See the cron job malarkey.

Is there any reason why you cannae set the cron as a scheduled task in the vbulletin admin panel or am I missing something really obvious?

I think i got it....i had mutliple listings to post from the search engine they gave me....but it would pull the same data, just from a different source each time it updated....so i would have multiple posts stating the same thing, the only difference was the source.

But i managed a way around it.

Thanks for the help

Hiya I was wondering if you can help me..

I installed and then removed this hack, but now it seems that none of my users can make new threads on any sections within the forum, it just comes up with this error message:

No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

Users have no problems with replying to current posts made.

I removed the files, and removed the relevent tables it made in the database, but something is very wrong here.

vBulletin 3.0.3
http://f7.sanjiyan.co.uk

Why can't ArticleBot process the following news feed, for example. Yahoo has a GREAT tool for searching/filtering news and outputting it as RSS.. However it is useless if I can't get to work. For comparison, I've provided a yahoo feed that does work.

Doesn't Work:
http://search.news.yahoo.com/usns/yn....html?vo=happy

Works:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/us

Both work in several Windows RSS readers.

Thanks for any help!
-Victor

Sorted this problem out now, so can you please ignore this 'help' request.

Hello I'm installing your Hack and am stuck at step #3. I gues I'm too literal but can you elaborate?

"Create a template called articlebot_post"

where do we put this Template?

Thanks

Velocd here is update from a little while ago-

I made a text file and called it "articlebot_post" and put it in /path/to/forums/admincp/

Is this correct? (it doesn't say in step #3 where to put template)

Anyway after I uploaded all the files and went into admin panel I see the article bot stuff on left,however

I'm getting this error inside admin when trying to add bot-

==============================
Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT userid
FROM user
WHERE userid = 0

mysql error: Table 'CreditForum.user' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Friday 16th of July 2004 04:40:33 PM
Script: http://www.creditscorebooster.com/Cr...ebot_admin.php
Referer:
http://www.creditscorebooster.com/Cr...min.php?do=add

===============================================

When I log into phpmyadmin for access to database I see this error;

Error
The additional Features for working with linked Tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here.

PMA Database ... not OK[ Documentation ]
General relation features Disabled

=================================================

Do you suppose that this means I can't use your hack on my server the site is hosted on?

Can you help trouble shoot this?

Thank you
Looks like a really good hack once it gets going.

R.C

Please help me, I'm getting this error:

@romeshomey:

What was your solution?

C.

Strangely enough, if I save the RSS html file to my server and have Articlebot read it off the file (as html), it works fine.. But if it tries to get the feed directly from the feed server it doesn't work. Guess I'll have to write a cron that saves the feeds to my server!

-Victor

This fixed the articlebot HTML encoding problem for me :

In the articlebot/articlebot.php change:



HTML now doesn't need to be enabled (which is a security risk).