cpnav_ffrss.xml file change:
<navgroup text="RSS Forum Feeds" hr="true">
to:
<navgroup text="RSS Forum Feeds" displayorder="10" hr="true">
that should mve the option set down below the Vb Options

[Gizmo5h1t3]

deffo gotta be considered for HOTM this one....

[Darth Gill]

Did anyone get the cron job to work for them?

[XtremeOffroad]

Did anyone get the cron job to work for them?

I received the same error today when I set up the cron job, Any Ideas???

[john1744]

I set up a Scheduled Task (I assume this is a cron job in vB) and a cron job in my server. IGN and Cnet.com's RSS feeds work fine. However Gamespot, IMDB, Wired.com and Reuters keep showing no updates. I'm pretty sure they update their news frequently though...

[Zero Tolerance]

Okay common error, running a task in scheduled task manager returns an error, this is due to vBulletin software itself, it's the same for -any- cron job when run via the CP manually, look on vbulletin.com bug tracker for more info on that.

Vizionz, its all dependant really on how much information the feed contains, if the feed contains a whole story then you can extract that, if it doesn't, then i'm afraid not.

People getting errors with bbc rss feeds? Seems to work fine on mine with no problems, i'll do a little more research into it :)

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[Vizionz]

yeah people are ahead of the game. if you could grab all there news there would be no need for people to go to there websites.

[XtremeOffroad]

People getting errors with bbc rss feeds? Seems to work fine on mine with no problems, i'll do a little more research into it :)- Zero Tolerance

Thanks much Zero Tolerance, Your work here is very Impressive for such a Young Man and Greatly Appreciated.

[Zero Tolerance]

People love it when technology can save us the hard manual work...

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[john1744]

^ When will that be available Zero? (Thats awesome! BTW)

[Zero Tolerance]

That would be now, i thought i'd release it with that addition and a minor problem fix to help users who arn't sure what to do with the rss settings :)

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[XtremeOffroad]

I take it the zip file today has been updated?
Got the email, Sorry.

Updating now. Thanks

[Zero Tolerance]

Yep, re-download and read the upgrade instructions :)

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[XtremeOffroad]

Upgrade went smooth as allways.
Other then help with filling in the fields were there any other changes?

[Gryphon]

Edit: Hmm, Worked the second time I ran it for some reason. All good now.

Upgrade Error:
Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `vb3_rssfeed` (
`feed_id` int(15) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`feed_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_prefix` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_location` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_user` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`feed_forum` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`feed_parser` mediumtext NOT NULL,
`feed_lastadded` text NOT NULL,
`feed_direction` varchar(255) NOT NULL default 'newestfirst',
PRIMARY KEY (`feed_id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;;

MySQL Error : Table 'vb3_rssfeed' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Thursday, August 18th 2005 @ 03:23:23 PM

[Zero Tolerance]

Yeah the posting of threads had a slight change, the last post info for the forum was corrected, and an error message was fixed :)

@ The guy with a mySQL error - Strange, in the xml file for the products, change <code version="1.5"> to <code version="1.0">, should work then. :)

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[XtremeOffroad]

Edit: Hmm, Worked the second time for some reason.

Upgrade Error:
Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `vb3_rssfeed` (
`feed_id` int(15) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`feed_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_prefix` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_location` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`feed_user` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`feed_forum` int(15) NOT NULL default '0',
`feed_parser` mediumtext NOT NULL,
`feed_lastadded` text NOT NULL,
`feed_direction` varchar(255) NOT NULL default 'newestfirst',
PRIMARY KEY (`feed_id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;;

MySQL Error : Table 'vb3_rssfeed' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Thursday, August 18th 2005 @ 03:23:23 PM


I received the same error but on the second attempt on the xml upload it worked fine from what I see.

[Zero Tolerance]

Might be a bug with the vb products system, anyhow, i updated the zip so the install code was for v1.0, and not v1.5. Should still execute for new users installing fresh.

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[Gryphon]

It would be great if you could choose to skip the initial import and only have it add news from point of activation on.

Also, I noticed that it just keeps track of the last title added in the db. Currently I want to implement a feed that is not keep up chronologically. It is a list of most popular news items within the past 6 hours.

For example it may say:

News title 1
News title 2
News title 3
News title 4

Then six hours later:

News title 1
News title 5
News title 6
News title 3

What I would like it to do is post what is new between the last feed and the current feed whithout, of course, posting what has already been posted, if possible :ermm:

Quite a bit more complex but tossing out the request anyway :D

[Floris]

Karma++ for this resource, good job and I hope v2 is around the corner, can't wait.

Btw; bug fix (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs35.php?do=view&bugid=931) for manual cron in rc2


[edit]
By the way, what should I change so the assigned username that makes the newthreads also instant-email-subscribes to it?

[Zero Tolerance]

Karma++ for this resource, good job and I hope v2 is around the corner, can't wait.

Btw; bug fix (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs35.php?do=view&bugid=931) for manual cron in rc2


[edit]
By the way, what should I change so the assigned username that makes the newthreads also instant-email-subscribes to it?

It would require a lump of code being added into the includes/class_ffrss.php, however for v2 i can make it feed specific if you want, when adding/editing a feed you choose the desired subscription type for the user account posting the thread(s).

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[XtremeOffroad]

Everything seems fine except any forum where I have news posted come up as done but with errors on page and the drop down menu's wont work. All pages not associated with the news are ok, Any Ideas?
This is since the update.

This might be with vb itself since it applies to pages where there are more then one page of topics in any one forum.
I'll shoot this by vb.com.

