Anyone having the problem of the last entry getting added again and again?

Yep, I'm having that problem but only with some RSS feeds that I pull into certain forums. I think it might be something to do with the website itself and the way they are presenting the information. For instance, if they update the date of a particular news heading, it's classed as new by the RSS hack script.

Slapyo - I know you built some form of checking into your script. Is this based on thread title, date or both. I would recommend it's changed to search for the title, so a search is done beforehand on existing forum threads. That way, dupilcation could be avoided. Maybe when you've finished your studies :).

well, I tried changing that line to just check for the title and still I'm getting duplicates whenever the script runs. I was going to put this rss feature on live at my site but this bug just hinders me from doing so. :(

did you make sure that you modified the files like noted in the installation file? i haven't noticed this problem with the script myself.

the rss script which goes through and checks for old posts checks for the title and the date. i haven't touched this from the original script. but i do know that it checks the title and the date.

Yep, I went through it all step by step. :(

Ok hmm, I removed all the database entries, reuploaded all the files and tried again
When I enable the RSS Feed, I get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_new_post() in /home/deimos/public_html/forums/includes/RSS/rss_update.php on line 103

Any ideas? heh

hrm ... i'm not sure. i'm sure that you did edit the files and upload everything to where it needs to go. but the only thing i could say is to double and triple check it.

also, do you have any other hacks installed? a while back someone installed this on 2 instances of vB. one was clean and one was hacked. he had a problem with the hacked one that we were never able to solve, and it was installed properly.

I decided to modify the program instead. I added a 'rss_url' in the threads table so I can use that as the key for comparing. I then changed the loop code in rss_update.php to compare each record via an SQL call, comparing the rss_url field. I also wanted a url column so I can easily do a news listing on my main page and have the link ready.

It's all working now. Thanks for this hack.

I am getting duplicates again... very annoying.. it's adding and adding... is there a fix for this? If so, can somebody post the instructions?

-Andy