[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

[VaaKo]

anyone found the fix to the duplicated posts?

[Totti]

ho mate,

does this mean that if my news-script supports rss i can automatically create threads with this news inside with this extension?

[NxTek]

Can anyone get http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml working?

[hillbilly_jim]

Originally Posted by NxTek

Can anyone get http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml working?

http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel 
Items RSS Tag Name: item 
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title 
Available RSS Post Construct Tags 
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[category]}
{XML[pubDate]}

This worked for me.

[deathemperor]

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.

the problem is I have

CURL enabled

curl
CURL support 	enabled
CURL Information 	libcurl/7.13.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2 libidn/0.5.13

but still I can't add ress feed url.

perhaps the author can answer this.

[NxTek]

Originally Posted by hillbilly_jim

http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/index.xml
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel 
Items RSS Tag Name: item 
Thread Title RSS Tag Name Choose one of the following: title 
Available RSS Post Construct Tags 
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}
{XML[guid]}
{XML[category]}
{XML[pubDate]}

This worked for me.

Yeah that's what I have except for my Construct Tags are
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}

but it doesn't pull any new items

[hillbilly_jim]

Originally Posted by NxTek

Yeah that's what I have except for my Construct Tags are
{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}

but it doesn't pull any new items

Did you go to Control Forum feed and update? It is the cleanest looking feed I have found I ddnt have any improper html items or anything. The cron job even pulled the feeds for me this morning.

[jluerken]

Hi, I installed this hack and had a small problem.

The NEW POSTS option from the navbar shows a long list with the posts from my RSS forum. I do not want this cause I only want message from users and not from RSS bots there.

I asked Andreas (KirbyDE) if he has an idea and he had (as always ).

I want to share his solution with you.
@Zero Tolerance, maybe you can place this in the install description or the first post

Open your Plugin Manager and add a new Plugin (NOT Product)
Entry point is:
search_getnew_start
Code is:

PHP Code:

 $vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= (($vbulletin->GPC['exclude']) ? ',X' : 'X'); 


where X is the forumid from the forum you want to exclude from the NEW POSTS search.

If you want to thank someone please thank Andreas.
He is my new vB guru

[eoc_Jason]

If you didn't want to make it a plugin, I believe you could modify your navbar and add the &exclude=x,y,z in the URL for it.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

If you didn't want to make it a plugin, I believe you could modify your navbar and add the &exclude=x,y,z in the URL for it.

...but then you have to do it for every style.
With a plugin you only need to do it once