Edit,It turns out the error is in the style I'm using.

Edit2: Problem solved. YAY
:nervous: :nervous:

[Floris]

It would require a lump of code being added into the includes/class_ffrss.php, however for v2 i can make it feed specific if you want, when adding/editing a feed you choose the desired subscription type for the user account posting the thread(s).

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Never mind in that case, I've made a new user who will make the posts. Seems to work just fine.

http://www.vbulletin-fans.com/showthread.php?t=10619
Just a few parsing things I'd like to see a stripper for :)
I still don't like turning on HTML in forums.

[XtremeOffroad]

Never mind in that case, I've made a new user who will make the posts. Seems to work just fine.

http://www.vbulletin-fans.com/showthread.php?t=10619
Just a few parsing things I'd like to see a stripper for :)
I still don't like turning on HTML in forums.

I like this Idea of creating a new member to act as the news poster, Mind if I ummm borrow it :squareeyed:
Why didnt I think of this.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

I am very very sad...

I still get this message for every feed I try (bbc example):

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

Please check settings related to this issue.

:( :(


anyone where to BEGIN looking for where this problem is coming from?

[Mr.D]

Instalated and working fine. I was waiting for this for a long time.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Instalated and working fine. I was waiting for this for a long time.


ARRRRGHH!!!!!! :(


even the auto detector gives me:
invalid url to rss feed given

[XtremeOffroad]

ARRRRGHH!!!!!! :(


even the auto detector gives me:

Do the url's your using end with rss.xml?

[ggiersdorf]

Can someone help me out here I can't seem to get the correct info in the boxes I have posted a few lines from the RSS feed I would like to use. Please help me.

<rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>360 on 360</title>
<link>http://www.360on360.com/index.cfm</link>
<description>The full 360 on the new XBOX 360 Console</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:22:16 -0700</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:28:00 -0700</lastBuildDate>
<generator>BlogCFC</generator>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<managingEditor>admin@360on360.com</managingEditor>
<webMaster>admin@360on360.com</webMaster>
- <item>
<title>Faceplates Q&A</title>
<link>http://www.360on360.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=CF28E126-C0CC-65D6-CFF5ECEFCFCBDC6F</link>
<description>A Q&amp;A regarding the faceplates is up at Xbox.com, with lots of answers on the availability and customization of faceplates for the Xbox 360. Q:&nbsp;I was wondering if attaching the faceplate changes the software skins on Xbox 360, or are they just like a phone's faceplates?A: Across the entire Xbox 360 system, hardware and software integration has been a big priority, which means that for every Xbox 360 faceplate at retail, there will be a matching skin you can download. But to add a bit of mystery, not all the themes match their faceplate in exactly the same way. View Full Q&amp;A Here</description>
<category>Hardware</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.360on360.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=CF28E126-C0CC-65D6-CFF5ECEFCFCBDC6F</guid>
</item>

what do I use for the settings?

Parent RSS Tag Name:
Items RSS Tag Name:
Thread Title RSS Tag Name:
Thread Post RSS Construct:

I want to Post the sotre, not worried about the date but the Topic, Story and Original link would be fine..

thanks in Advance..

[bigcurt]

Yea, I understand if you dont have time to port it :)..well, I am off to install article bot :p..thanks anyway and this is a great vB 3.5 hack..I installed it on my testboard so.


* bigcurt installs

[GenSec]

And how to decode RSS feeds encoding in other (non engl) language?

[Zero Tolerance]

@ GrendelKhan{TSU - Okay i just looked closer at your error: While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newson...nt_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

Note how i have made the whole URL bold to make it stand out, and furthermore, italic'd a section of it, that might point out what you have done wrong, if not then here's the problem: You have copied the url in my main post as text, instead of right clicking on the url and selecting Copy Shortcut, vbulletin strips the size of the url down by adding dots into the url ;)

@ ggiersdorf - Did you try the auto detect rss settings system?

@ GenSec - The next version will include the ability to replace characters to create your own parser globally and singularly for each feed.

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[Gizmo5h1t3]

got this one working a treat, running 6 bots in their own sections now...excellent work m8

[GenSec]

@ GenSec - The next version will include the ability to replace characters to create your own parser globally and singularly for each feed.

- Zero ToleranceGreat news! Will be waiting....

[wattieuk]

I get this error when I run the script:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in forum/includes/functions.php on line 4240

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

@ GrendelKhan{TSU - Okay i just looked closer at your error:

Note how i have made the whole URL bold to make it stand out, and furthermore, italic'd a section of it, that might point out what you have done wrong, if not then here's the problem: You have copied the url in my main post as text, instead of right clicking on the url and selecting Copy Shortcut, vbulletin strips the size of the url down by adding dots into the url ;)

man, I sooo wish that was it. I did copy the full url (and just tried again...just in case) AND tried about about 10 different feeds and all of them give me the same.

eg: this is the full url right?
htt p:// news rss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml ?
(spaces add to prevent linking)
or this:

ht tp://n ews.nationalgeographic.com/index.rss


Something is causing the problem....and at this point I'm thinking it may not be the plugin (maybe a conflict with another hack??)

I was lookign forward to this one too...and your hacks all rule and you are pumping them out...so I can't really complain....

but its just frustrating . :( dunno where to start to solve this.


@ GenSec - The next version will include the ability to replace characters to create your own parser globally and singularly for each feed.

- Zero Tolerance

grrr...this makes me want it to work even more!! :(

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

man...ok... I went and uninstalled and installed again...with all my plugins disabled.

same error.

then went and disabled every product one by one...checking each time.....

same error.



this is making me wnaa through my monitor out the window. grr. sorry....just venting.

