[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

[Kirk Y]

You and every other person that's posted in this thread... almost, anyway.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

You and every other person that's posted in this thread... almost, anyway.

after reading that, i tested mine again...

working fine on 3.5 gold

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by jluerken

When I click on UPDATE FEED I get this:

PHP Code:

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 


Having this problem as well.

[hobbes747]

Me too. :cry: After my upgrade to Gold.

It's happening to feeds that have updates. The empty ones are fine.

Edit: It gives me an error, but it still posts the thread.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

Having this problem as well.

I have this and some rss feeds are posted several times.
I have one message in my board now nine times

I think this version has to much bugs to be used....

[berberber]

Just dont use it with cron jobs, just manually from time to time, its already good help

Bernhard

[offline]

I am having the same problem, even manually. Is there another mod that will do the same thing or a fix on the way?

Thanks!!

[Sanjiyan]

Does this support rdf feeds? I used to use Articlebot but now I have upgraded to 3.5 vB and now it wont work, so I thought I would try this.

But I cant get any settings when I point it to the RDF/RSS feed.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/feed/rdfdevblog.asp

[trilljester]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

It works on 3.5.0... just not for you and some other people. Because it works fine on mine and apparently on Gizmo's.

Well, it works on mine for 1 of my feeds, but fails on another, where on RC3, both of them worked fine. Something has changed enough in 3.5 Gold that causes problems. The error message is WAY too ambigious to tell us what the problem is.

The main difference between my feeds, is that one of them is has some ?'s and &'s in the URL, and the other one is a straight URL to the .xml file. I doubt that this would be the cause of the problem, but you never know.

[Kirk Y]

Yeah that would. As I said in an earlier post, this hack won't support dynamic URLs. It's gotta be a straight-forward .xml or .rss feed, not .php?feed=xml.