[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

[Celtic_Mad]

Originally Posted by garrynewman

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

Anyone? This is really annoying when it posts the same thing over and over again!

[eoc_Jason]

I too can not get slashdot to work, so I'm digging through to code to try and fix it.

Also, for titles I noticed that it decodes things like quotation marks instead of leaving them alone, then you get a messed up thread subject.

EDIT - Found the problem with slashdot. The "channel" tag opens & closes before the item tags. Thus it is not really a parent for it and is why the code will not parse it properly.

[VaaKo]

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

what's wrong?!

[VaaKo]

anyone care to tell me what could the problem be?
please!

[hillbilly_jim]

http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel 
Items RSS Tag Name: item 
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Available RSS Post Construct Tags 
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[pubDate]}

Try this it works for me.

[TyleR]

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

anyone ever had a feed update from cron yet?

didnt work for the first few days, but has been working lately..only "bug" per-say is that characters are being displayed awkward..such as: WP: Lawmaker’s Abramoff ties under scrutiny

it sometimes does it in the description aswell.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

once I again.... tons of repeat questions....

PLEASE check this post:
OVERVIEW OF BUGS AND PROBLEMS
here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=342
post # 342

I'll try to keep it updated with the most common questions/problems.

That said....
in future maybe ppl could just link to that post for replies to common questions.

No, that'a not self-promotion, I don't get anything out of it besides not having to repeat myself and read the same questions over and over again.

lata.

[VaaKo]

GrendelKhan{TSU, I heard you were facing the same problem as I am now, did you fix it?

[TyleR]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

once I again.... tons of repeat questions....

PLEASE check this post:
OVERVIEW OF BUGS AND PROBLEMS
here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=342
post # 342

I'll try to keep it updated with the most common questions/problems.

That said....
in future maybe ppl could just link to that post for replies to common questions.

No, that'a not self-promotion, I don't get anything out of it besides not having to repeat myself and read the same questions over and over again.

lata.

i've already tried that..it still doesnt parse it.

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

OVERVIEW OF BUGS AND PROBLEMS
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=342
post # 342

Thanx my man, i've been following this thread as much as you have, i thankyou for your help and collection of bugs and posts which certainly have helped when tracking down a problem, cheers for that... lets hope the dupe problem and my cron not updating problem all gets sorted soon, it's a great hack but a pity about these annoying bugs...anyways i'll keep on waiting

-b6