I have same problem, please Help me.

Thx

Looks like support is sparse. :( I guess I'll have to uninstall it... again...

When you say feed, do you mean in the output page of this script or your actual external.php RSS feed?

See the responses a few above yours about vBSEO 3.1 and the function name that was changed. You can either do a manual edit on the file or wait until the next release.

Considering that it was a holiday week (I prefer spending time with the family & friends, not being online) and that both issues (vBSEO 3.1 gold and the link problems) have been addressed your criticism is a bit unfounded. Heck, Peggy, you yourself posted what the issue is with the links over at vBFAQ. :erm:

For the links problem turn off the option to include the template names in your HTML output in your ACP (shouldn't be turned on anyway in a production environment).

Go to this link: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php

That will bring you to my feeds page on my forum...

Now clcik the RSS button next to Saviour PC Forum...

Look for the link to "Interested in making a website" and click it...

Do you see the BBCode? That's what I'm talking about...

My other question is why doesn't all the content from the post show up in the feed?

Thanks for your quick reply...I appreciate that.

OK, gotcha' now. That is the actual RSS code that is generated by the stock "external.php" script that comes with vBulletin (eg: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php).

The BB code showing is a good question since the external.php script is supposed to strip out the BB code tags. When vB.com is back up (they're down at the moment for the vB 3.7.x beta upgrade) ask them to take a look at http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php?forumids=54 to see if they would know why your BB codes are not being stripped. The external.php is a stock vBulletin script and the cv_rss_feeds.php script does not have any affect on it.

By default the amount of the output shown is the same length as the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title in the forum thread listing). That is set in ACP => vBulletin Options => Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) => Length of Thread Preview Text with a default length of 150 characters. If you change that value then take note that it will also affect when you hover over the thread title. If you want just your RSS feeds from external.php to display the entire thread instead of just the thread preview then you can add an option like "fulldesc=1" to the URL. For example, http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/ext...hp?forumids=54 versus http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/ext...=54&fulldesc=1. I personally wouldn't give the full feed since then it doesn't give the reader motive to click the link and visit the site since but if you want to change it then modify your "cv_ffl_forum_feed_link" template and change it from...... to ... ... instead. Note that besides adding the fulldesc=1 option the "?" in the if condition changes to an ampersand "&" as well.

Well...bad news...

vbulletin.com does not support modified versions. So they want me to backup all my data...and re-install the product...ain't gonna happen.

I finally got my forum the way I want it...and had no problems...up until now...

So...needless to say...I have uninstalled your product.

Thanks, anyway...

Um... this script does not modify external.php in any way shape or form, it simply points to it.

After you uninstalled it, does the BB codes still show?

I'm not trying to be a wise guy...but if I uninstalled it...how will I get it to show?

The links to external.php in your /forums folder is part of vBulletin and comes with it. When you view your RSS feeds the generic link would be http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/external.php. You can then pass parameters into the script by putting them in the URL. For example, if your forum visitors knew that your Other forum had a forum ID of 54 then they could see the RSS feeds only from that forum by using a URL like http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/ext...hp?forumids=54 directly.

This script (the "CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing") is simply a listing of all of your forums that links to the external.php script that comes with vBulletin. Think of it is as a mini 'site-map' with a quick link to the individual forum RSS feeds.

That is why if you said you were having a problem while viewing cv_rss_feeds.php then it is a problem with this script but if you are seeing strange results while viewing the actual RSS feed that it links to, (eg: http://www.saviour-pc.com/forums/ext...hp?forumids=54) then it is unrelated to this script so it does nothing more than points to it. For example, when somebody mentioned earlier that when they changed the name of cv_rss_feeds.php in the ACP but the automatic button in the footer didn't change as well then that is a problem that I missed but seeing BB codes in the actual RSS feeds is unrelated to anything with this script (cv_rss_feeds.php) since the feeds are generated by external.php and is a stock vBulletin script.

I try to help out with any questions that people might have with problems/issues related to the stuff I release but when it comes time for stuff like "Why are BB codes showing up in the RSS feeds generated by external.php?" then that is something that the vBulletin support guys should really be handling.

Okay...I went to the URL of the external PHP file and they still show up...

I hope you continue to give me support on this...if I can get this issue resolved...I'll be more than happy to reinstall your product...I love it.

Attached is the code from my external.php file. Hopefully you can take a look at it and tell me what the issue is.

Like I said...I'd love to have this installed and working properly.

Update...

I've decided to give this another try...I think it may be something I'm doing...will play the waiting game.

Installed!

I did? Sorry I don't remember, lol. Sorry Kev, I didn't see the link question asked here, and I'd just come from your site where questions had been asked and no reply was posted, from October, so I'm sure you can understand the frustration. :) I hope you had a good holiday!


Thanks again :D

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I don't want the first list of links to show -- only the ones with feeds. See the screenshot and my feeds page at http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/rss_feeds.php.

Thanks for the great mod! I got it working with vBseo 3.1 by just changing "get_forum_info();" to "vbseo_get_forum_info();" in the cv_rss_feeds.php file.

:)

KW802, you may have missed this question with all the chaos and misunderstanding going on in the last few posts:

Any instructions you can give to include the vBulletin Blog RSS feed into the page?

{Scratches my head at this one.} Do you have any other 'sitemap' type hacks installed? That code doesn't appear to be generated from this script and the very first line should be the generic "The Church Media Community" master link (the first line that actually has an RSS button on it). My guess would be that it's picking up a global variable set by a different hack/add-on somewhere and is including it in the output. If you can think of what 'sitemap' hack you might have installed I'll take a look at it to see why there is a conflict, else I'll go back and see what I can to do prevent it generically.

