[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

[Az_Rael]

Testing now...so far this works great!!!

Thanx ZT! You da MAN

[dreck]

NIce...!

Installed on 3.5 no problems.
Created a new user & moderate posts in new forum. Allowed html code in the forum.
I used google Top News:

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title

NOw all I have to do is find the post where I saw something about keeping the news feed out of new posts search?

Hope someone will find away around the dupe soon. :ermm:

Thanks, dreck

*install*

[tommykilla]

I still keep getting duplicates.

[c0d3x]

me too!!

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

omg.. I so freaking happy.

I fiiiiinaaaaaallllllllyy got it to work!!!

it was all about the cURL. I even had to switch hosts (UGH!) to get a host that would allow me to enable cURL.

anyway.... haven't seen duplicates yet. but that is preferred to nothing at all for me.

[high]* GrendelKhan{TSU finally clicks INSTALL!!
[/high]

btw...3.5.0 Gold

[weaver]

The moderator tip didn't work for me. I had to set post flood to 0 in order to stop the duplicates. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that I'm missing but the new moderator account I created for the feeds was still limited by the post flood protection.

[Sanjiyan]

I have installed this hack, and I have it importing the html just fine, but I have a problem.

the RSS feed when it wants to start a new line does, something like following:

same test.<br><br>new line

The forum post it makes, ends up doing this:

same test.


new line

As you can see it does two line breaks. Any idea if I can get it to ignore the BR tag if it sees two of them?

You can see an example here: http://www.friendship7.co.uk/forum/s...ead.php?t=2389

Any ideas why it messes up when it comes to the <br><br> tags?

Or how do I get it to remove all the html tags from the rss feed?

[artonex]

Hey all im running vB3.5 Gold and ive added a feed.

I press the update button and i get 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

Does anyone know how to fix?

[BLazeD1]

Like the others, it is creating a lot of duplicate threads

[Sanjiyan]

Originally Posted by artonex

Hey all im running vB3.5 Gold and ive added a feed.

I press the update button and i get 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

Does anyone know how to fix?

I downloaded the lastest version and upgraded the hack, nd it fixed that errror for me.