When I run the articlebot.php file from the command line, I get this error:

PHP Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/htdocs/forum/articlebot/rss_parse.inc on line 399

PHP version 4.3.3

Any ideas as to why it's happening and how to fix it?

Hello Everyone,

This is a great hack but for some reason I can't get it to pull the feeds (I've been manually running the articlebot.php file every hour). This time though, I finally got an error message of:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: html_entity_decode() in /home/virtual/site7/fst/var/www/html/forums/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 242

Could someone possibly tell me what that is . . .

Thanks,

I upgraded to PHP 4.3.10 RC, and I'm still getting the same error: PHP Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/www/htdocs/forum/articlebot/rss_parse.inc on line 399

I gave up. So I installed the other RSS feed article bot that was mentioned in this thread, and that works great so far. I'd recommend that if you are encountering this problem.

Velocd: thanks for the work you put into this hack. I wish it worked for me.

Just installed this now (Clicked Install), and am glad to say, it's working great. Excellent Hack! Thank you.

-snake

Yup, I'm getting the same "Error: There is no file located" response...funny thing is it worked perfectly before I changed servers.

I know the settings are right because when I run the articlebot.php directly the timestamp in the AdminCP says so.

I know the feed I use (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rss.xml) is fine too.

Hey, this looks neat....

Yes I know I should have read the posts....
But I'm on short timeshedule (SP?) to day and is there a way of making this mod pull diffrent RSS feeds to diffrent forums????

Yes. You can specify the forum for each RSS feed. And you can have multiple RSS feeds on a single bot, with each feed going to a separate forum.

Cute !!!! :d

*LeeMan downloads and installs.

Installed but i don't get it to post... :(

Is there a way to check that it's getting the feeds...???
And i'm not using Cron, I use VB scheduler....

When you run it the first time, it won't import anything. Then you will have to wait for the next scheduled run time for it to import any *new* articles since it checked the first time.. Use a frequently updated RSS feed (i like to use slashdot.org), set the RSS Post Interval to something like 15 mins, and only retrieve 1-2 articles at a time. This will allow you to fairly quickly validate that your feeds are working.