Thanks:) . Once quick problem. Whenever I create a thread for a certain feed, what'sdisplayed is the link to the story and under the link "[URL=". What is this [URL= thing about?

Also, I'm pretty new to RSS feeds. So, does an RSS feed infringe copyrights; or do I have to ask the owner of the site I want a feed from to acquire it?

When the feed is created into a thread, any html img tags are converted into bbcode IMG tags. I find that the feed image tags tend to contain dynamic url's. Unless you have set vbulletin to allow dynamic img tags (admincp -> vbulletin options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Allow Dynamic URL for IMG Tags), vbulletin will convert the dymanic bbcode IMG tags to bbcode URL tags. The bad thing is ... that converion from an <img> tag to the bbcode url tag doesn't seem to work well sometimes creating the broken URL tags. Try turning on "Allow Dynamic URL for IMG Tags" and see if that helps.

As far as I know, you don't need to contact the feeding site. I do think you should leave a link to the actual article in the feed. vb3.6.x includes thread creation off of feeds so I feel the vb folks would have checked this out before adding the feature.

As an administrator I am able to view "abouttoday" but my normal users are not able to? I went through settings in the Admin CP but came up with nothing. Where do I go to change accessibility?

You'll need to modify the usergroup settings for your registered users.:)

I have this installed on 3.6.3 and for the most part is working fine, however I am having a problem with thread creation. When the talk about it button is hi t,it creates the thread with the link and a few words from the feed.

Here is an example - From the rss feed; http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
What is posted in my forums is:

This seems to happen for every feed that I have. Have I missed a setting somewhere?

Thanks for the hack!

You aren't missing anything! I need to get an update out. It seems like the latest versions of vb treat quotes a little different. If the feed has double quotes in it, the thread text is being truncated at the first double quote. I'll try to get something out in the next few days.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the quick response I will keep an eye out for th eupdate.

Can you give this a try:

On line 1218 of abouttoday.php, find:
Change to:

It seems to be working for the quick few I tested, will try a few more and get back to you.

Thanks for the quick update!

Problem only happens with SI.com. Have no idea why, any suggestions.


Link: www.u-connex.com/RSS_error.jpeg