I've yet to see a dupe now. Ha! Two bugs fixed in one!

(knocks on wood)

yep, just been back on me site..deleted all the posts i grabbed from the feeds arlier, and tried forcing a feed update with a cron job done manually....updated with zero posts....

seems the dupe problem has been sorted out....

hope everyone else can use this info to try it on their boards... :ninja:

still seeing duplicates.

My problem is unsolved.
Please help

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=278

I think I figured out why I was getting duplicates. Kinda.

The order was set the wrong way. On the first import I had to have it on back to front to order the posts right, but then front to back to update it so it doesn't repeat.

I've got a question related to this.

Is it possible to have the posts not get 'bumped' to the top of the list when a user replies. Have the always ordered by the date of the first post?

Is that possible?

BTW, ZT came up with this kewl mod for me for the HTML usergroup cause HTML still appears. Note: You need this Plugin Installed for it to work

./includes/class_ffrss.php

FIND:
BELOW IT ADD:

IN: bbcode_parse_start (Plugin Manager) for plugin "Allow Usergroups to post HTML"

FIND:
REPLACE IT WITH

Now it should render feeds properly.


Note, this doesn't work if you installed this fix... for some reason those lines of codes make the mod above break.

Did you mean to quote me?

That's because you are making the exact same mistake my fix corrects with the other line of code; you are passing a variable as part of a string. That code won't work with newer versions of PHP 5 period whether my fix is used or not.

Hey I didn't write the code.... ZT did :)

Testing now...so far this works great!!!

Thanx ZT! You da MAN

NIce...!

Installed on 3.5 no problems.
Created a new user & moderate posts in new forum. Allowed html code in the forum.
I used google Top News:

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title

NOw all I have to do is find the post where I saw something about keeping the news feed out of new posts search? :)

Hope someone will find away around the dupe soon. :ermm:

Thanks, dreck

*install*

I still keep getting duplicates.

me too!!

omg.. I so freaking happy.

I fiiiiinaaaaaallllllllyy got it to work!!! :D

it was all about the cURL. I even had to switch hosts (UGH!) to get a host that would allow me to enable cURL. ;) :D

anyway.... haven't seen duplicates yet. but that is preferred to nothing at all for me. ;)

[high]* GrendelKhan{TSU finally clicks INSTALL!!
[/high]

btw...3.5.0 Gold

The moderator tip didn't work for me. I had to set post flood to 0 in order to stop the duplicates. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that I'm missing but the new moderator account I created for the feeds was still limited by the post flood protection.

I have installed this hack, and I have it importing the html just fine, but I have a problem.

the RSS feed when it wants to start a new line does, something like following:

The forum post it makes, ends up doing this:

same test.


new line

As you can see it does two line breaks. Any idea if I can get it to ignore the BR tag if it sees two of them?

You can see an example here: http://www.friendship7.co.uk/forum/s...ead.php?t=2389

Any ideas why it messes up when it comes to the <br><br> tags?

Or how do I get it to remove all the html tags from the rss feed?

Hey all im running vB3.5 Gold and ive added a feed.

I press the update button and i get this error.

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

Does anyone know how to fix?

Like the others, it is creating a lot of duplicate threads

I downloaded the lastest version and upgraded the hack, nd it fixed that errror for me.

Amazing... I was putting off upgrading to vB3.5 because I wasnt sure if I could get a good replacement for articlebot, but this easily fits my needs.. Thank you :D

wow. I actually just went through this entire thread :O

so, here's the quick OVERVIEW of what's up with this (doesn't cover everything, but most of the common problems/questions-- UP TO NOW):

feel free to correct me or update if I got something wrong...


==================================================
HACK SUPPORT/BUGS OVERVIEW:

• This hack DOES work for MOST people in 3.5 Gold. If it doesn't for you....read on....
  
  
• Just assume this hack is NOT supported!!!! And won't be for sometime.
  
  ZT is busy on other things. It may get updated sometime again (after ZT is done with the RPG game he is making for vb) and everyone will be stoked. But if you can't deal with that...then don't install and don't complain.
  (or go to his forums and see if you can reach him there). ;)
  
  
  ERROR:
• The feed is correct but you keep getting this error message: "INVALID URL TO RSS FEED GIVEN"
  
  ---solution:
  cURL or open_URL needs to be ENABLED in your server.ini file. THIS HAS TO BE DONE BY YOUR HOST PROVIDER. I had to actually move hosts to get it. :/
  
  
• ERROR
  
  Quote:

  Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

  Download latest version (we THINK is the latest.) This MIGHT fix it. (it worked for him)
  
  If still doesn't work.......
  then past solutions:
  
  ----solution:
  Flood Protection or Create Moderator
  more detailed info
  
  but that only works for some people. :(
  
  THIS solution (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=319 ) seems to work as well, and/or explain why it WON'T for some. But I'm a n00b too, so that is greek to me.
  
  
  
• What version is this? it still reads as 1.5 but the download says 1.6
  ----see directly below
  
  
• ERROR
  Duplicates!!....... Duplicates!!! =P
  
  ---Solution:
  well ZT made a brief announcement saying everthing was fixed HERE ...but looks to have forgot to actually update the ZIP download (1.5 to 1.6) before disappearing again. lol. It MAY be 1.6...but lists as 1.5 in the admincp.
  
  anyway... MOST PEOPLE STILL HAVE THIS ERROR. Some don't. Maybe 1.6 will get uploaded, maybe not....but see first item in this list if you got a problem with that. Until then.......
  
