[Velocd]

Just wondering what version of RSS can this hack handle. The other hack can only handle RSS 0.91. Can it parse RSS 2.0, like that of VB3's?

Thanks.

MagpieRSS handles the following, as noted in the install.html:

RSS 0.9x, RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom 0.3

Very nice hack, installed and testing at the moment, however I've got a problem (and it started off so well too!).

Anyway, I have several feeds, all but two work. If I exclude these two feeds, the other feeds (3 other feeds) work 100%.

The error I get is this (when I fun from command line):

How strange. articlebot.php requires functions_search.php only if you have the similar thread feature enabled, so that similar threads are generated for the threads.

Your error would probably disappear if you commented the fetch_similar_threads() function call in articlebot.php, like so:

PHP Code:

// $similarthreads = fetch_similar_threads($article['title']); 


I'll make a modification to that hack that allows you to toggle whether to grab similar threads per RSS entry (so you can disable it for RSS files that give errors).

I mean in addition to adding the URL and the time limit and the fetch limit and initially skip options, add a field that the board admin can specify as prefix for the titles, like Poll: or Moved: or Sticky:, in this case [News] or [Blues]. Something that people can use to identify that it is an automated post, or for myself, use to parse out onto other pages.

BTW romeshomey, you should really edit previous posts rather than posting a stream of them.

yeah, I'll incorporate this feature.

Everytime I make an edit in my ACP to add or update a feed for my bot, I have to run the forums/articlebot/articlebot.php manually by loading the page before my feeds will start posting.

This isn't a bug, but just how it is. When you add an RSS feed, the "next post" time will be the time it was added, plus the interval in minutes. So you have to wait.

If you set the interval to 1 minute, then it should proceed automatically. I'm assuming you are using a cron job.

Thanks though, I'd love to get those tags either removed or working, either or. Let me know if or when you figure out how to remove or enable them

I must have forgot, but the code is currently using strip_tags() to remove basic HTML tags. Whether this removes XHTML or more extensive, I'm not sure. I'll look into a preg_replace() expression that will remove HTML tags.