[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

[csidlernet]

cool i'm gonna play around with it

[Kirk Y]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025</a>

Opt out whichever forum you're posting the feeds into.

[NuclioN]

Thank you acidburn Very usefull!

[Kirk Y]

Yup, anytime.

[subnet_rx]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

this is confusing to me but i added the info then update and got

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

yeah nevermind that it was an error with my ffeed info :P works perfect as usual Clicks install

What causes this, I'm getting the same error.

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

What causes this, I'm getting the same error.

Hey man I got that same error as well...I wonder if it has anything to do with vb 3.5 since this is shown working with a previous RC version??

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

[Vizionz]

its a feed error it pretty much means your calling something in the feed that isnt there

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

its a feed error it pretty much means your calling something in the feed that isnt there

Ummm ok what does that mean?

How can I find out what it is?

[dieselpowered]

Ok I just tried another feed from my other vBulletin board and I am still getting this error:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

[Vizionz]

means when your setting up the feed you have to make sure when your calling the feed that it actually has the fields your trying to recieve.

post what your putting in as a rss feed including the link to the feed