Still cant get this to work using scheduled tasks. When I use ./articlebot/articlebot.php for the filename and manually run the scheduled task everything seems to work, page pops up with one word on it "articlebot" and nothing else, any ideas?

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /articlebot/articlebot.php on line 42

^^ this is what im still getting

for the place to point articlebot.php im using :
/home/tek/public_html/

no matter what rss feed I try to add to my bot I get

Error: There is no file located at ....

anyone got any suggestions for me please?

I have tried about 20 different feeds includign yahoo news feeds which i validated with a feed validator to make sure

I really am at a loss here :(

Could you give people a chance to answer you before bumping your post.

Have you tried this page?

http://news.yahoo.com/rss

Error: There is no file located at http://news.yahoo.com/rss

are you actually typing in the link to the XML files?

I was just telling you where the feeds are located.

well gee man instead of trying to come down on me for simply adding a bit of extra info to the post you could have read what I added and we could avoided all this.

This is a GREAT hack and is working well for me -- many thanks to the author and those here supporting it.

no doubt man , so what news rss feed are u using if i may ask?

ok i seem to have narrowed it down. if i use a absolute path on my server then it will accept the feed. If i use any URL it wont accept it.

I wondered does this mean theres a problem with my paths in articlebot.php but ive tried switching them around but nada?

Will someone PLEASE add some code to truncate the DISPLAY URL?

my site www.ipodarena.com is running vbadvanced but the news column is narrow. I have to manually edit URLs so they dont stretch the box and make my right side box too narrow.

you coulld set the column to be fixed width or I guess you dont want the wrap either

damn im stumped - spent half a day just trying to get this werkin hehe

anyone with any experience with this able to offer me some assistance?

Can anyone help me with the cache errors below?

Thanks!

Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/3f337277b2b2cfd6fcc0a0b953d1b88b
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/e905c9ebbb58c522239df9bfa6cea4cc
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/faa381df8ef97ebee0b979afaf6a08a7
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/7c5945d293bb83bcffa25ccb26f741c5
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/6965bb7e2cd199c6cebfcca7b0c15c30
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/e872bc0799d39b02da412a1fe5bed1ec
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/07199ba6b997fbb1322d6ef8f559a51b
Cache unable to open file for writing: ./cache/a3fcd87a0c09a0edcc94c99bcd7279eb
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=be8fe0a5677cbc5b73899fd4408e4222; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=1116586861; expires=Sat, 20-May-2006 11:01:01 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=1116586861; expires=Sat, 20-May-2006 11:01:01 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Check my implementation using 'Aibo' - the Sony robot dog:

www.engineers.net
www.9500communicator.com

I check feeds carefully first, and keep the posting rate quite low.

Cheers!

OK, new question.

I eliminated the bots posts from showing up on the search page, but now need to eliminate their posts from being counted on the forum home page.

For example, their posts arent showing up on the search page, but their posts are still counted here.

Your Info:
User: romeshomey
New Posts: 29
New Threads: 27
Private Messages: 0 Unread, Total 20.

How can I eliminate this?

Nevermind!

my ++++ing host has disabled the PHP option allow_url_fopen

BLAH

is there going to be anyway I can include an rss feed on my forum without this function?

where do I ask general questions on this forum?

Hi,

I'm having a problem that has only occured recently.

See:
http://www.bigbrotherwebsite.net/for...splay.php?f=34

The bot is starting to post up news stories from the RSS feed that are days or sometimes weeks old as new... why is this? It is not coming up in the actual RSS feed as recent news stories, only in the forum...

Can anyone help?


- Joe

Check the RSS feed/origin site - I have found that some feeds/sites will recycle older stories if there has not been much traffic.

Nope it's not that, because it's my own website that I am including the feed from in to the forum... it's very strange!?

- Joe

Have you noted that the old posts are duplicates, e.g. that they are identical in every way to prior posts? Same post title, content, etc?

Have you noted that the old articles have exceptionally long titles?

Mine was doing that and I edited the code to fix it. If you're having the same problem let me know and I'll post (re-post? can't remember . ..) the fix.

Kenny

Yup, yes to both those Kenny... they do have long titles and yes the duplicates are exactly the same... if you could would you be able to post the fix, I'd be extremely grateful!! :)


- Joe

Hey Joe, below I've attatched my description of and workaround for this problem. The shorthand answer, which does involve mucking with the database (so make a backup):

Go into PHPmyadmin (or whatever mySQL client you've got and change the column type of the "title" row of the articlebot_rss_cache table from Varchar(255) to "text". That eliminates a 255 character limit for titles in the feed cache and stops the doubleposting. Note that the thread title ON THE POST will still be limited to 254 characters, but this shouldn't be a problem at all for most people.

I did this about a month ago and I've had no problems at all since that time with doubleposting.

Here's the original stuff below:

Thanks kyouens!! Fingers crossed it works... thanks for your help, much appreciated!

- Joe

my cron gets these errors any ideas tried changing the files permissions

bump

I am getting the cron error, even though I have set the script to report to /dev/null

my error email I get is:

I followed earlier instruction, to change the table type of 'title' in 'articlebot_rss_cache' from 'varchar' to 'text' which eleminated 1 line of the error. What am I missing to fix this?

Thanks
-Zach

And what you have on line 161 (post a few lines before and after)?

As I check my morning email, I am getting the error on line 145 as well.

attached screenshot of articlebot.php that was uploaded.

I am trying to install a user as a bot I get the following error

Error: There is no user with ID of 0.

What is this?

I search but found no answer.

Thanks

You need to creat a user then enter its ID# when making it a bot...

thanks for the info.

If i can trouble you with one more question?

it seems that I screwed up creating the articlebot template.

can someone explain how to do this?


the threads are showing up, but not content.


thanks

AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager

Select "Add new Template" from the dropdown menu in the right frame and follow the template directions from the articlebot readme. The dropdown is the one with "All Style Options" as the first choice.

-Raymond

Would one of you please point me to where on your systems these posts are going so I can have a look?

Thanks,

Dennis

Is there a way that i can flag or change the RSS articles to NOT show up on 'new posts' or active topics??

your looking in the right place .. :)

Add the new template and all should now work.

I'd like to know this as well...

EDIT: Also, to make sure the bot's threads and posts dont count towards the forum and the member list.