hello ive just done the code edit above to try and limit the number of posts the rss bot posts but it doesnt seem to be working,i only need 10 news items posted but its posting over 100 :surprised:
any idea why the above wouldnt work?
ive set my cron to 24hr update

in rss_update.php FIND:
REPLACE WITH:
you are replacing "count($rss_allItems)" with the number of news articles you want. in the example code above i replaced it with 10. so it will take the 10 news articles and post them. however, i don't know if this will be a problem or not because if there are only like 5 news articles and you have hard coded in 10 news articles it might pose a problem.

thanks

ive set it so i can moderate the posts from the yahoo feed so i can pick 10 feeds and prune the rest.

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thanks

newest version: 1.24 (PHP > 4.3.0) and 1.24a (PHP < 4.3.0)

i rewrote the way Delete All News was done. it now uses a function within vB to delete the posts rather than a manual deletion of them. helps keep everything neat. it will also recount the posts in the forum.

Is there a way not to add the news posts to the total posts number?

the original one did not increase the post count. but search and similiar threads didn't work either. i don't offer support for either of those. there has been numerous fixes and upgrades to the way things work. i would suggest that you use the modified original version if you are going to use one of them. it is more stable than the original.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60899 - original
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=139 - modified original

what would I be doing wrong? The task is not updating on its own. It works fine when I hit the "run now" button. I have it set to run every hour.

do you have a busy forum? i found the way that the cron jobs work in vB is that say you have a list of cron jobs 10 long. the page has to be loaded at or after the scheduled time for the cron job. my forum isn't too busy now and i found to get it to run i have to just reload the page a few times and the news will be inserted. mine is set to run at the hour every hour. if it hasn't run, i look in the scheduled tasks to see how many jobs before it haven't run yet. then i refresh the forums that many times.

Actually no this is a test forum that I setup.

then that might be the problem. it's not actually a true cron job which will run on the hour every hour. you have to have the pages being loaded to check for the next cron job time. if it is time, or past time, it will run...next page load checks for the next cron job.