[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

[Vizionz]

^ i would have to side with you on that as well

[popowich]

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

Hello,

What kind of problem causes the error above?
I am getting the same error from my first feed.

Also, does this plugin have a history?
I would like to avoid duplicate thread postings.
(I had major troubles with 3.0.x and the "Article Bot")

Here is the first RSS I'm trying to use with this plugin and vb3.5

http://www.pokergazette.com/trak/fclick.php?fid=rss
[
{XML[title]}

{XML[description]}

{XML[link]Read more... (this is wrapped by URL tags... can't post that for some reason...)

Thank you,

-Raymond @ WNYPoker.com

(You can see my feed posts in the Poker Articles and News forum)

[imported_-Sidekick-]

Is it possible to make it so the Thread Post RSS Construct allows HTML?

[subnet_rx]

I think I figured out the error. Try setting your flood post option to 0 seconds, meaning users do not have to wait to post again. I don't know why, but these automatic posts have to obey the same rules as a regular user.

[NxTek]

How does Inferno handle Podcasts (enclosure tags) and also images?

[popowich]

Great, thank worked, thanks!

Hopefully there is a history and it won't post another 80 threads in 15mins.

BTW, my time for all those threads is stuck at updated 1 minute ago.

Is that becuase there were too many for my forums to process correctly / fast enough?

-Raymond

[subnet_rx]

Originally Posted by popowich

Great, thank worked, thanks!

Hopefully there is a history and it won't post another 80 threads in 15mins.

BTW, my time for all those threads is stuck at updated 1 minute ago.

Is that becuase there were too many for my forums to process correctly / fast enough?

-Raymond

I think that's a cron job, so you may have to wait till it runs.

About the history, yes, it's working correctly.

[jluerken]

I don't want to change the flood option to make this working.
The flood option is a good way to prevent spam bots or stupid users from spamming the board.

Zero Tolerance, couldn't you update this hack?
I think its really useful but with the actual bugs I removed it. :-(

[Carl Anderson]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

I think I figured out the error. Try setting your flood post option to 0 seconds, meaning users do not have to wait to post again. I don't know why, but these automatic posts have to obey the same rules as a regular user.

Did not fix it on my site went through everything and set all to 0 and still get the same error........... even tried PM set to 0 = no go same error

[silurius]

Has anyone compared this against Article Bot? Have a preference for one over the other?