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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!
Developer Last Online: Jan 2015
What is AboutToday?
AboutToday provides a central place to bring daily items of interest to your forum visitors. It includes two main components: an RSS Reader System and Local Events database System. Please NOTE: This mod has been modified for vb ver 3.6.4. It should work on vb ver 3.5.4 and 3.6.x.
Installation Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory: abouttoday.phpFrom the admincp, import the product file product-abouttoday.xml (Manage Products - Add/Import Product). REFRESH your admincp window. You should now see a listing in the left column of the admincp for "AboutToday". Getting Started NOTE - if this is a new install, a Yahoo RSS Feed and CNN Entertainment Feed have been automatically added to give you a feel for how the product looks. If you plan to use the RSS Feeds: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - RSS Feeds. Add an RSS Feed. 2. From the admincp, select Usergroups - Usergroup Manager. Add permissions so the Administrator group can use the product. 3. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. 4. If you want the feeds to AUTOMATICALLY create threads, go to admincp - abouttoday - settings. There you must set the userid of the account to use to create the thread. Then, edit the RSS Feed with the forumid of where the threads for that feed should be created! If you plan to create your own "today in history" type of database: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - Categories. Add a category. 2. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. "Add" your first event to the category you have created! Version Status I've tested this product extensively but ... use this totally at your own risk! Credits I learned a lot about how to code this and used a lot of the code from what Ron1n did with ecDownloads. What I've learned from his code while helping to support ecDownloads has been invaluable. Sites Using this Product Visit www.armchairgeneral.com to see this product in action. Click Install! Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks! Show Your Support
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Right now, you can't easily do that. But Paul M helped me with a coding issue that I didn't understand. Next week, I should be cranking out a revision that will make that possible. |
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This is possibly one of the best mods I've used. Thanks again!
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This may have been answered before but is their a way to get it to display on the right side of the forums instead of the bottom?
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In the admincp -> AboutToday -> Settings, set "Allow $myfeedsdetail to display?" to "Yes". Now, under AboutToday -> RSS Feeds, edit the feed you are interested in displaying, setting "Include this Feed in $myfeedsdetail variable?" to "Yes". Place the attached testme.php file in your forums directory. Done! (CodeRed - in your situation, I turned off "Use RSS image?" for the feed you wanted. I think it looks better that way. You may want to try that too) |
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********************************************** I'm going to make some of the feed summaries show on one forum under the navbar. I think that would be a good example to help everyone realize some of what they can do with this mod. The end result is going to be this. I've selected two feeds to show at the top of the Main Forum using the $myfeeds variable: On other forums, we'd won't see the feeds: Here are the steps:
Done! ALSO - if you don't want the feeds at the bottom set admicn -> AboutToday -> Settings, "Display RSS Feeds in "Today's Events"?" to "No". |
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thanks a ton for the info CR.... unfortunately its not quite working for me... im guessing the reason may be that im still using VB 3.5.1... ugh. Thanks a ton for your help regardless and I hope to get updated soon and give it another try... EDIT: the testme.php page loads entirely with the correct header, footer, title etc its just that its not displaying the $myfeedsdetail information |
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PM me a vb admin login and password for your site and I'll check it out. Probably just need a little tweak.
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you got mail
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thanks a ton for your help... it works great now!!!!
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