"It all depends on the feeds. The point of the RSS feeds is usually to draw someone to the site where the news is posted, not to provide content to other sites for free. Some RSS Feeds are very thorough, but for the most part they are simply the headline, and a short blurb and a link to the article. If you are continually getting broken feeds, or partial posts then it is a bad news feed, and that is another issue, and it can be fixed by getting a different/better RSS feed"

The post shows ONLY a title in the title bar and no URL, description or any kind of post at all. I have gone through everypage on this hack and others have had the same issues but no one seems to have provided a definitive answer. I have tried with known feeds that work and the same problem for everyone of them. Title in the title bar, but no post at all.

It has to be something with the way this is set up. Can someone explain exactly where articlebot_post is supposed to be uploaded to, what type of file its supposed to be and exactly what the full contents of the file should look like. I am pretty certain this is where the error lies and a bunch of us just arent as smart and as intuitive as you coders :) Pretty please!

Thanks

Could you check the feeds with a 'normal' rss reader, and see what you should be getting in your forums. If it is different then it could be a problem with the forum code, if not then it's the feeds limitation.

Checked the feeds multiple times, its about 12 different feeds from reliable sources and they read fine in other readers. I have also tried feeds that people here have said are working for them. Its an issue with the configuration somewhere. If anyone has any idea or managed to fix this, I would be eternally grateful.

Literally, I think if someone that has this working could display the contents of their articlebot_post template (page) and tell me exactly where it needs to be uploaded and in what file format then this could cure the problem. Im certain its something to do with that.

Thanks

Kate

I get the same error on my vB 3.0.6, for any feed I am trying to add

Does this work with 3.0.6? Before I start installing, wanted to know...

Thanks

The templates are all in the directions. They are templates, not pages, so they are not uploaded- they are added via the Admin control panel: Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> Add New Template ->

yep!

If this works with 3.0.6, then what could be the cause of the problem with feeds?

As I have the same problem on my vB3 Installation, I tried to find out the cause of those symptomps. The error your are reffering to is the :

Which is on line 735, of articlebot_admin.php

The error is displayed when the following is true - if (!$rss = @file_get_contents($rss_path)) - Unfortunately, according to php.net, filget_get_contents requires allow_url_fopen on php.ini script of your server to be turned ON. As this is a potential security risk, I really don't want to enable the wrapper for external files, so I didn't mess with my php.ini script. In addition, magpie doesn't need fopen for getting RSS's contents.

So, I went to line 735 and commented out that check...

Problem solved, script works fine...

I have this hack installed on a 3.0.3 board and keep getting a cron daemon message like this:

From: "Cron Daemon" <>
To:
Subject: Cron <xxx@server> /usr/bin/curl http://soundchilds.net/loud_lounge/a...articlebot.php >/dev/null
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:35:06 -0800

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time
Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left
Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:03
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:04
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:05
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:06
--:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:06
--:--:-- 0

Any idea what might cause it and how it could be corrected?
###EDIT###
It looks like the script delivers all properly despite the report. So... If this can not be corrected easily, how could I turn the cron report off?
#########

Thanks for any ideas!
-Mika

Hi, I'm using this hack on my latest site, and I think it's fantastic.. I do have a question however, if you don't mind:

I notice that you've a 'Regex Search & Replace' built in, and thisis fantastic as I was hoping to be able to use it to replace new-lineswith spaces.

The two feeds I'm currently using(http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough andhttp://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/science) are putting a lot of newlinesinto the descriptions, and I want to remove them.. now I assume thatthe 'Regex Search & Replace' can do this... but I don't know whatcode to use.

Thank you :D

Mine is now working thanks to the kind guys who helped me, particularly Poolking - you guys rocked. Thanks again :)

Is there a way to take the RSS feed you get from Yahoo.com, and insert the words "read more" before the link to the entire story?

Seems simple, but would help my site look more professional...

Thanks in advance -
INterFX

This is easy, just edit the articlebot_post template.. here, use mine

I can probably work this out through trial and error, but as I am no php expert I was wondering if someone can help me.

The rss feed I am getting is only updated once a day as it is a TV guide for the day. However it has several <title> tags around each program.

