Hi

I have turned off anything to do with referrer and i no longer get the database errors when i click the main forum RSS Image.

I still get a blank page when i click any other RSS image on the page though :(

Hey Kevin.. Nice hack.. Installed.. Works fine.. But I've a request.. Its also showing 'Private Forum'.. Can u please add an option thus I can exclude 'Private Forum'? Here is my link.. http://www.golpo.net/forum/cv_rss_feeds.php

Nice mod! I need it.
Any news on vBa integration?

Great, great hack! Installed but am going to have to remove it too because of guests being able to view private forums. :( It would be wonderful if we had the option to select which forums we wish to provide an rss feed for. ;)

so nice thanks. installed.

hmmmm, maybe I spoke too soon......not working very well with firefox.....some feeds are fine, others are blank pages, and still others have one feed or two.......any suggestions?

Good point, just checked and the blank pages are in Firefox, and in IE 50% o:(

guests can view private forums? eeeeeek, uninstalls

I'm not seeing that issue. I've checked with various accounts, and its completely based on the user permissions

No, this is not so, its based on forum permissions!

It's on my to do list to type up the instructions! I ended up helping the wife make some cookies last night so my choices were... (A) Type up some instructions or (B) Eat some freshly baked cookies. I went with choice B. :D I'll get something typed up today.

As others have mentioned, it's based upon the permissions of the user who is viewing the page. You see everything because you are likely the admin' of your site. Logout and view the page as a guest or a non-admin account.

I have yet to see any blank pages with IE. I'll play around with FF & Opera today to see what I get. If you're getting a blank page though... it's most likely not because of this hack. When you click on the RSS button, for example, you're seeing the output of the normal vBulletin "external.php" script. But, who knows, I'll check it out.

No, guests can not view private forums. The views are permissions based like any other page in vB would be.

Yep. :)

Do you have an IM address I can you reach you to ask a quick question to confirm my suspicion on what the problem is?

Hmmm, I did test as a guest. All they have to do is simply view the RSS feed and the private content is there.

For example the private boards on my site, guests can view forum and post titles but can not view thread content. With the RSS hack in place the content provided in the feed is viewable in a text form (as to be expected). But this is still a concern for my site as I run a parenting board and my private boards are those that contain pics of the kids. It's the published links that are my concern...

Actual private categories and their forums are hidden as they should be. Let me reinstall and see if I missed something.

eta: Odd, this is happening on some but not all. I've checked all my permissions, tested as a guest and everything else I can think of. I'm going to go ahead and click install because I think this is an awesome mod. And if I may, I would really love it if you could give us the ability to choose which forums to provide feeds for in your next version. Thanks!

Tobybird, this hack to view the forum list would have no affect on what guests can & can't see once they go to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php as that is controlled through the permissions of the stock vBulletin external.php script. Even if a private forum was accidently listed with this hack then once they clicked on the link they still wouldn't be able to see anything if the forum permissions are correct. If a guest is able to go directly to your external.php link and view threads from a private forum then a different problem is going on.

KW802, would you mind if I pm you with a link showing exactly what I'm talking about?

Sure, no problem. As long as it isn't a NWS site I can take a look this afternoon, otherwise it'll have to wait until I get home.

How can I whave the rss feeds to my webpage?

If you're talking about putting the feed(s) on an external php page then take a look at this. Worked for me. :)

Quoted from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...67&postcount=2

me to.

whats the difference to forums where this nice hack works perfectly ?

Edit: sorry read not all the thread news.

sent new pm

I've tried a few different things & Kihon Kata was kind enough to help me experiment a bit this morning and so far the only thing that I can find in common so far with Kihon's site and RexB's site is that they are both running vBSEO. I wouldn't think it'd make a difference but that's the only thing so far I'm finding. Cocko, do you have vBSEO on your site as well? I can't view your site from work so I can't check myself right now.

