[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

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

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

But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

[monkeyhead]

*fixed*

[FASherman]

Another suggestion...

I'd like to be able to limit the number of posts, regardless of how many feed items are new.

For instance, even if 15 items are new, I only want to post the 3 newest.

[xug]

Originally Posted by FASherman

But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

correct.

Any luck Zero with the Dupe problem.

[berberber]

what would be the parent tag for : http://www.afp.com/francais/rss/stories.xml

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by FASherman

But that requires you to have HTML enabled. I'd rather gnaw off my arm than open up that security hole, so this really should have an option to strip htlm tags from the feed.

I feel your pain, I just put set my Blogs to be posted in a special forum that allowed HTML, but disallowed the capability of user posts.

[berberber]

Currently because of the dupe problem, i execute the script from time to time my self, so i can control the output, and the double posts, would be nice, if it was improved, but ok so too.

Thanks for the mod

[Bobby S]

I love this work. Thank you

The only minor problem I have is that

http://news.google.co.uk/news?num=10...ian&output=rss isnae recognised as valid rss. I'm sure I'll work it out given time.

[KingSpade]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

When I select Run Now in the Scheduled Tasks for RSS Feeds Update, I get this error:

RSS Feeds Update
 
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/socom/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 4240

Edit: Also... I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but a lot of times the feeds posted have html in them... I'd like the html displayed properly, but I don't want to turn HTML on in the Forum for all members to use. Is there anyway the HTML can be allowed only for Administrators, as I've set my Username as the one that's posting the RSS Feeds?

Same problem here, any idea how to fix this?

[peterska2]

/me clicks install.

very nicely done. works a treat.