I am presuming that I can comment out part of the code in articlebot.php so that the file is not trimmed down. I want the whole rss file displayed as one post, with the first <title> used as the title of the thread.

Thanks if you can help :)

at first, sorry for my bad english

now my reason for this post

i try to use a rss structure like this: http://www.kino-zeit.de/rss.php
there are fields of <content:encoded> with more informations and pictures as html code

in this thread are few posts about this theme, but no answers
there its named rss2

at last, is there a way to realize my problem?

THX Hubsi :)

It seems like I have everything all set up here. I haven't set up a cron job yet for the articlebot.php file. I just decided to run it manually to see if it worked and it didn't. I got the following error:

Any ideas?

where exactly are the bots on your forums? after 10 minutes searching İ gave up

no demo available?

Someone please help! I get a blank news post with only the title when my bot posts. It is not the feed because i am using bbc and yahoo feeds. Someone help!

How would you demo this?

Here is a forum full of short posts made by the robot, if that is meaningful to you. The feed was translated by a native Czech, so the English itself may be a little odd.

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=80

Regards,

Matt

I documented a cpanel cron setup and a working feed back on this page:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=441

I'd suggest that if you are having problems, you get it working with that feed and those particulars defined in that post. If it's not working then describe the problem. It is really too much to try to address every possible variable at once.

Regards,

Matt

memobug that was what ı'm searching. thx for usefull link.

This is just a great hack. One of the most useful ever, that will really build traffic and loyalty. Thanks.

As you can see here - http://www.entertainmentedition.com/...splay.php?f=71 - the posts have a title, but no message.

Any ideas on what might be the problem here?

:surprised:

I would like to post news headlines on a particular subject. I'd like to supply the key words (only once) and have the news headlines for those stories automatically appear on my site along with a link to those articles. I would like those headline with links to those stories to appear automatically without my intervention. Will your .... allow me to do that and how would I do it?

I have the same problem a reply which i have tried countless of times? Any support?

thank u for your hack :)

Maybe you've meantioned about it before,

I have an rss feed from a site called lockergnome.

EXAMPLE: http://feeds.lockergnome.com/rss/web.xml

Problem is, they take all their forum posts and put them into the RSS feed.

That is ok, but then the ArticleBot starts from the BOTTOM and works its way to the TOP. Meaning that the posts will be out of order.

The articlebot posts the LAST message in the forum, and then gets to the first later on... so some people on my forum are sitting there reading this post that doesnt make sense cause it isnt the starting thread...



HOW CAN I MAKE IT SO IT READS THE FIRST POST IN THE RSS, THEN WORKS ITS WAY DOWN INSTEAD OF UP?


Thanks in advance! Great hack!

some members where bored to see the RSS-posts (threads)
after using "new posts". if you don't like see that posts there
follow the steps below...

so i modified the links in "navbar"

important:
65 & 66 are my forum ids where the rss-feeds are postet.
so you have to change them (it).

find 3 times:
and change it to:
if you have only one forum for RSS than it has to be like this:
and if you have more forums:
_______
demo for 3.0.7:
http://www.acnw.de/board/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Great hack Velocd,
Thanks! you're work is very much appreciated :cool:

Thanks to memobug also :cool:

Regards,
Jbear6

hmm try to install but i get thiss error on my site
anyone knows what it is and get it to work

this is prob a really stupid question but you cant do this hack with out setting up the cron job can you ??? bastard host (globat.com beware) dont support them for security reasons :disappointed:

You can always set up a VBcron...

Still get blank threads posted by my BOT. Is no one ever going to help me.

ive just installed this hack but my bot is not posting

am i doing something wrong?

ive gone into the set up bit and ive linked to all the code stuff for the feed but he dont post anything lol

any ideas?

Thanks. This hack is great.

You have to wait till the site updates.

Great hack but a quick question:

Would it be possible to replace HTML with BB code using regex?

My favorite RSS uses a ton of HTML. I figure I can comment out or remove this line in articlebot.php:

But how can I turn the HTML into BBcode with regex?

"The other methods are placing an include_once in your index.php file, or in your phpinclude_end template. In the former case an extra query will be called everytime your index.php is accessed, while in the latter an extra query is called on every page." ..

It's listed in the hack instructions.

Did you create the new template .. ?