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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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Do you know how I can get the Item description to post when I click on "Talk About it"?
Currently, when I click on Talk about it, it only posts the link in a thead. Also is there an easy way to make it so that when a user clicks "Talk about it", it goes to an edit page with the RSS text in it to allow a user to write some of his/her own commentary and then click on Submit to post it? |
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Any news on this? I know there are a lot of people with low activity sites that would like to have the updates. Thanks |
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This looks like what i have been looking for. unfortunately i dont have the time to read 26 pages of posts. could someone (perhaps the programmer or someone using the program and follwing the thread) give me a summary of how the program is working and what other features/tweaks are available for it since the first page?
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Perfect hack here, however how about implementing a way to drop a list of RSS Feeds into the Admin area:
HTML Code:
[url]http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&output=rss&q=webmaster[/url] [url]http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=webmaster[/url] [url]http://search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?format=rss&FORM=RSNR&q=webmaster[/url] |
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I am loving this mod.
Is there a way to default to list view? |
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I cant seem to get the About Today area to show up in my AdminCP.
Edit: Got it working. i had a couple files in the wrong directory. sorry. |
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This thread needs a list of good feeds to add!
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This feed pulls news for "California" related subjects. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=California&output=rss This feed pulls news for "Texas" related subjects. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Texas&output=rss This feed pulls news for "Los angeles" using los+angeles http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=los+angeles&output=rss This feed pulls news for anything with the keywords: Damascus,hezbollah,israel,Lebanon,Beirut,Syria,Hai fa http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10...us&ie=UTF-8&q=Damascus,+OR+hezbollah,+OR+israel,+OR+Lebanon,+OR+ Beirut,+OR+Syria,+OR+Haifa&output=rss Those are examples of ways to edit the URL yourself and add the feeds without using the google site. For the 1st few you should use the google site until you get the hang of it. Use this link to create your own specific URL feeds. http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q= Google has the below RSS feeds to help get you started. Top Stories World U.S. Business Sci/Tech Sports Entertainment Health Most Popular |
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Could you please tell me which template I need to edit to put "About Today" "Add" "Manage Events" etc from the main page into a table so the links stand out more - and the same with the "Latest discussions" down the left hand side?
Thanks, Renada |
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