Does this work for vb 3.7?
Is the text cutoff defined in vbulletin or in this addon?

Hi! i got a little problem:

my forum only got ONE rss-feed-link and not a feed for every (sub)forum.

where is my misstake?!?

thank you!

Author seems to have stopped supporting. He's not supporting in his own forum either. I think it would be best if there were a troubleshooting type guide or something. Every problem seems to be the same. Either the feeds aren't showing, or topics don't show.

Suddenly I'm getting the following error:

I'm not sure when this started happening since I just had a user point it out to me.

Any ideas?

bingo!

awesome!

too bad the author has decided to quit supporting....I hate it when that happens.

Perhaps you can Install the Addon that Posts a New Thread when a New File is Added!! :rolleyes:

You Can Find that Addon in the Same Page as the DownloadsII Mod Page!! :rolleyes:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Great Mod!! :up::up::up:

Good way to Opganize the External RSS Syndication!! ;)

I haven't used that Functionality in my Forums Before, and was wondering if the vBulletin Forums had it!! :p

One Question:

:confused: How can I Control the Time to Refresh the External RSS Results for the Forums?? :confused:

I can See that this Information isn't Refreshed every time a Post is made, so I deduce there's a Time between every Refresh!! :rolleyes: How can I know that Time and How can I set it?? :confused:

One Post Made by a User that Asks this Same Question:

(I think is important to Specify in the Instructions that the "External RSS Syndication" option should be Set to "Yes" to Start obtaining Results with the external.php Script, I noticed that Thabks to the Debug Mode you've provided with this Mod (Very Useful)).

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Edit:

I'll try the Option "Cache Lifespan", in the Same Location where you should set to "Yes" the "Enable RSS Syndication" option:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Very Useful!! ;)

:)

Other Question:

I noticed that the external.php detects Only New Threads and Not the Update of them; is there an Option for this Hack and/or the external.php (External RSS) to Detect the Update of the Threads and Report it on the external.php Results?? :confused: (Perhaps the Last Post, and/or the same First Post but of the Updated Threads)!! :rolleyes: :confused:

I Hope that is Possible!! :rolleyes:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Anyone having issues excluding certain forums from showing up in the RSS listings?

Installed: Thanks!

:p

I'd be interested in knowing as well.

Also wondering, has anyone tried it?

Works for me on 3.7 beta 5

Hey Kevin,

Does this work for multiple vBa Dyna instances, as well as with vBa Links Directory?

Thanks.
Jeff

Thanks that did work. Only happened once i upgraded to 3.1

- Should work fine on any of the vB 3.6.x & vB 3.7.x series.

- The vBSEO function name was changed with the newer releases (I think 3.0.0 Gold). The manual edit will take care of it and a future update (actually already code, just not packaged) will handle it automatically.

- I have not looked at including the Dynamics feeds but that's a good idea. Since the original version of this script there have been some third party scripts, such as Dynamics and some of the PhotoPost posts, that now offer RSS feeds as well. I'll see what I can do about including something with them.

- If anybody is having a problem with the forums exclusion option, please let me know. The early versions did indeed have a problem but the last few releases should've taken care of it.

We've been looking for a "brand free" mod that will enable us to make specific forums only available as RSS feeds. This one was recommended from another site, so before we get oo much further, I wanted to ask a question for clarity.

We would like to only have "Registered" members be able to select those forums and receive the feeds. Does this mod allow us to restrict the RSS feed access by usergroup?

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Badger

Ok, decided to try it anyway ... ;)

I'm able to get it to use Yahoo (as an example) and bring in threads that seem to be readable by unregistered users only. When I select a forum that requires a user to be registered, I get this error from Yahoo?

I also tried a free newsreader program from "Tristana" and essentially I get the same thing. Even though they provide data fields for the feed to enter a username and password to log into our site as a registered user, it also returns an error when trying to read in a forum as a feed.?

Tristana Error:

Any help or guidance as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Regards,
Badger

Just to clarify... this mod gives you a nicely formatted list of your available RSS feeds. When you click on the RSS button you are taken to the stock vBulletin external.php script. For what you are describing you would need the stock external.php script to be modified (likely could be done with a plugin).

Thanks for the feedback ... :)

I guess I was confused with the Which vBulletin usergroup should be used when displaying the forums? option. I thought it somehow controlled what usergroup could access the forums remotely using RSS feeds, as opposed to it being simply what forums on the list they could see.

I'm a little green on this RSS stuff. I'm still stuck in the 60's with Fortran programming background. :D

I assume that the reason any of the remote RSS feed agents only see posts that are available to Un-Registered Guests, is for the same reason? These agents can't read any post that is requires the user to be registered?

Thanks... :)

Regards,
Badger

Edit: BTW, do you do custom paid contract work, such as modifying the External.php to do what we need?