Exactly. :) The next version will check to see if vbseo_get_forum_info function is defined else use the get_forum_info function for compatibility with the older versions of vBSEO. There haven't been too many vBSEO 3.1 Gold complaints so I've been holding off on releasing the 2.3.1 version to see if there are any other features/fixes I need to put in there.

Yep, I missed that one, sorry.

What are your thoughts on how it should be included? A generic link to the blogs if I detect that the blogs are installed or perhaps some type of entry box in the ACP for people to type in additional links manually or a different method? Where do think additional links should appear, above or below the list of forum links?

With so many packages now offering RSS feeds (eg: vBulletin, vBulletin Blogs, vBadvanced Dynamics, PhotoPost Pro & PhotoPost vBGallery, etc.) I not visualizing yet how it should be handled. If you (or anybody else reading this and would like to help out with ideas) can help me get a grasp on the best way of handling it visually I can work on the code. :o

I thought it was odd. It's been doing that ever since I install the mod. I scanned the feeds code and the templates and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. I don't have any site map hacks. I can list my mods if that would help.

Nice one, installed, thanks!

KW802 , in my forum Guests can see the forums but they can not Read threads so all the sections shows up in cv_rss_feed.php but in closed sections we get blank page .

do u have anyidea how can i fix it ??

thanks

Sorry - had a problem with vbseo 3.1 but fixed it by reading this.

I see you have a unanswered question from last august on your forum about the BFO option of this hack. So do you provide a branding free version of this hack?

Thank you for such a helpful mod! (installed)

I did find one small issue:

The cv_ffl_forum_link template has several newlines at its end which end up in the link output. These newlines were preventing vBSEO from replacing the forumhome link with the correct URL--but the newlines may cause other problems as well.

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.

So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions. What that means if you're logged in then you'll see the forums listed on the page and you'll be able to view the RSS feeds if you have access to those forums but if a forum is not viewable to guests and if you're not logged in then the forum will not be listed on the page and you'll get a blank page even if you manually enter the URL to the external.php script with the forumID in question.

To test this... create a forum that only a certain user group can see, add yourself to the new group, and then go to the CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing URL. The new forum you created will be listed and, assuming that you've created some test messages, the RSS feed from external.php will be shown when you click the RSS button. Copy the direct URL to the RSS feed to your clipboard. Now logout and view the vB Forum Feed Listing page again. The new forum will not be listed. Now using the URL in your clipboard try viewing the RSS feed directly. It'll be blank.

Its really a great addition, i have installed it successfully and is working fine.
Thanks very much.

Installed here http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php and all of the cinvin options are setup. Usergroup number is set to 2 for registered and above users.

External Data Provider settings for RSS are set.
Enable external Javascript - yes
Enable RSS Syndication - yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) - yes
Enable XML Syndication - yes

all forums are present, but there is no xml in the RSS Feed????

Thank you

is it possible that in the rss feeds page , first it check the usergroups and then Just show the rss feeds that ppl can see it ! for example for guests , just show them a sections that guests have access to them . to admin shows all And ............

thanks

It already does that. If you are running the absolute latest version then go into the ACP and remove the value from the UserGroup field.

Ok! In my forum I'll have two or three forum completely free and all the others available only to paying members. All the paying members will be in a group called "Pay" and all the others will be in a group called "free". All the free users will be able to see just the titles of the threads but not the content.

What you say is that, leaving the things as they are now, the "pay" members will see the complete RSS feed and the free users will se only the free forum feeds and not the others?

Hi!

I installed this on vB 3.6.8 and get the following error:

I followed the instructions exactly.

Any clues?

Thanks!

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

Would you be able to identify why the feeds are all blank here? My post is a few back. I also posted in your cinvin forum and I marked as installed.

Thank you

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php

Did you try turning the Debug option to see if any messages are given?

Hi, thank you for reply.
Yes, all i got was VbSEO disabled and debug enabled. The feeds are still just blank.

It looks like none of your forums are viewable as guest! The problem appears to be with the way your forums & permissions are configured.

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net

What value do you have in the 'user group' option in the ACP for the feed listing? If you remove the value do the feeds show when you are logged in? What is the date of the newest thread in the forum that you are trying to view versus the thread cutoff in your ACP in the external data feeds options??

Cinvin forum feeds
2 for registered users (still can't see anything as registered or administrator)

External Data Provider

Enable External Javascrip Yes
Enable RSS Syndication Yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) Yes
Enable XML Syndication Yes
60 for thread cutoff
60 cache lifespan
100 maximum external records

Last post was 12/20/07

Hello I have installed this mod and is working fine for me; am really glad to have such a beautiful and important mod. I am getting a little problem and it is that i have integrated another mod for downloading softwares in my forum "DownloadsII 5.0.6 by CyberRanger & Jelle" but the rss feeds are not including this mod.
Is there any way that it also include list of software categories and softwares inside it; that will be really helpful in boosting in SEO.

Thanks

Bump??? Still got nothing. Is there anything else which can be enabled/disabled/tested? Above is my last response to author.

I debug and has this error

DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

i logged in as admin and i certainly have permission to view the forum, what could be the problem?

i only see the title of of the forum in you cv_rss_feeds.php

and after i get vbseo 3.1 enabled, i see a blank page with an line of error. after that i exclude cv_rss_feeds.php and now i get this:

DEBUG: DEBUG MODE IS TURNED ON
DEBUG: vBSEO mode is turned ON in the module properties but vBSEO does not appear to be installed and/or enabled.

however, i still have this problem
DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

Thank you! :)