[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[nuclei]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

upgraded, works a treat like it always has done.
only thing is, its working a little TOO good.

as some of the feeds im grabbing arent updated as much as some of the others, im now getting shed loads of duplicates all over my board...

is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???

i would suggest having it store all news entries in a seperate mysql table with a unique key on the title. that would keep you from getting all the dupes.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

Originally Posted by nuclei

i would suggest having it store all news entries in a seperate mysql table with a unique key on the title. that would keep you from getting all the dupes.

that sounds convincing..unfortunatley u might as well ask me to perform brain surgery mate...i have no idea what that means..lmao

[nuclei]

it was more an idea for Zero Tolerance to integrate into the next update maybe

[Dream]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

im being over run by duplicate threads!!!!!

me too, thought the RSS was coming with duplicate entries

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

anyone have any clue where to start tracking down this error?

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:

Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

And I POSITIVE its not the feed. I've tried it many feeds, the one posted here and with the auto detect.

[xug]

The Dupe is a huge problem, everything working fine finally, like the scheduled task i finally got it working late last night and this morning I see a quadruple amount of dupes.

Please solve this asap, maybe the above suggestion is not that bad at all to put a unique key in a table

Please help us as soon as possible.

Still Thumbs up to this hack.

[FASherman]

Some feeds insert HTML into their feeds, things such as images and the like.

Can we have an option to strip html from a feed?

[Dream]

Id like to see this support atom feeds :P

[rinkrat]

I love the html in the feeds, I'm getting pictures and everything.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

any update on the "dupe" problem???