  YOU HAVE TO JUST DEAL WITH IT OR FIX IT YOURSELF!!!
  
  
• Parse URLS? (whatever that means... :p)
  Do this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=137
  
  Ane at the bottom of that post...you will find the answer to:
  
  
• Problem
  Set up so RSS feeds do NOT appear in NEW POSTS
  Again:
  
  Quote:

  One other thing someone was asking how not to exclude these posts in new posts or todays posts - do this.. if you have rss feeds in 16 15 and 23 just add &exclude=6,15,23 to the end of the do=getnew url and it'll exlude the forums with the forumids 6, 15 and 23.

  (that is, modify the navbar template.^^)
  
  OR you can use this: Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily
  
  
• Problem
  You do NOT want to enable HTML in the rss forum!!
  
  Then do this: new user in new usergroup with html enabled
  Using this: Allow Users Groups to post HTML
  
  
• PROBLEM
  "it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag."
  
  then this is a temp solution:
  https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=306
  
  
• PROBLEM
  Chokes on enclosure tags since there is no end tag.
  
  An enclosure tag looks like this -
  
  Quote:

  Code: <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:29:27 -0500</pubDate> <enclosure url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" length="4700889" type="audio/mpeg" /> <media:content url="http://libsyn.com/media/wizardsnetwork/UW_20051004.mp3" fileSize="4700889" type="audio/mpeg"> <media:adult>false</media:adult> </media:content>

  ---solution: none. Needs to updated to deal with this
  
  
• QUESTION:
  how do I get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.
  
  ---answer: You can't. You are at the mercy of the RSS feed itself. Its nothing to do with the hack, but dependent on the what the xml feed spits out itself.

there are some other issues....but those are the one's I saw with solutions or clear answers (good or bad).

please let me know if I messed any of that up and I'll update this post. ;)


Hope that helps. I wrote mostly for myself as well....shhesssssh!! this thread. +_+;;.... lol

I'm using this, it works great.

Is anyone getting any feeds with images? I'm interested to see how Inferno handles them.

Also, Inferno chokes on enclosure tags since there is no end tag. You might add that to your list GrendelKhan.

An enclosure tag looks like this -I really hope this mod is supported and doesn't turn into an "Article Bot".

how can i get the rss feed to display in full on my forum? at the moment it only shows a line or 2 of text then offers a link, is there a way of being able to get the full report rather than lose the members from my forum?

cheers

I have got http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=829&format=rss as my RSS Feed link, but everytime it updates, it adds the same news over and over again in the forum instead of just adding the newest ones without adding the whole lot of them again.

I would love to add this to my site but I request that all of my users add a special Post Icon whenever they post a link to a news story. Is there any way to alter this so that all the new posts that this makes get a certain Post Icon? Thanks for the help, great hack otherwise.

{XML[title]}

should work right? well it saves ok, but wipes my RSS settings after i save, might not like the extra tags, works for [B] etc

-b6

done. refresh :)

or click RSS SUPPORT/BUGS OVERVIEW POST
:)

@extreme-mobile: I don't think so. As I understand it (could be wrong), its nothing to do with the hack, but dependent on the what the xml feed spits out itself.

ok thanks mate

yeah same ere! - the feed is good, just adds the same amount over & over again, stops at a certain point in time and i dunno why...hmmm

EDIT - looks like version 1.5 is still online, instead of the bug fixed 1.6, might fix this duplicate problem

-b6

I just installed this AOK, butttttttt

When it first ran, it added some 29 new threads, no problem
But, no matter how many times i click "mark as read", they still show up on the new post count?

try editing your "new posts" link in your navbar template

Add the &exclude=27 (change 27 to the forum id where your feeds are posted)

-b6

I am a complete novice at this so please bear with me. I appear to have installed it properly but how do I get it to show in a Forum? I have set up the name of the Forum through the ACP>RSS Forum Feeds

Thank you

Hello,
I have this hack on my forums, and its great! Much better than article bot. I would like to add a Slashdot feed, but can't seem to be able to add it. Has anybody else successfully added one? Whenever I try I get a bunch of errors :(.

Hello,

Should I be able to get this feed to work?

http://www.billrini.com/xmlfeeds/cp_news.xml

This is the first one I have seen with the RDF in it, seems to be giving me some troubles.

I am trying to use:

channel / items / title

{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}Read more... (surrounded by the URL tags)

It gives me the error:

The system could not find the thread "title" tag you specified (title)

-Raymond

@abd22791 and popowich

I myself tried to add slashdot and Was unsuccessful at getting it to detect an rdf feed.

@b6

I was trying to incorperate html into my definations area so that it would hot link and what not. Seams html is not allowed because it just dumps everything. Try sticking with bb code.

One question, is the version number in product manager still supposed to read 1.5?

I have read all the way through page 16 and gave up.

Does anyone know how to get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I have this working perfectly, I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

Thanks

I believe you are at the mercy of the source of the feed.

You get the teaser, than click the link to go to their site.

Otherwise, why would you visit their site?

-Raymond