[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

[Cyburbia]

I'll let you now how it works. I've been waiting forward to such an extension, checking every day to see is an RSS feed aggregator has arrived yet.

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

[bigcurt]

Sup ZT, I know you have to be busy man and I was looking for an alternative to Article bot and I believe I found it, but because of my board I do not have 3.X installed yet..so is there anyway you can do me ( and others ) a favor and port this over to 3.0.X??

~Curt

[Zero Tolerance]

I''ve got a request that one thing be changed - "RSS Forum Feeds" control panel lins should be BELOW "vBulletin Options", not at the very top.

Suggest that to vB, thats how they built the cp nav system to work, nothing i can do about it i'm afraid.

Sup ZT, I know you have to be busy man and I was looking for an alternative to Article bot and I believe I found it, but because of my board I do not have 3.X installed yet..so is there anyway you can do me ( and others ) a favor and port this over to 3.0.X??


~Curt

Unfortunatly i cannot do this bigcurt, i will be updating this when i get time, and it would just be a pain to update it for both versions really, and cause double the support/double the time.

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[Dream]

damn good thanks

would be nice if it parsed urls to [ url ] when posting, im getting big urls using the link inside the post

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally Posted by Dream

damn good thanks

would be nice if it parsed urls to [ url ] when posting, im getting big urls using the link inside the post

I'll be including a str_replace/preg_replace replacement options per feed in v2, and also global replacements (some feeds use invalid chars/html)

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[Dream]

isnt that just a parsing option when posting a new message with the object? its nothing fancy just the standard behavior when posting a message

[john1744]

How do I set up the cron job? This is badass btw Zero. Mucho gracias. ^__^

[Darth Gill]

Originally Posted by john1744

How do I set up the cron job? This is badass btw Zero. Mucho gracias. ^__^

I have the same question. I tried setting it up, but I got a fatal error when I tried to run it.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

AWESOME!!

<< wants to install!! but also
doesn't know how to "add a cron job" :ermm:

can some tell me how? (sorry for the n00bifiedness)

Originally Posted by Boofo

Ahh, but I need a specialized one dealing with Fathers' Rights.

here you go....
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr...F-8&output=rss

for reference......
just go to google news....search for what you want... the results themselves are an RSS feed (auto RSS detectors---like mathox has one built into the browswer itself) will generate the link you need (and/or there is a RSS link for the results page on the lower left. click that and copy the url).

[john1744]

Ah, I think a cron job is just a scheduled task. At least it looks the exact same as his description.