Thanks for the feedback ... :)

I guess I was confused with the Which vBulletin usergroup should be used when displaying the forums? option. I thought it somehow controlled what usergroup could access the forums remotely using RSS feeds, as opposed to it being simply what forums on the list they could see.

I'm a little green on this RSS stuff. I'm still stuck in the 60's with Fortran programming background. :D

I assume that the reason any of the remote RSS feed agents only see posts that are available to Un-Registered Guests, is for the same reason? These agents can't read any post that is requires the user to be registered?

Thanks... :)

Regards,
Badger

Edit: BTW, do you do custom paid contract work, such as modifying the External.php to do what we need?

In hindsight... yeah, I could see how that description could be interpreted a few different ways. That option was added as a result of some confusion surrounding forums that guests aren't allowed to see. For example, if you had a forum named "Staff Only" and is only available to your moderators then when your moderators went to the cv_rss_feeds.php page they would see that forum listed. The concern and confusion was that that the forum isn't supposed to be shown to everybody. In reality, though, when a non-moderator went to cv_rss_feeds.php then the "Staff Only" forum would not be listed since they didn't have access to the forum. To make life a bit easier the option was added so that by using a usergroup 'model' for the listing then everybody would see the exact same forums listed regardless of what their permissions really were.

I missed fortran; I started with COBOL on a UniSys mainframe back in the 80's. Ah, disc packs, tape reels, greenbar bursters... those were the days.

I'll give a hesitant 'yes' to that one. The script 'external.php' that comes with vBulletin (and is what actually generates the RSS feed) will use the user's permission if they are logged in else 'guest' permissions will be used. That means if your moderator goes to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php then they will see posts from all forums that they have access to, including the "Staff Only" forum, but if a non-moderator or somebody who is not logged in goes to the same URL then they won't see the "Staff Only" posts.

I do some odd jobs but not a lot these days (the day job takes precedence). But, if I'm understanding your other post correctly, a think a plugin might handle what you're looking for. If I am interpreting it correctly you have a forum that might be named "Special Forum" that several usergroup are allowed to post into but when the RSS feed is generated for that forum then only threads from usergroup X should be shown. Is that what you're after?

I've set it to "blank" on my system. When I view it as a Usergroup 2 (Registered Member) the display of the mod's RSS pae looks exactly the same as when I view it as a Usergroup 1 (Un-registered Guest), yet their should be forums that the "guest" does not see at all? Am I still missunderstanding this function. Blank (or 0) should pick up the more restricted "Guest" privileges and not display those forums?


I couldn't make it work that way directly out of the box using either the Tristana reader or Yahoo. I searched around here and found this:

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2

Once I installed that mod along side yours, I was able to read forums the way you describe, that previously gave me the error above with Tristana that require Registered(Usergroup 2) access. I still get the same error using Yahoo though. Tristana permits someone using their client to put in a username and password for each feed if required, but that function didn't I(and still doesn't) seem to make any difference in controlling whether it can open up and get access to any feed. This additional mod seems to do that through the "cookie" thing.

Close... :D

I know I'm explaining my needs badly, but in simple terms....

I would like our various members to have the convenience of using RSS, Yahoo, or the other agents you supported, to stay remotely in contact with new posts made on our site, BUT without having to go there in log in. I assume that's what RSS feeds are designed to do... a "push" kind of approach to data?

Now, here's the catch ... I'd like them to have EXACTLY the same access permissions to view forums and posts remotely using whatever agent they choose, as they would have if they had logged on directly.

Is that even possible?

Thanks again for your support and feedback ... much appreciated. :up:

Regards,
Badger

Thank you Kevin : )

When will this be released? :)

I have made the VBSEO edit.

I have an issue though: some of the RSS feeds work, but most of them don't?

http://www.phonedevil.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

Also, now that I have made the VBSEO edit, is that all I need to do for it to be compatible with vBulletin?

p.s. a very good mod !! ...just make it work 100% for me please ;)

Will you release this hack in the 3.7 modifications forum as well?

I can but this version works perfectly fine under 3.7.x as well (I have not had to make any modifications to it on any of 3.7.x sites).

I've renamed cv_rss_feeds.php and also changed it in hack's control panel. However RSS button in footer still links to cv_rss_feeds.php and not the new one. :confused:

EDIT:
Already solved here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=328

Thanks

Looks like I need to update the copy here. :D I'll post the current version over the weekend.