I tried this rss http://animal.discovery.com/news/news.rss
and the full url of the bbc one.


any other thoughts?

[hobbes747]

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

Is there anyway to limit how many articles it gets from a feed? Or how often it updates per feed? Would it need a cron for each feed? Like, CNN updates regularly but Wired not so much. I'm getting duplicate threads.

Also, it has some issue with getting a feed from Slashdot due to their formatting. Is there a way to set it up to accept it? http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

Is there anyway this could be hacked to post to a specific thread? Like say I had a weather thread and just wanted the feed to post at the end of it?

What about specifying the thread icon for each feed?

[Kirk Y]

This is just what I was looking for... God I love youe Zero.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

man I am sooo jealous...everyone's seems to be working but mine. :( :(

[Gizmo5h1t3]

upgraded, works a treat like it always has done.
only thing is, its working a little TOO good.

as some of the feeds im grabbing arent updated as much as some of the others, im now getting shed loads of duplicates all over my board...

is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???

[monstergamer]

man I am sooo jealous...everyone's seems to be working but mine.
mine works...is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???
i would like this as well

[Kirk Y]

When I select Run Now in the Scheduled Tasks for RSS Feeds Update, I get this error:

RSS Feeds Update

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/socom/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 4240

Edit: Also... I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but a lot of times the feeds posted have html in them... I'd like the html displayed properly, but I don't want to turn HTML on in the Forum for all members to use. Is there anyway the HTML can be allowed only for Administrators, as I've set my Username as the one that's posting the RSS Feeds?

[Dream]

tried changing

$newpost['message'] = $message;

for

$newpost['message'] = convert_url_to_bbcode($message);

in class_ffrss.php with no luck :(

[Dream]

added

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_newpost.php');

after

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_databuild.php');

and now the links inside the news posts are automatically parsed ^_^

[Gizmo5h1t3]

im being over run by duplicate threads!!!!!

[rinkrat]

Mine's working great! I just put url tags around the story link in the setup.

[nuclei]

upgraded, works a treat like it always has done.
only thing is, its working a little TOO good.

as some of the feeds im grabbing arent updated as much as some of the others, im now getting shed loads of duplicates all over my board...

is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???

i would suggest having it store all news entries in a seperate mysql table with a unique key on the title. that would keep you from getting all the dupes.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

i would suggest having it store all news entries in a seperate mysql table with a unique key on the title. that would keep you from getting all the dupes.

that sounds convincing..unfortunatley u might as well ask me to perform brain surgery mate...i have no idea what that means..lmao

[nuclei]

it was more an idea for Zero Tolerance to integrate into the next update maybe :)

[Dream]

im being over run by duplicate threads!!!!!

me too, thought the RSS was coming with duplicate entries

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

:(

anyone have any clue where to start tracking down this error?

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.



And I POSITIVE its not the feed. I've tried it many feeds, the one posted here and with the auto detect. :(

[xug]

The Dupe is a huge problem, everything working fine finally, like the scheduled task i finally got it working late last night and this morning I see a quadruple amount of dupes.

Please solve this asap, maybe the above suggestion is not that bad at all to put a unique key in a table ;)

Please help us as soon as possible.

Still Thumbs up to this hack.

[FASherman]

Some feeds insert HTML into their feeds, things such as images and the like.

Can we have an option to strip html from a feed?

[Dream]

Id like to see this support atom feeds :P

[rinkrat]

I love the html in the feeds, I'm getting pictures and everything.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

any update on the "dupe" problem???

[FASherman]

I love the html in the feeds, I'm getting pictures and everything.
But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

[monkeyhead]

*fixed*

[FASherman]

Another suggestion...

I'd like to be able to limit the number of posts, regardless of how many feed items are new.

For instance, even if 15 items are new, I only want to post the 3 newest.

[xug]

But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

correct.

Any luck Zero with the Dupe problem.

[berberber]

what would be the parent tag for : http://www.afp.com/francais/rss/stories.xml

[Kirk Y]

But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

I feel your pain, I just put set my Blogs to be posted in a special forum that allowed HTML, but disallowed the capability of user posts.

[berberber]

Currently because of the dupe problem, i execute the script from time to time my self, so i can control the output, and the double posts, would be nice, if it was improved, but ok so too.

Thanks for the mod

[Bobby S]

I love this work. Thank you

The only minor problem I have is that

http://news.google.co.uk/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=hibs+OR+hibernian&output=rss isnae recognised as valid rss. I'm sure I'll work it out given time.

[KingSpade]

When I select Run Now in the Scheduled Tasks for RSS Feeds Update, I get this error:

RSS Feeds Update

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/socom/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 4240

Edit: Also... I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but a lot of times the feeds posted have html in them... I'd like the html displayed properly, but I don't want to turn HTML on in the Forum for all members to use. Is there anyway the HTML can be allowed only for Administrators, as I've set my Username as the one that's posting the RSS Feeds?


Same problem here, any idea how to fix this?

[peterska2]

/me clicks install.

very nicely done. works a treat.

[Pete]

/me clicks install.

Anyone know of a way to schedule the removal of duplicate threads/posts?
(AdminCP->Maintenance->Update Counters)
I'd like to schedule this to run right after the feed update, only in that forum if possible (to keep load minimal). Tried to schedule "./admincp/misc.php?do=removedupe&startat=8000", but it laughed at me. This would probably be a bad idea for high traffic sites, but mine is just a little gathering place for friends.