In hindsight... yeah, I could see how that description could be interpreted a few different ways. That option was added as a result of some confusion surrounding forums that guests aren't allowed to see. For example, if you had a forum named "Staff Only" and is only available to your moderators then when your moderators went to the cv_rss_feeds.php page they would see that forum listed. The concern and confusion was that that the forum isn't supposed to be shown to everybody. In reality, though, when a non-moderator went to cv_rss_feeds.php then the "Staff Only" forum would not be listed since they didn't have access to the forum. To make life a bit easier the option was added so that by using a usergroup 'model' for the listing then everybody would see the exact same forums listed regardless of what their permissions really were.

I missed fortran; I started with COBOL on a UniSys mainframe back in the 80's. Ah, disc packs, tape reels, greenbar bursters... those were the days.

I'll give a hesitant 'yes' to that one. The script 'external.php' that comes with vBulletin (and is what actually generates the RSS feed) will use the user's permission if they are logged in else 'guest' permissions will be used. That means if your moderator goes to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php then they will see posts from all forums that they have access to, including the "Staff Only" forum, but if a non-moderator or somebody who is not logged in goes to the same URL then they won't see the "Staff Only" posts.

I do some odd jobs but not a lot these days (the day job takes precedence). But, if I'm understanding your other post correctly, a think a plugin might handle what you're looking for. If I am interpreting it correctly you have a forum that might be named "Special Forum" that several usergroup are allowed to post into but when the RSS feed is generated for that forum then only threads from usergroup X should be shown. Is that what you're after?

I've set it to "blank" on my system. When I view it as a Usergroup 2 (Registered Member) the display of the mod's RSS pae looks exactly the same as when I view it as a Usergroup 1 (Un-registered Guest), yet their should be forums that the "guest" does not see at all? Am I still missunderstanding this function. Blank (or 0) should pick up the more restricted "Guest" privileges and not display those forums?


I couldn't make it work that way directly out of the box using either the Tristana reader or Yahoo. I searched around here and found this:

External Data Provider Usergroup/Cookie Setting 2.2

Once I installed that mod along side yours, I was able to read forums the way you describe, that previously gave me the error above with Tristana that require Registered(Usergroup 2) access. I still get the same error using Yahoo though. Tristana permits someone using their client to put in a username and password for each feed if required, but that function didn't I(and still doesn't) seem to make any difference in controlling whether it can open up and get access to any feed. This additional mod seems to do that through the "cookie" thing.

Close... :D

I know I'm explaining my needs badly, but in simple terms....

I would like our various members to have the convenience of using RSS, Yahoo, or the other agents you supported, to stay remotely in contact with new posts made on our site, BUT without having to go there in log in. I assume that's what RSS feeds are designed to do... a "push" kind of approach to data?

Now, here's the catch ... I'd like them to have EXACTLY the same access permissions to view forums and posts remotely using whatever agent they choose, as they would have if they had logged on directly.

Is that even possible?

Thanks again for your support and feedback ... much appreciated. :up:

Regards,
Badger

Thank you Kevin : )

When will this be released? :)

I have made the VBSEO edit.

I have an issue though: some of the RSS feeds work, but most of them don't?

http://www.phonedevil.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

Also, now that I have made the VBSEO edit, is that all I need to do for it to be compatible with vBulletin?

p.s. a very good mod !! ...just make it work 100% for me please ;)

Will you release this hack in the 3.7 modifications forum as well?

I can but this version works perfectly fine under 3.7.x as well (I have not had to make any modifications to it on any of 3.7.x sites).

I've renamed cv_rss_feeds.php and also changed it in hack's control panel. However RSS button in footer still links to cv_rss_feeds.php and not the new one. :confused:

EDIT:
Already solved here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=328

Thanks

Looks like I need to update the copy here. :D I'll post the current version over the weekend.

thanks!! :D

Just in case someone else get this I got a database error from this hack. Seems it installed fine and worked until I tried to add a payed subscription on my site. OPPS!!!! Database error. Had to uninstall and my subscription system works fine now.

Otherwise if your not using the subscription system on a VB (3.6.5 version ) its a great hack.

:confused: This has nothing to do with vB's subscription systems and does not make any changes to your vBulletin installation other than creating a new vB product entry.

Thought the same thing but as soon as it was uninsulated my subscription system worked. Might have just been a bug or another conflict that got cleared up when I removed it.

how to add google adsense codes to this feeds ? i hope if this modification supports the same..

Hey everyone I have two questions:

1. Is there any way to have the forum feed still show regardless of group permissions?

2. Can I limit the number of characters summarized in the RSS Feed?

I actually asked this same question in CinVin's forums and never received an answer.

thanks

Wow there is no support here.

why not just add the ads in the template where you edit the info on the template page?