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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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Old 05-16-2007, 06:47 PM
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abouttoday is having trouble reading from this site: http://rss.crash.net/crash_18.xml. Let me look into it some more. For now, I disabled that feed on your site.

edit: nope, I was wrong. It's having trouble with anything from http://rss.crash.net/ trying to figure out how to make it work.
I think I figured out what you need to do. One of your feeds (for example) is http://rss.crash.net/crash_18.xml. If you enter that url, it brings up http://rss1.mediafed.com/feed/crash/BRITISH_SUPERBIKES. If you enter THAT url (in the abouttoday rss setup) as the url for your feed, it works!

I've fixed the three feeds you had. All is well!
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thanks much :up:
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I had this working fine before, but in the last several weeks its started getting 406 errors when I click on the "Talk About It" link. I don't believe I've changed anything.

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This error (HTTP 406 Not Acceptable) means that Internet Explorer was able to receive information from the website you visited, but the information was not in a format that Internet Explorer can display.
And then on one of the feeds, I get a different error when clicking the Talk About It link.

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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forums/abouttoday.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Here is a link to the site... any ideas would be appreciated?
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<a href="http://www.northeastfoto.com/forums/abouttoday.php?do=rss" target="_blank">http://www.northeastfoto.com/forums/...day.php?do=rss</a>
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I had this working fine before, but in the last several weeks its started getting 406 errors when I click on the "Talk About It" link. I don't believe I've changed anything.



And then on one of the feeds, I get a different error when clicking the Talk About It link.



Here is a link to the site... any ideas would be appreciated?
Can you PM me a user account I can use to see what happens when I try to "Talk About It"
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PM Sent.
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I had this on my old site and im just about to install on www.warcraftforums.co.uk - its an awesome hack, It saves me so much time, I can quickly and easily update the forums when I dont have a lot of time.

Thank you!
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Genius mod

However is there any way to make more $myfeeds $myfeeds1 $myfeeds2 $myfeeds3 $myfeeds4 $myfeeds5 and so on ?


So my forum is set up with difrent skin colors based on Categorys
I want seperate rss sidebars for every skin.

$myfeeds
$myfeeds1
$myfeeds2
$myfeeds3
$myfeeds4
$myfeeds5
$myfeeds6
$myfeeds7
$myfeeds8
$myfeeds9
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I had this working fine before, but in the last several weeks its started getting 406 errors when I click on the "Talk About It" link. I don't believe I've changed anything.



And then on one of the feeds, I get a different error when clicking the Talk About It link.



Here is a link to the site... any ideas would be appreciated?
Sorry for the delay. I can get some of the feeds to create threads (like this one: http://www.northeastfoto.com/forums/...333#post100333) but others won't, although they do on my test site.

Can you give the account you PM'ed me access to the admincp?

Thx!

BTW - I love how you've incorporated the AboutToday feeds on your homepage. You have a very nice looking site.
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Sure... what things will you need access to in the AdminCP... just trying to save a step.
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