The "dupe problem" appears to be more a problem with feeds, versus this addon. If an RSS file isn't updated, no new posts are made... But if one new item is added to the RSS file, all other old items will be posted along with the new one.

Dictionary.com's "Word of The Day" is a fun feed to encourage posting, get people to use the word in a sentence & enlarge their brains. I've been creating Word of The Day threads by hand for years, very happy this came along. Thanks a million.

[interfx]

Is the duplicate issue fixed now? Want to make sure before I install this mod...

InterFX

[FASherman]

Is the duplicate issue fixed now? Want to make sure before I install this mod...

InterFX
No, its not. And the issue of not stripping HTML before posting into non-HTML enabled threads also remains.

[RetroDreams]

Man, I want to install this in the worst way but the dupe thing is keeping me from doing so.

[yessir]

Man, I want to install this in the worst way but the dupe thing is keeping me from doing so.

I don't think it is supported at all anymore...

[Kirk Y]

It's never been supported, I don't think Zero supports many of his hacks.

[trancetopia]

:(

anyone have any clue where to start tracking down this error?

Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

And I POSITIVE its not the feed. I've tried it many feeds, the one posted here and with the auto detect. :(

I've got this error too and there hasn't been any help for GrendelKhan so maybe there is no fix for this.

I know having access to fopen was needed in some other 3.0.x hacks but fopen is not used in this plugin.

Anyone know a solution for this yet?

[Jenta]

added

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_newpost.php');

after

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_databuild.php');

and now the links inside the news posts are automatically parsed ^_^

tried it and didnt work for me :(

[Vizionz]

It's never been supported, I don't think Zero supports many of his hacks.
you got to remember the kid is 17 and runs his own company so being a kid and having to update stuff that he has paying clients is his main priorites. when you isntall hacks here there is no guarentee that anyone will ever return to upgrade or help you with the hack. its on you once you install it

when he has time and goes over this stuff i am sure he will fix the problems that arize. but some of you dont understand that he has alot of hacks here already. he isnt vbulletin staff so he is in no way obligated to sit and constantly watch to see if someone cant use his hack. this is why this is a community your suppose to examine the hacks and learn from them. so you can help the community as well. this isnt the freemarket and everyone is constantly gonna walk you around by your hand on every little install . the hackers do this for fun and offer there hacks. none of them have to or need too offer any of this.

so when you see a problem post it and then wait maybe someone else can help ya or maybe when the creator has time he will help you.

but always keep in mind they have lifes too and other projects to run so when they dont jump to fix your problems dont make it out like they dont care

zt is constantly giving back to this community for nothing and i for one have all his hacks installed and i dont know if i am gifted or lucky but i dont run into any of these problems you people seem to be ?

maybe it could be many isssues when your throwing a whole bucnh of different hacks on one forum. and maybe just maybe this is all test hacks anyway so of course there are gonna be bugs in both the hacks and the actual system. so untill this stuff goes gold your trying these hacks at your own risk...

[FASherman]

I think the real problem is the way VB.Org manages hacks. If I were to take this code, find the problem and re-release it, I'd get jumped all over, asking if I received permission.

What we have is a buggy hack that has been orphaned. The author hasn't been around to fix it and hasn't shown any signs of doing so, age or any other personal issue not withstanding. The hack clearly indicates that it isn't supported, so there is no reasonable expectation that anything ever will get fixed.

There should be a way for someone interested in fixing and supporting a hack to take it over. A released hack filled with bug and logic errors with no support isn't a hack at all.

[Dream]

tried it and didnt work for me :(

you gotta make both changes from both posts I made jenta

[Vizionz]

I think the real problem is the way VB.Org manages hacks. If I were to take this code, find the problem and re-release it, I'd get jumped all over, asking if I received permission.

What we have is a buggy hack that has been orphaned. The author hasn't been around to fix it and hasn't shown any signs of doing so, age or any other personal issue not withstanding. The hack clearly indicates that it isn't supported, so there is no reasonable expectation that anything ever will get fixed.

There should be a way for someone interested in fixing and supporting a hack to take it over. A released hack filled with bug and logic errors with no support isn't a hack at all.
all u have to do is contact a hacker and ask if you can help the real problem with rereleasing hacks is that people tend to take full credit for the hack.

and there is no need to rerelease the code you can attach your fixes already to the post. or add the coding necessary to fix the problem.

then when the hacker notices the additions he will accknowledge your help ya know

[SEbasic]

(I think this is the right place to post this)

Sorry for reviving this old thread...

I've been getting my head around this Mod over the last few hours, and at one point actually had it working well.

The only problem I initially, is that the DB Table wasn't created automatically, so I did it by hand (Not really a big deal, but clearly not how it's supposed to work).

After a few hours of playing around with it, I managed to succesfully syndicate my first 10 posts, and the results were good, but needed tweaking...

So I edited the way the feed was presented and was happy that it would look the way I wanted.

Now, I'm in the situation that the actual RSS settings don't seem to be logged by vB...

I can go into the DB and see the records there, but for whatever reason when I go into the admincp and attempt to manually update the feed or edit the settings, all the work I've done is no longer there.

It's a really weird one, because like I say, I can see the entries in the DB, they just don't seem to be recognised in the vB back end.

Have you got any idea why this might be?

As a side note, many of the titles have got HTML formatting in them, which output, completly unparsed in the post title after the feed is syndicated (I have HTML switched on in these categories).

Again, sorry for dragging up the old(ish) thread, but I would *love* to have this working, as I've been looking for something like this for a while...

