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Version: 2.0.4, by CyberRanger CyberRanger is offline
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Released: 02-05-2006 Last Update: 08-01-2006 Installs: 249
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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.
  1. An RSS Reader system where the admin can enter RSS feeds that will then be displayed on the page. RSS feeds can be set to AUTOMATICALLY create threads or be set so that users can easily create a thread from a feed.. Feeds can be read via fopen or cURL.





    The RSS Feeds are fully intergrated with vbAdvanced and could actually be placed anywhere you want!!
  2. A database system that can hold unlimited categories of "AboutToday" events. For example, you could have a history category (like a Today in History) with sub-categories for different eras in history. Or, you could have a daily joke or software tip of the day, etc.

    The "Add Event" feature is intended to help you if you want for example - Sports: Today in History. With the vb calendar, you cannot have categories and you are restricted with how far back the dates can go.




    So with the "Add Event" feature, you could have a category tree like:
    • Hockey
      • Professional
      • College
      • High School
    • Football
      • American Football
      • The Rest of the World (Soccer)
    • Baseball

    with the normal calendar feature, you cannot have categories. And with "Add Event" you can have any date. So, if you want an event like "Jan 1, 132 B.C. - the first ball was invented", you can do that. But, that isn't possible in the normal calendar. Also, the events in "Add Event" are fully searchable.

Installation

Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory:
abouttoday.php
includes/class.csv.php
includes/class_abouttoday.php
includes/cron/cron_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".

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.

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Old 02-06-2006, 10:54 PM
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I have installed this....

It wont save the description though.......
I fill in all the details, including a description...
Add Event
and it deletes the descriptin and says Fields marked in RED must be filled in!
and the descriptin is in red...of course cause its frigging deleted it lol...

Also the catergories in the catergoy tree aint clickable???

Whats ya thoughts please.......
I can't check the description problem right now but will as soon as possible.
The categories in the tree become clickable if that category has events in it ... which, with your problem above, explains why you haven't seen one clickable yet. :classic:
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It wont save the description though.......
I fill in all the details, including a description...
Add Event
and it deletes the descriptin and says Fields marked in RED must be filled in!
and the descriptin is in red...of course cause its frigging deleted it lol...

Yea, have same issue.

Everything else seems to work just fine tho.
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Old 02-07-2006, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by bashy
I have installed this....

It wont save the description though.......
I fill in all the details, including a description...
Add Event
and it deletes the descriptin and says Fields marked in RED must be filled in!
and the descriptin is in red...of course cause its frigging deleted it lol...

Also the catergories in the catergoy tree aint clickable???

Whats ya thoughts please.......
Can you load the attached xml file to replace the existing product and let me know if that fixes the problem?

Also, if you use Firefox, do you have the problem?

Thanks!
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Can you make it wprk with vBAdvanced CMS?
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I have installed this....

It wont save the description though.......
I fill in all the details, including a description...
Add Event
and it deletes the descriptin and says Fields marked in RED must be filled in!
and the descriptin is in red...of course cause its frigging deleted it lol...

Also the catergories in the catergoy tree aint clickable???

Whats ya thoughts please.......
westpointer, did you use $vbulletin->clean-> gpc for this item?
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Hi i use IE and all is well with that update..

Thanks alot

Have fun

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Can you load the attached xml file to replace the existing product and let me know if that fixes the problem?

Also, if you use Firefox, do you have the problem?

Thanks!
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Havnt gotten one RSS Feed in. Installed it lastnite at 8PM EST.. so figured i would get some by now. Using a couple of Yahoo Feeds..

I miss something?
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Btw, your updated corrected the issue. Using FF 1.5.01
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Havnt gotten one RSS Feed in. Installed it lastnite at 8PM EST.. so figured i would get some by now. Using a couple of Yahoo Feeds..

I miss something?
Hmm ... I think I know why. I need to make a little fix. Until then, call up http://www.yoursite.com/forums/abouttoday.php?do=rss. That should kick off your feeds.

Thanks for the feedback on the description fix. I'm glad that worked!
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westpointer, did you use $vbulletin->clean-> gpc for this item?
No, but I reckon I should. I'm using:

PHP Code:
$_POST['message'] = strip_tags($_POST['message']);
    $_POST['message'] = convert_url_to_bbcode($_POST['message']); 
and then using
PHP Code:
$db->sql_prepare($_POST['message']) 
when doing an insert or update. Does clean do more?
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