Thanks for the help. But I am getting a number of other errors now:

So I think it will just have to go onto the backburner until I have more time to configure it.

try attached.
just add your own server paths etc, and upload again :-)

then add an rss feed for the bot, try this as it works on ours

http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline.../uk/rss091.xml

and make sure a forum is allocated for posts etc, and permissions set so reg user/bot can post etc

dont forget to add a template to the style you are using so that the post shows correctly..i.e

add template to current style, with the following

title: articlebot_post

template:


see if that works

Thankyou. I am no longer getting the error message, but I am also not getting any news.

I am not using a crontab (don't know how :o ) so am calling the ArticleBot via:

On the index.php page.

When doing this I am suppose to comment out

Or is this why I am not getting any feeds.

getting this error messages all over my forum

Warning: main(./articlebot/articlebot.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.sites/70/site4/web/forums/index.php on line 419

Warning: main(): Failed opening './articlebot/articlebot.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/.sites/70/site4/web/forums/index.php on line 419

Warning: Unknown(./articlebot/articlebot.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.sites/70/site4/web/forums/includes/functions.php(1955) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening './articlebot/articlebot.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/.sites/70/site4/web/forums/includes/functions.php(1955) : eval()'d code on line 1

I tried installing the Article bot for a while and can't get it to work. I would install using crotab but I don't know how to do this. It looks fine when I installed Article bot but it will not save any feeds and shows them as not valid in my admin panel.

Does one need to have the fopen wrapper on on the server. I need someone to install this hack for me using the crotab method, I will pay. contact me at SkorzGuy@allstarchat.com

ok i have this installed and running fine for rss feeds (see www.sellersforum.co.uk) live news etc...

but....the coding should accept rss2 type feeds..., but when i set them to rss2 it posts the title & link only..

it does this because rss text is inside "<description> </description>" tags

but rss2 is inside "<content:encoded> </content:encoded>

is there anyway, i could make it receive posts from rss2 i.e include text within <content:encoded> if so which files need editing.?

its supposed to be compatible with rss2, and may just need a small tweak, but im lost here folks, any point in the right direction would be gr8 :ermm:

I installed the Articlebot without problems and it works like a charm. Incredible!

I would like to make a contribuion to the programmer, anyone with a paypal link?

/Martin

well ours works like a charm apart from not receiving rss2 feeds (like its supposed to do lol)

ive tried adding content:encoded to the template to see if thats why it wasnt adding the text/post etc, but nope, that just makes more errors... o well...

im running out of ideas, and might have to call on an experienced coder to help me out....

so have you tried retrieving rss2 feeds>? do they show ok.? i.s full text etc not just one line...

I would love this to work, but I get a blank page at the articlebot.php page and I get these errors.

Mon Sep 13 14:16:35 2004] [error] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/theprcco/public_html/vb/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 141
[Mon Sep 13 14:16:35 2004] [error] PHP Warning: array_reverse(): The argument should be an array in /home/theprcco/public_html/vb/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 137
[Mon Sep 13 14:16:35 2004] [error] PHP Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/raw.php. (HTTP Response: ) in /home/theprcco/public_html/vb/articlebot/rss_fetch.inc on line 230

Running this via cron job.

Everything is running fine except I get the message titles posted ok, but nothing is posted in the message body (no link to the full article or description at all).

Yes I've added the articlebot_post template.

I've tried this with a bunch of different feeds with no luck. (Yes, I checked the feeds and they include a link and description)

Anyone else have this problem and come up with a solution?