I just need to find a German feed about vintage cars and Iam fine. Thanks for this great hack :)

Installed per instructions and received the following error message:

includes/config.php does not exist. Cannot continue.

I know the config.php file is there, it appears that there is something off in the code. Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?

Problem SOLVED!

hi guys,

i'm a bit of a noob. but i installed this mod (so far so good) but now I get an error each time my bot has to make a post;


Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (mismatched tag at line 291, column 4) in /home/httpd/vhosts/p8ce.com/httpdocs/test/new/forums/articlebot/rss_fetch.inc on line 230

Warning: Argument to array_reverse() should be an array in /home/httpd/vhosts/p8ce.com/httpdocs/test/new/forums/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 137

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/httpd/vhosts/p8ce.com/httpdocs/test/new/forums/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 141


does any1 know why this is happening?

Burley it just means that your rss feed can't be parsed. In other words its a bad feed. Get another and repeat. When you get a blank screen with no errors...your in the clear.

I installed article bot..so far so good. I've tried different feeds...all is well. When it posts the feeds to my forum it only displays the title, a short description and a url to someone elses article.

Its doing its job, however, does anyone now how I can capture the entire article and post it as opposed to just the description.

Usually its due to the rss feed it self...it can only read what its given, but, are there any rss feeds out there that give you the whole article??

Is there a way to add fields for the bot to post ie: date?

will this work?
if (!$article['link'] || !$article['title'] || !$article['date'])

I'm about to try it, but in case someone knows how to add more fields, please let me know. Thanks.

How can I stop the "UNKNOWN LOCATION" in the who's online bit, when i'm using article bot with a cron job?

Sowwy my n00b question, but is anyone using this Hack in vB 3.0.4 ?

I have this currently installed on my production vB 3.0.3, is there anything I should pay attention when I upgrade vB to 3.0.4, do I have to do any additional steps after upgrading to ensure this Hack will continue to work? O_o

Cheers,
w0z

I've recently set up a new board and have added the ArticleBot mod to post news items to a specific forum.

The problem is that now the "Bot" user shows up as the "Top" poster.

Anyone know how to make the Bot's posts visible but not count in the post count? I know I could turn off post counts for the forum the bot posts in but that would affect all users.

James

Find the following code in articlebot.php:

replace with: