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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site! · **Released**: 02-05-2006

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.

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!!
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.

Click Install!
Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks!

CyberRanger · #**582** 10-05-2006, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gasxtreme

I have this modification installed, and it hasn't updated since August 29, 2006..... Any ideas?

Here is the site: http://www.kampfgruppe.us/abouttoday.php?do=rss
Here is a feed: http://www.historychannel.com/global...ory=worldwarii

thanks
-steve

Hmmm ... the feed looks good. Can you pm me an admin login and password? I'll check it out for you.

CyberRanger · #**583** 10-06-2006, 06:51 PM

CyberRanger = WestPointer

Bringing my on-line persons into one person.

Lionel · #**584** 10-06-2006, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberRanger

Where did you place the str_replace and what was the command?

PHP Code:


			
$dtodayx = "<ul class='smallfont'>".iif($title == '',$rss_channel["TITLE"],$title) ."&nbsp;<a href='".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/abouttoday.php?do=rss&amp;id=".$rssid."'>+</a>";

$dtodayx = str_replace('<img','<img style="padding-right:10px;"',$dtodayx);

          }

          else

          {

           $dtodayx = "<ul class='smallfont'><a href='".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/abouttoday.php?do=rss&amp;id=".$rssid."'>".iif($title == '',$rss_channel["TITLE"],$title) .  "</a>";

$dtodayx = str_replace('<img','<img style="padding-right:10px;"',$dtodayx);

PHP Code:


			
$dmainx .= "<tr valign="top"><td class="alt1" valign="top" align="left" width="100%"><ul><li><a href="" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"] . "" target="_blank">" .$rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"]. "</a>".$talkitlink; 

$dmainx = str_replace('<img','<img style="padding-right:10px;"',$dmainx);       } 

       else

       {

       $dmainx .= $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"];

$dmainx = str_replace('<img','<img style="padding-right:10px;"',$dmainx);      }

reteep · #**585** 10-09-2006, 08:45 AM

Hi there,

at first: great plugin!

I got one question: Is it possible to show all feed postings in $myfeeds without dividing them into an additional <td>?

Example:
- rss1feed item
- rss2feed item
- rss1feed item
- rss3feed item

All in one table and one table column sorted by date. If it's possible, what part of the code do I have to change to prevent the forming of an additional column?

Thanks a lot!

Mysticales · #**586** 10-17-2006, 08:27 AM

So how is it coming with the feed max length per article thing?

CyberRanger · #**587** 10-25-2006, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mysticales

So how is it coming with the feed max length per article thing?

serious updates next week.... scout's honor!

tansu · #**588** 10-25-2006, 11:15 PM

is not working on 3.6.2?
There is nothing in admincp

CyberRanger · #**589** 10-25-2006, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tansu

is not working on 3.6.2?
There is nothing in admincp

Works get in 3.6.2. Make sure you've uploaded all the files properly and refresh your admincp.

If you need help, PM me your site url with an admin username and password.

tansu · #**590** 10-25-2006, 11:38 PM

Sorry for the interrupt..
I re-upload all files and xml's did not ask me to overwrite, so I put them in a wrong place I think in the first place..
Thanks..

reteep · #**591** 10-26-2006, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberRanger

serious updates next week.... scout's honor!

Cool, looking forward to it =)

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