[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

[Gizmo5h1t3]

Originally Posted by yitzklein

I need help? I'm getting duplicate threads.

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

[yitzklein]

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

Is this problem only with version 3.5, or the same problem was with the earlier version.

[trancetopia]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

I have to dissagree there. It will not accept any url I try. Getting this to work is on the back burner for me now but I would like to find out what is causing the error.

The dupe issue shouldn't be a problem to fix but I can't get to the stage where I can test the import and haven't trawled through the code for being lazy and hoping someone had a quick answer. Maybe not.

I think it's now time for me to write my own rss reader as my first hack for vB. I feel a project coming on

[thetoolman]

hi,
i am having trouble.. it news articles are not posting themselves. instead i have to click on update feed manually for them to update. is there anyway i can fix this?

[MRGTB]

is there a version of this hack for vB3.0.8 or the 3 series?

[Kirk Y]

Has anyone figured a way to parse all the html into bbcode?

[Vierie]

I don't suppose, there is a way to insert rdf feeds with that?

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

is there a version of this hack for vB3.0.8 or the 3 series?

The most popular one for the 3.0.x is Cinq's vBArticles

[Carl Anderson]

Originally Posted by hardgainer

Can you clarify this just a little more please?

Do you modify the NavBar template for this or an actual file?

Thanks,

Yes you can modify the navbar template....

I also found a hack that seem to do this for you - I would perfer to change my navbar though... here is the hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025

[skizzy203]

fixed... i goofed.

sorry