Cheers, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Oliver

(added)
Just for the record, this is the error message I recieve when I try to update the feed.

While attempting to parse the document located at "FEED URL HERE" the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified ()

Please check settings related to this issue.

[thetoolman]

Hi

I'm having a problem with the construct box field.. when i enter a link so it links to the whole story page on the original news site, it deletes all the settings after i submit. This is what i'm using:

<b>{XML[title]}</b>

{XML[description]}
<b>Date: {XML[pubDate]}</b>

<a href="{XML[link]}">Read Entire Article</a>

How am i supposed to link to the site?
any ideas?

[thetoolman]

anyone? it works by using just {XML[link]} but not in a link tag.

[thetoolman]

not to worry, i've worked it out.

[Carl Anderson]

@Dream Thanks this did get it to parse my urls - worked like a charm.. I put both of your messages together below.. Make it easier to follow ...


Edit: class_ffrss.php

Find and replace

PHP Code:
$newpost['message'] = $message;


To

PHP Code:
$newpost['message'] = convert_url_to_bbcode($message);


added

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_newpost.php');

after

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_databuild.php');


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...

[hardgainer]

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...

Can you clarify this just a little more please?

Do you modify the NavBar template for this or an actual file?

Thanks,

[trancetopia]

Has anyone managed to fix the "Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given" issue yet?

The URLs are correct, it's not accepting anything when manually adding feeds or using the autodetect function.

Are there some prequisits that I need to enable on my server before this can work?

[yitzklein]

I need help? I'm getting duplicate threads.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

I need help? I'm getting duplicate threads.

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

[yitzklein]

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat
Is this problem only with version 3.5, or the same problem was with the earlier version.

[trancetopia]

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

I have to dissagree there. It will not accept any url I try. Getting this to work is on the back burner for me now but I would like to find out what is causing the error.

The dupe issue shouldn't be a problem to fix but I can't get to the stage where I can test the import and haven't trawled through the code for being lazy and hoping someone had a quick answer. Maybe not.

I think it's now time for me to write my own rss reader as my first hack for vB. I feel a project coming on :)

[thetoolman]

hi,
i am having trouble.. it news articles are not posting themselves. instead i have to click on update feed manually for them to update. is there anyway i can fix this?

[MRGTB]

is there a version of this hack for vB3.0.8 or the 3 series?

[Kirk Y]

Has anyone figured a way to parse all the html into bbcode?

[Vierie]

I don't suppose, there is a way to insert rdf feeds with that?

[peterska2]

is there a version of this hack for vB3.0.8 or the 3 series?

The most popular one for the 3.0.x is Cinq's vBArticles (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=74189&highlight=RSS)

[Carl Anderson]

Can you clarify this just a little more please?

Do you modify the NavBar template for this or an actual file?

Thanks,

Yes you can modify the navbar template....

I also found a hack that seem to do this for you - I would perfer to change my navbar though... here is the hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025

[skizzy203]

fixed... i goofed.

sorry

[Vierie]

hi,
i am having trouble.. it news articles are not posting themselves. instead i have to click on update feed manually for them to update. is there anyway i can fix this?

Same problem here.

If somebody had an idea how to resolve the problem with the special characters I would be grateful. Never realized how many of them are in a normale article. :ermm:

[jribz]

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treatI'm not getting any duplicate threads actually.... the one thing I did notice was that if I use a rss feed from say Yahoo, it will dup, but currently I am only using RSS feeds from my sites to headline news posts, seems to work fine on this end.

Not sure why items from some rss feeds duplicate, unless their feed somehow shows an older news item as a different story altogether. I have looked at the feeds that did dup on me, and couldn't figure anything out.

The only time it will dup for the feeds I use, is if we edit the article on the main site, thus updating the feed, so it would make sense that the script thinks it's a new item.

I haven't looked at the code for this, but perhaps adding a check to compare the title against news already posted would resolve the dup issue, if it's not already in there.

[trilljester]

Awesome mod, thanks! I had a similar hack installed on my Invision board, and now I've got it back!

Question: Some feeds include HTML, and by default, I've turned off all HTML on all boards. Is there a way to have my poster account use HTML in posts, but not allow it for anyone else?

[ajpritch]

I am having issues setting up my rss feed. Here is the link to the Rss feed http://www.ohiofirenews.com/rss/ofnrss_incidents.php I am not sure what I need to fill in so it will post right

[ajpritch]

Never mind I see that it is built into the software.

[MRGTB]

Same problem here.

If somebody had an idea how to resolve the problem with the special characters I would be grateful. Never realized how many of them are in a normale article. :ermm:

Just crossed my mind, I think you might have a problem with special charaters because there HTML characters and you don't have HTML enabled on the board your bots are posting into. Not sure, but that could be your problem!

I've noticed the "&b" space command causes problems and thats html

[Kirk Y]

I get the same deal... but when I go to the actual Blog, they're there too... so I figured it's their problem. Oh and someone just released a plug that allows Usergroups the ability to use HTML. I changed it around to allow Usernames, so I just give my bot the ability to post HTML, so now people can reply to the articles without you worrying about them using HTML.

[MRGTB]

I have an older version of this hack installed and don't have HTML enabled, and the posts seem to be displayed fine were I grab RSS XML news from.

[c0d3x]

i have the same problem of some people here... i have the same feeds posted again and again

[MRGTB]

Sounds like it not checking for the feeds already being there, that's bad!

The earlier version I have installed for vbulletin 3.8 works fine and doesn't suffer from that problem. Well not so far!

