New Posting Features - RSS items as posts

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6
DESCRIPTION: RSS items are added as the posts of the choosen topic.
AUTHOR and IDEA: zCarot (www.zcarot.com)
INSTALLATION TIME: 2-5 minutes
DIFFICULTY: average

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

--------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and 4.1 can import RSS elements as threads and announcements.
This mod allows you to import them as messages as well!
It can be convenient for RSS with the important information which doesn't required to be discussed.

----------------------------------- REMARKS -----------------------------------

If the thread ID does not set, than the name of RSS feed will be the used as title of the topic.
If the topic still does not exist in the specified forum, it will be created with first item of RSS.
Practically all adjustments for display of RSS items as topics will influence on their display as posts.

---------------------------- INSTALL & UPGRADE ----------------------------

See at readme.txt

------------------------------------ HISTORY -----------------------------------

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

---------------------------------- SCREENSHOTS -----------------------------------
Standard version
1 element = 1 thread:
Attachment 79188

My version.
1 rss feed = 1 thread:
Attachment 79189
1 element = 1 post:
Attachment 79190


YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

[drsli]

I hope I installed it properly. I performed all the subsequent edits from the readme and installed the xml.
I checked the options "Merge many RSS items to one post" and "Merge with old post" and forced the post to keep the old dateline.
The initial sticky thread is created accordingly. A little issue: the title of the first entry doesn´t catch the markup - it´s always plain text.

There is a double-entry to find furthermore.

The second automatic entry with 6 items is always rejected by the database-system with the following error-message:

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '
1253460094,
'News was added',
'CNN corresponde' at line 8
Error Number : 1064

Maybe I edited the php-files not correctly?

[segwayon]

Originally Posted by zCarot

cafenetland

This hack just allows you to post items of RSS feed as posts of the thread. By default you can post items of RSS feed as announcements or threads of the forum.

This hack does not change anything else.

P.S. If you want to get all content from RSS feed of vBulletin forums then you can try to add "&fulldesc=1" to the end of the link.
For example:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/exter...SS2&forumids=1&fulldesc=1

Where would this edit happen?

[segwayon]

Question related to RRS feeds and VB. I use a Google news source, but the RSS stories each come with this line:

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />

Is there a way to fix that in the AdminCP?

[AndrewRich]

I had to completely re-install this mod after upgrading to 3.8.3 PL1. After reinstalling, still works fine.

[Clayton]

would this work in 3.6 .. please?

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">Clayton

Yep.
3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x</font>

[Clayton]

Thank you .. will delve a little deeper shortly

Thanks

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by zCarot

Clayton

Yep.
3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x

I'm not sure if you've installed vB4 yet, but it also seems to work on there also. (I've just done limited testing of it on my test board, but it worked.)

[metrika]

I still dont know what it does

[Clayton]

metrika .. instead of creating a new thread for each rss post, it places the rss posts in to one thread

so if you have a subject thread called Life in Honk Kong and your rss feed is from Life in Hong Kong the posts will all be made in the Life in Honk Kong thread and not many different threads

Hope this helps

C