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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!
Version: 2.0.4, by CyberRanger CyberRanger is offline
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Version: 3.5.4 Rating:
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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Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks!

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Hi, I have been using RSS feed for 2 months, but since 8-17 my RSS feeds stopped and I cant figure out why, can someone help me please? I had added about 5 RSS feeds or so, and they all were working daily, posting new RSS feeds to a Forum section I set so that all the RSS feeds are posted under that Forum category section. You can see it here: http://www.puregraffiti.com/graffiti-space/index.php

Thanks in advance
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Hi, I have been using RSS feed for 2 months, but since 8-17 my RSS feeds stopped and I cant figure out why, can someone help me please? I had added about 5 RSS feeds or so, and they all were working daily, posting new RSS feeds to a Forum section I set so that all the RSS feeds are posted under that Forum category section. You can see it here: http://www.puregraffiti.com/graffiti-space/index.php

Thanks in advance
I suspect you are victim to what is hitting a lot of others - CNN is screwing with its feeds!

For example, "Top Stories" (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss) works correctly, outputing the XML. Here's a little pic of how the page looks. That's what one would expect.


But, "Space" (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_space.rss) is messed up, linking to Feedburner instead of outputing the XML.

Here's how the "Space" page looks:


I've sent CNN an email asking about this. I'll post any response I get.
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I suspect you are victim to what is hitting a lot of others - CNN is screwing with its feeds!

For example, "Top Stories" (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss) works correctly, outputing the XML. Here's a little pic of how the page looks. That's what one would expect.


But, "Space" (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_space.rss) is messed up, linking to Feedburner instead of outputing the XML.

Here's how the "Space" page looks:


I've sent CNN an email asking about this. I'll post any response I get.
so to fix this i must remove the CNN RSS feeds?

thanks
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so to fix this i must remove the CNN RSS feeds?

thanks
:angry: Yes, until CNN gets the feeds back to how they should be displaying that's the only option.
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ok thanks
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Thank you for this great hack. However, I do have one problem after installation. The RSS feed will now show in my forum home in the Today's Events category.



I would love to fix this problem or perhaps remove it. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you
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Thank you for this great hack. However, I do have one problem after installation. The RSS feed will now show in my forum home in the Today's Events category.

I would love to fix this problem or perhaps remove it. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you
In the admincp -> AboutToday -> Settings, change 'Display RSS Feeds in "Today's Events"?' to "No".
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OMGGG thank you soo much!
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I agree! I have a fix in mind for that.
Hi westpointer

It's great to see that you will adjust it. Thank you for your efforts!
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Well, it is simple! I really need to get in here and clean up my code some. For now, to fix this until I can release a full update, do this:

In abouttoday.php

FIND (around line 1748):
PHP Code:
$dmain .= "<br /><br /><table width="".$stylevar['tablewidth'].""> 
 <tr align="center"> 
        <td class="thead" width="100%">"
.$dl->titlerss."</td></tr></table>"
REPLACE with (remove the breaks):
PHP Code:
$dmain .= "<table width="".$stylevar['tablewidth'].""> 
 <tr align="center"> 
        <td class="thead" width="100%">"
.$dl->titlerss."</td></tr></table>"
I should have all this in templates and will in the next version.
Hello,

Great, I removed the 2 <br>'s and looks better.

Thank You,

Nuguru
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