[Gizmo5h1t3]

so, we have now established that the dupe posts are a problem...now can we mebbe establish if the author is gonna suppoort this, and if theres a workaround?

[Kirk Y]

If you scroll to the very top, you'll see that this hack is Unsupported. As I said earlier in this thread, I don't believe Zero supports any of his hacks.

[c0d3x]

so why release them? just don't release them if they're gonna not work...

i think that zero maybe is busy right now and can't give us support ;)

[MRGTB]

so why release them? just don't release them if they're gonna not work...

i think that zero maybe is busy right now and can't give us support ;)

Zero is a great mod creator, one of the best around for vb. But I would agree with you. If your gonna release stuff, at least supply support for a little while. If it had of been an old hack I would expect no suport, but it's not an old hack.

[Kirk Y]

This hack works perfectly for me: no duplicate threads, no funky characters (in addition to the ones already present on the actual blog), and no problems with HTML.

Don't diss the author just because you couldn't get the hack to work. I didn't say that Zero was a bad person for not supporting his hacks, only that he does just that, not support his hacks.

[NuclioN]

It's an amazing hack, good job. Altough not supported i've a question. Is it possible to have a rss feed from an atom xml ?

[MRGTB]

This hack works perfectly for me: no duplicate threads, no funky characters (in addition to the ones already present on the actual blog), and no problems with HTML.

Don't diss the author just because you couldn't get the hack to work. I didn't say that Zero was a bad person for not supporting his hacks, only that he does just that, not support his hacks.

If that's a reply to me, I'm not dishing the author. I have installed many of Zero's hacks and use his Welcome Panel now. I supose if people complain about the suport, like you said it is advertised before they install it. That support is not there as backup.

[Kirk Y]

I was mainly talking to c0d3x. He asked what the point was in distributing a hack that didn't work with no support.

[Moya]

I install and set up everything but it doesn't do anything on my board. It doesn't pull in any news even though I run the cron job manually.

[NuclioN]

Great script - really. Unfortunately, my users HATE it. :disappointed: Why? Some have the "new posts" url bookmarked, and now they're seeing RSS feed posts mixed in there. I wonder if there's a way to set up a subforum where new posts, basically the RSS feeds, won't show up in the "new posts" search.
Same here. Is there a way to get the output out of the new post search?

[csidlernet]

cool i'm gonna play around with it

[Kirk Y]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025</a>

Opt out whichever forum you're posting the feeds into.

[NuclioN]

Thank you acidburn :) Very usefull!

[Kirk Y]

Yup, anytime.

[subnet_rx]

this is confusing to me but i added the info then update and got

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

yeah nevermind that it was an error with my ffeed info :P works perfect as usual Clicks install

What causes this, I'm getting the same error.

[dieselpowered]

What causes this, I'm getting the same error.

Hey man I got that same error as well...I wonder if it has anything to do with vb 3.5 since this is shown working with a previous RC version??

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

[Vizionz]

its a feed error it pretty much means your calling something in the feed that isnt there

[dieselpowered]

its a feed error it pretty much means your calling something in the feed that isnt there

Ummm ok what does that mean?

How can I find out what it is?

[dieselpowered]

Ok I just tried another feed from my other vBulletin board and I am still getting 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

[Vizionz]

means when your setting up the feed you have to make sure when your calling the feed that it actually has the fields your trying to recieve.

post what your putting in as a rss feed including the link to the feed

[dieselpowered]

means when your setting up the feed you have to make sure when your calling the feed that it actually has the fields your trying to recieve.

post what your putting in as a rss feed including the link to the feed

Feed Name: Weapon Depot
Feed Location / URL: http://www.weapondepot.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2
Feed Thread Title Prefix: [WD]
Feed From User: bob1
Feed Forum: #3
Feed Read Direction: Newest First

Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

{XML[title]}

{XML[description]}

}]Read Entire Story ({XML[link)

Not sure what I could be missing?? Thanks for the help!

[Vizionz]

i dont think u can get php feeds like that i think its only calling actual xml feeds

[Vizionz]

but i havent tried the rss feeds till now on the gold version and i am getting the same error as well so it might be something wrong with the hack

[dieselpowered]

Has anyone figured a way to parse all the html into bbcode?

Right Here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=777990&postcount=137)

[dieselpowered]

but i havent tried the rss feeds till now on the gold version and i am getting the same error as well so it might be something wrong with the hack

Ya I have tried a ton of different feeds, none of them will update. I think some things changed in Gold and this hacks does not work with it.

[Vizionz]

well its showing a feed i tried. but i still get that error so definetly something wrong with the hack but it will update feeds if you ad them

[dieselpowered]

well its showing a feed i tried. but i still get that error so definetly something wrong with the hack but it will update feeds if you ad them

Ya it is only update one feed...and that is with me manually hitting the update button, although it errors, it does post one feed??

Time to hit **uninstall** :(

[subnet_rx]

Ya it is only update one feed...and that is with me manually hitting the update button, although it errors, it does post one feed??

Time to hit **uninstall** :(

hmm, hope it gets fixed.

[Floris]

I've upgraded the forum to 3.5.0 gold, and now the news forum is getting bombarded with nothing but duplicates. My guess is some little things changed in 3.5 gold and the plugin might need to adapt . Hopefully it is something easy ;) Until I figure it out (or someone else) I have disabled the plugin.

[dieselpowered]

I've upgraded the forum to 3.5.0 gold, and now the news forum is getting bombarded with nothing but duplicates. My guess is some little things changed in 3.5 gold and the plugin might need to adapt . Hopefully it is something easy ;) Until I figure it out (or someone else) I have disabled the plugin.

