[memobug]

I suggest you both start with a feed that is known to work. There are quite a few variables and if you try to solve everything at once you might not succeed.

Here's one that works for me:

http://www.bonsai-today.com/rss/bonsai-today-rss.html

2. Nothing will happen unless the Article Bot is enabled and associated with a user. Did you create a user and assign the article bot to a user?

Advanced Settings - Leave all that regex stuff blank for now.

3. Did you configure the RSS Feed?

Mine for the feed listed above is

ID:1
http://www.bonsai-today.com/rss/bonsai-today-rss.html
Forum: General - choose your own forum
Icon ID: 1
RSS Label: [Bonsai-Today]
Post Interval: 1500 ***See note below***
Fetch Limit: 1
# Skip: 0
Build Similar Thread: Yes
Skip articles that don't contain descriptions: Yes
Enabled: Yes
Advanced Stuff: All Blank

***Nothing will happen until the 1500 minutes elapse, so set it to some low value for testing, like 60 minutes or 5 minutes if you're impatient

Set up your cron. I am using Cpanel X with Cron Jobs:

Click the Cron Jobs icon and choose Standard.

Command to run:

php /home/~user/public_html/forum/articlebot/articlebot.php

You need your full, absolute path here. My path won't work for you.

Minutes: 0
Hour(s): Every Hour
Day(s): Every Day
Month(s): Every Month
Weekday(s) Every weekday

You won't get any posting if

*you use a bad feed
*mess up on the cron path or don't have any cron
*don't attach a feed to a robot
*don't attach a robot to a userid
*set too long a time period
*choose the wrong forum for posting

Summary: Get it working with a known good RSS first, then you can experiment with others.

Regards,

Matt