[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]

so, we have now established that the dupe posts are a problem...now can we mebbe establish if the author is gonna suppoort this, and if theres a workaround?

[Kirk Y]

If you scroll to the very top, you'll see that this hack is Unsupported. As I said earlier in this thread, I don't believe Zero supports any of his hacks.

[c0d3x]

so why release them? just don't release them if they're gonna not work...

i think that zero maybe is busy right now and can't give us support

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by c0d3x

so why release them? just don't release them if they're gonna not work...

i think that zero maybe is busy right now and can't give us support

Zero is a great mod creator, one of the best around for vb. But I would agree with you. If your gonna release stuff, at least supply support for a little while. If it had of been an old hack I would expect no suport, but it's not an old hack.

[Kirk Y]

This hack works perfectly for me: no duplicate threads, no funky characters (in addition to the ones already present on the actual blog), and no problems with HTML.

Don't diss the author just because you couldn't get the hack to work. I didn't say that Zero was a bad person for not supporting his hacks, only that he does just that, not support his hacks.

[NuclioN]

It's an amazing hack, good job. Altough not supported i've a question. Is it possible to have a rss feed from an atom xml ?

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

This hack works perfectly for me: no duplicate threads, no funky characters (in addition to the ones already present on the actual blog), and no problems with HTML.

Don't diss the author just because you couldn't get the hack to work. I didn't say that Zero was a bad person for not supporting his hacks, only that he does just that, not support his hacks.

If that's a reply to me, I'm not dishing the author. I have installed many of Zero's hacks and use his Welcome Panel now. I supose if people complain about the suport, like you said it is advertised before they install it. That support is not there as backup.

[Kirk Y]

I was mainly talking to c0d3x. He asked what the point was in distributing a hack that didn't work with no support.

[Moya]

I install and set up everything but it doesn't do anything on my board. It doesn't pull in any news even though I run the cron job manually.

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

Great script - really. Unfortunately, my users HATE it. :disappointed: Why? Some have the "new posts" url bookmarked, and now they're seeing RSS feed posts mixed in there. I wonder if there's a way to set up a subforum where new posts, basically the RSS feeds, won't show up in the "new posts" search.

Same here. Is there a way to get the output out of the new post search?