Least you are getting feeds...I have to manually run the script to get them and it errors out, but post one thread.

I have uninstalled until it is figured out as well.

[Dream]

I've upgraded the forum to 3.5.0 gold, and now the news forum is getting bombarded with nothing but duplicates. My guess is some little things changed in 3.5 gold and the plugin might need to adapt . Hopefully it is something easy ;) Until I figure it out (or someone else) I have disabled the plugin.

that happened with me before gold, and some other people have reported it

this wont work with atom feeds too, no matter what parameters you use ^_^ (google blog only uses atom)

[Kirk Y]

Right Here

That only parses URLs into BBCode. I no longer need this now that I'm using a Plugin to parse a specific user's posts.

Ya I have tried a ton of different feeds, none of them will update. I think some things changed in Gold and this hacks does not work with it.

I'm using 3.5.0 Gold and the hack is working fine. There are no duplicate threads and no PHP/SQL errors. From my standpoint, nothing has changed from RC2/3 to Gold that will adversely affect this hack's functionality.

@Xtreme: RSS/XML feeds must be direct. They cannot be dynamic URLs.

Good: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feed.xml
Bad: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feedpuller.php?rss=feed.xml

[jribz]

I haven't updated from RC3 to Gold yet, but for those of you having the duplicate posts error...

Run the feed manually by clicking update feed, then delete any posts that were a duplicate, then run it again to see if there are more duplicates.

This solved my dup problem on RC3 believe it or not, after running it twice the cron runs never duped for me.

~ just a thought ~ :ermm:

[dieselpowered]

That only parses URLs into BBCode. I no longer need this now that I'm using a Plugin to parse a specific user's posts.



I'm using 3.5.0 Gold and the hack is working fine. There are no duplicate threads and no PHP/SQL errors. From my standpoint, nothing has changed from RC2/3 to Gold that will adversely affect this hack's functionality.

@Xtreme: RSS/XML feeds must be direct. They cannot be dynamic URLs.

Good: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feed.xml
Bad: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feedpuller.php?rss=feed.xml

Well I used a test feed from yahoo:

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Does not work??

Used a test feed from msn:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/jpsdivings-page/feed.rss

Does not work??

What plugin did you use for the html?

[dieselpowered]

I just used the exact example he has at the top...still the same 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

[Vizionz]

Well I used a test feed from yahoo:

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Does not work??

Used a test feed from msn:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/jpsdivings-page/feed.rss

Does not work??

What plugin did you use for the html?
it has to be xml at the end

[Kirk Y]

No, .rss should also work.

The Plugin For Allowed Usergroup HTML:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926

Try this for a Feed and see if the error still shows: http://socomblog.typepad.com/socom/rss.xml

[Vizionz]

same error

[Vierie]

My Cronjob doesn't seem to be working. I always have to update manually. Can anybody tell me why or how I can change that?

[thetoolman]

ok i have just upgrade vb to 3.5 gold and now when i add a rss feed and click update feed, 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

the old one works fine though.

any ideas?

[Vizionz]

maybe you should of read the thread :(

[jugo]

Is there a way to create a post with a digest...like a bunch of headlines in one post as opposed to a whole bunch of posts from one feed.

[Kirk Y]

Would require changing the plugin code... and I dunno Visionz, it works for me. It'd be nice if Zero would support this hack.

[lylah]

ok i have just upgrade vb to 3.5 gold and now when i add a rss feed and click update feed, 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

the old one works fine though.

any ideas?


my case is just like urs

please help Us :ermm:

[dieselpowered]

It is very simple...this hack does not work on 3.5 Gold

[KidneyBoy]

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.


I'm running into the exact same problem. In fact, I ran into a similar problem using phpBB and their "FIND" system on "DreamHost". The funny thing is, I help out on another site running phpBB on "Powweb" and it works like a champ. So I decided to do some investigating, and it turns out that "DreamHost" has disabled the "allow_url_fopen" functions in PHP. They say it's a security risk, and several RSS fetching programs would be affected. Furthermore, they are predicting that most host providers will disable this function as well. Apparently there is some way to use cURL to get around this, but I'm *TOTALLY* clueless when it comes to PHP. I have NO idea how to implement this, as to make this code work.

So I'm really hoping somebody is willing to pick up this project, and can design a workaround using cURL as a fall-back (or something to that effect). Not to mention troubleshooting the other problems some of you are running into now that you are GOLD. Until then, I'll just keep an eye on here and cross my fingers.

Take it easy
KidneyBoy

[thetoolman]

is there an alternative rss script?

[ecarabin]

It's working on my Gold version very well...

[Snakey]

my case is just like urs

please help Us :ermm:

Same error

[TheMusicMan]

Well, I added this Plug-in on vB 3.5 Gold with the example RSS settings from the BBC and it works a treat.

I'm off to find relevant feeds for my forum... what a corking way to get content. Superb, thanks

[Gizmo5h1t3]

It is very simple...this hack does not work on 3.5 Gold


really?

then mine working fine must be a miracle of modern science!!

(apart from the dupes), but thats not version specific

[Kirk Y]

It works on 3.5.0... just not for you and some other people. Because it works fine on mine and apparently on Gizmo's.

[thedvs]

getting the same on my 3.5.0g

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

[Carl Anderson]

getting the same on my 3.5.0g

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


I get the same here....

[subnet_rx]

I get the same here....

I get the same thing. It's obviously a combination of a configuration setting and the 3.5 Gold upgrade that is doing it.