No, you are kind enough to care about your hack release and are taking the time to work with us. It's appreciated :)

serveral hacks installed but there is no vbseo on my forum.
i.e. CMPS 2.2.1 ==> forum.php (was index.php)

Edit: maybe a hint: cmps box forumlist does not work propperly (don't know why)

Edit #2: v1.0.2 is running ! (just even have seen this version)

installed :)

Cool! :D Thanks for downloading the new version and letting me know it worked. :)

This means it's down to Kihon & Rex having problems yet. Must be something I'm missing... back to going over the code.

Installed on v3.6.3 and pointed my browser to:

http://www.f-bodyhideout.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php

But I'm not seeing all of my forums listed. I know the RSS feeds are listed there....but it's not actually showing the names of the forums for the feeds.

Also, are we to make our own navbar links or was this suppose to place the link automatically?

Smoknz28, I can't view the link. When I try to view it as a guest I get a error message redirecting me to a "Please donate..." page.

No, it won't build the navbar link automatically. I'm not a big fan of products/plugins that try to change stuff in the templates but if enough people want it I'll put it on the To Do list for a future revision.

I upgraded to the latest version and now clicking on the RSS links in FF do nothing. Just take me to the top of the page. In IE, it just takes me to the forums, not the .xml output.

Merci!

works great!

:)

Are you sure you uploaded all of the files, in particular the PHP file? I just took a look at your link and your descriptions still have HTML in them which means the PHP file is version 1.0.1 or older (in version 1.0.2 stripping the HTML from the descriptions is default).

hi

I have now found out why mine is showing a blank page,
Its because of this http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/e...hp?forumids=90
Should be this http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/e...php?forumid=90

Notice the word forumids and should be forumid

Please see for your self :) How do i get it to change please?

Actually "forumids" is the proper one. What kind of permissions do you have on forum #90? When I try to view your forum #90 (here) as a guest I get a permission denied message which means that as a guest I would also be unable to view the RSS feeds for it. ;)

This is weird, Forumids work ok on this 1, new members http://www.bashys-place.com/forums/e...hp?forumids=21

but not on this 1... actually i just figured out a little more, anything that guests
cannot see is showing as a blank page!!!

Yep on both accounts. :)

Inside of "external.php" (the actual stock vBulletin script that products the RSS feeds) it is looking for "forumids" so if you use "forumid" instead it'll just ignore it and behave as if you didn't specify any options at all. If the guest does not have permissions to view anything then it will produce a blank page. That is why "forumids=90" produces a blank page (because it's the right variable but no permission to view a a guest) while "forumid=90" produces output (because it's the wrong variable so it's being ignored and it instead shows any & all forums that a guest does have access to).

So, Why would this show as a blank page for me when i am admin, it shows a blank page on the pages that guests cant see, or did you explain that i am that thick i couldnt understand it lol

Is there a fix or is it as is? Cause i will assume that all members will get this blank page

strange problem.. i'm getting an error just trying to unzip it on a mac..lol

That actually doesn't surprise me. The zip file was created through the CinVin products system which is a version of the same one used at vBadvanced which... sometimes has problems with zip files on Macs. Give me a few minutes to attach a tar file to the first post which usually works on a Mac.

EDIT: Well, it turns out that .tar is an invalid attachment her at vB.org so I had to go with Plan B. I rezipped the file in post #1 above using the internal functions of WindowsXP and re-attached the file. Please try now.

ok, made sur i re-upped and now i have the same issues as bashy

Bashy's issue is permissions for guests.

JD45,

Looks like there is still an issue with at least one of the templates. Please try the following...

1. In your ACP uninstall the product and then install a fresh copy from 1.0.2 release.
2. Upload a fresh copy of the 1.0.2 PHP file.
3. In your ACP choose ACP => vBulletin Options => External Data Provider => Thread Cutoff and bump that number up! The default is something like 30 (if I remember correctly) and some of your forums have no recent activity in them so for those forums you'll get a 'blank' feed since there were no recent threads within the cutoff period. In FF nothing is displayed but in IE you'll see the XML container. That's why, for example, the "PC Games" RSS feed will be blank in FF but the "PC Games Reviews & Previews" RSS feed isn't. ;)

yes.

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good job!