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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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Installation Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory: abouttoday.php includes/class.csv.php includes/class_abouttoday.php includes/plugin_abouttoday.php includes/xml/bitfield_abouttoday.xml includes/xml/cpnav_abouttoday.xml admincp/abouttodayadmin.php From 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". If yes, what do you get when you open abouttoday.php? |
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westpointer-- I made some grave errors in my cURL substitution code that caused the feeds to work once, then stop. I've rewritten the cURL code a dozen or so times, but I can't get it to work again. If you could modify your code to allow cURL, it would be greatly appreciated. As it stands, I just don't have the capacity to make the cURL mod work.
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I Dont Think That A Lot Of People Are Aware Of The Power/potential Of Rss... I Do!! I Added This Hack To My Site... And I Love It.. My Members Are Going To Get A Kick Out Of It In The Morning When They Log On!!
I Have To Learn A Few Things About It... Such As Grouping The Various Rss Into Categories Like The Events... Either Way.. You Made A Great Hack Buddy And I Appreciate It.... Install?? Absolutely!! |
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Thanks, Westpointer for this fantastic stuff.
How can manage, that letters as "ä", "ö" in the German language are written as those? |
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I first uploaded the individual files to the forum directory (not the whole folders). I uploaded the product via teh admin CP. I then refreshed the browser and nothing happened, there was no new title on the left. So then i i deleted all or most of the individual files in the forum directory. I then uploaded all the files again BUT this time i uploads the WHOLE 'includes' folder as it was in the zip file, so i didnt take the files out individually to upload as to the forums directory. I then closed and re-opened the browser and the 'AboutToday' title was there on the left I did the same with the adminCP folder, uploaded that too Im not actually sure if the second procedure is what you meant (by uploading the whole folder). Please tell me if this is correct? Thanks. |
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Also, in that includes folder in the forum directory, the total file and folder count has come to 81. I think this is the result of an successful install?
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