[adb22791]

So this is basically the same as Article Bot, exept without all the features..?

[Dream]

same error here, had to disable the scheduled task

[interfx]

So does this hack

- Work on VB3.5.0
- Fixed Duplicate Issues???

Thanks, still looking for a robust solution...

InterFX

[Kirk Y]

On some boards, yes. On others, no...

[jluerken]

When I click on UPDATE FEED I get 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

[Kirk Y]

You and every other person that's posted in this thread... almost, anyway.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

You and every other person that's posted in this thread... almost, anyway.

after reading that, i tested mine again...

working fine on 3.5 gold

[ManagerJosh]

When I click on UPDATE FEED I get 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


Having this problem as well.

[hobbes747]

Me too. :cry: After my upgrade to Gold.

It's happening to feeds that have updates. The empty ones are fine.

Edit: It gives me an error, but it still posts the thread.

[jluerken]

Having this problem as well.

I have this and some rss feeds are posted several times.
I have one message in my board now nine times :D

I think this version has to much bugs to be used....

[berberber]

Just dont use it with cron jobs, just manually from time to time, its already good help

Bernhard

[offline]

I am having the same problem, even manually. Is there another mod that will do the same thing or a fix on the way?

Thanks!!

[Sanjiyan]

Does this support rdf feeds? I used to use Articlebot but now I have upgraded to 3.5 vB and now it wont work, so I thought I would try this.

But I cant get any settings when I point it to the RDF/RSS feed.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/feed/rdfdevblog.asp

[trilljester]

It works on 3.5.0... just not for you and some other people. Because it works fine on mine and apparently on Gizmo's.


Well, it works on mine for 1 of my feeds, but fails on another, where on RC3, both of them worked fine. Something has changed enough in 3.5 Gold that causes problems. The error message is WAY too ambigious to tell us what the problem is.

The main difference between my feeds, is that one of them is has some ?'s and &'s in the URL, and the other one is a straight URL to the .xml file. I doubt that this would be the cause of the problem, but you never know.

[Kirk Y]

Yeah that would. As I said in an earlier post, this hack won't support dynamic URLs. It's gotta be a straight-forward .xml or .rss feed, not .php?feed=xml.

[trilljester]

Interesting, as the dynamic URLs worked fine for me in 3.5RC3, but are now broken in 3.5 Gold.

[ManagerJosh]

Interesting, as the dynamic URLs worked fine for me in 3.5RC3, but are now broken in 3.5 Gold.

This is just broken overall.

I was testing out the feed using http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/news.xml

That is NOT a dynamic URL.

[jluerken]

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?

[Kirk Y]

This is just broken overall.

I was testing out the feed using http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/news.xml

That is NOT a dynamic URL.

Don't recall saying it was.

[ManagerJosh]

Don't recall saying it was.

Sorry...quoting people is enabled by default for me...wasn't directed at you :)

[subnet_rx]

Anyone know what this error means on update (not cron 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

[Vizionz]

damn do any of you read before you post ? everyo0ne is gettig the same error u are well almost everyone yet u install it :(

[Evil X]

I want a sports rss feed.. I cant figure out what to put into which box, even with the help example... could someone give me the stuff to put in, so I can have a sports feed going to my sports forum... thanks

[ManagerJosh]

I want a sports rss feed.. I cant figure out what to put into which box, even with the help example... could someone give me the stuff to put in, so I can have a sports feed going to my sports forum... thanks

How about getting this hack to WORK first before we give you news feeds

[Evil X]

oh it doesnt even work?>... why is it there for download then..

[Vizionz]

^ i would have to side with you on that as well

[popowich]

this is confusing to me but i added the info then update and got
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
yeah nevermind that it was an error with my ffeed info :P works perfect as usual Clicks install

Hello,

What kind of problem causes the error above?
I am getting the same error from my first feed.

Also, does this plugin have a history?
I would like to avoid duplicate thread postings.
(I had major troubles with 3.0.x and the "Article Bot")

Here is the first RSS I'm trying to use with this plugin and vb3.5

http://www.pokergazette.com/trak/fclick.php?fid=rss
[
{XML[title]}

{XML[description]}

{XML[link]Read more... (this is wrapped by URL tags... can't post that for some reason...)

Thank you,

-Raymond @ WNYPoker.com

(You can see my feed posts in the Poker Articles and News forum)

[imported_-Sidekick-]

Is it possible to make it so the Thread Post RSS Construct allows HTML?

[subnet_rx]

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.

[NxTek]

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

[popowich]

Great, thank worked, thanks!

Hopefully there is a history and it won't post another 80 threads in 15mins.

BTW, my time for all those threads is stuck at updated 1 minute ago.

Is that becuase there were too many for my forums to process correctly / fast enough?

-Raymond

[subnet_rx]

Great, thank worked, thanks!

Hopefully there is a history and it won't post another 80 threads in 15mins.

BTW, my time for all those threads is stuck at updated 1 minute ago.

Is that becuase there were too many for my forums to process correctly / fast enough?

-Raymond

I think that's a cron job, so you may have to wait till it runs.

About the history, yes, it's working correctly.

[jluerken]

I don't want to change the flood option to make this working.
The flood option is a good way to prevent spam bots or stupid users from spamming the board.

Zero Tolerance, couldn't you update this hack?
I think its really useful but with the actual bugs I removed it. :-(

[Carl Anderson]

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.

Did not fix it on my site went through everything and set all to 0 and still get the same error........... even tried PM set to 0 = no go same error

[silurius]

Has anyone compared this against Article Bot? Have a preference for one over the other?