For anyone using this plugin, you may want to make the following changes to improve the way vbnetwork handles special characters:

Line 320 of "/forums/network/function_network.php" should read:
$xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'."\n";

The line just below that should change "=" to ".=".

With that small change, you will eliminate a lot of "error code 3"/XML parsing errors, where the XML feeds are corrupted due to the use of special characters in posts.

I have installed and created a new network. For those wanting to join and network with geekhack.org, please drop me an email at: me [at] imav [dot] org

This is something I have been curious about, tagged... thanks.

No takers??

I've given up on this one.

Tried to upgrade it for vBulletin 4, but failed

i know this is quite old, but I dont see why it isnt working... I am using vb 3.8.11 and PHP 5.6.4 when I try to add new network, upon clicking save the page goes blank and nothing is added in the database.

I have tried going through the files and replacing =& with just a = but still no luck. anyone got his working?