[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

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by NxTek

Primarily the enclosure tag bug, but also duplicates and others listed on https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=342

Sorry to say NxTek but I am not using RSS Feeds containing Video or Sound Files.

btw. this is not the meaning of RSS.
Its like using email for ftpying files

You can give this one a try: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...wpost&t=100269

[TrickyD]

Could someone offer me some assistance in getting the following feed working?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nfl/news

Originally Posted by error

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/nfl/news" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here.

Thanks in advance.

[mindfrost82]

For some reason, some of my RSS feeds imports the articles more than once.

They both seem to import the articles everytime it updates:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/news

http://www.broadbandreports.com/rss20.xml

I'm not sure why though.

[Mr. Tech]

Hey! Great script!

Is it possible to stop the RSS feeds from showing up in the new posts page?

[rWorld]

I was able to install it, but I can't get it to work. How do I get rid of it? I can't find any removal instructions.
Do I just delete the folder and remove the scheduled task and plugin via admincp or is there a special uninstall procedure?

[Regenerate]

Hi guys,

To bad about ZT not supporting this anomore...

But I have a Q: does anyone know how to get the links in the posts working? I got lazy visitors that want to click around instead of copy-paste...

Here you see what I mean: http://www.dutchjoomlers.com/showthread.php?t=1183
You can see 2 links, 1 in the 'news body' and one below that is generated bij the Inferno RSS plugin with the code {XML[link]}.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[NxTek]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Sorry to say NxTek but I am not using RSS Feeds containing Video or Sound Files.

btw. this is not the meaning of RSS.
Its like using email for ftpying files

Of course it's a meaning of RSS. How do you think Podcasting works?

You can give this one a try: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...wpost&t=100269

Yeah I will. I was using it on 3.0.x. Hopefully the author won't abandon support. :ermm:

Thanks.

[Vierie]

Originally Posted by Regenerate

Hi guys,

To bad about ZT not supporting this anomore...

But I have a Q: does anyone know how to get the links in the posts working? I got lazy visitors that want to click around instead of copy-paste...

Here you see what I mean: http://www.dutchjoomlers.com/showthread.php?t=1183
You can see 2 links, 1 in the 'news body' and one below that is generated bij the Inferno RSS plugin with the code {XML[link]}.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Use [ url]{XML[link]}[ /url] instead of {XML[link]}.

[Regenerate]

Originally Posted by Vierie

Use [ url]{XML[link]}[ /url] instead of {XML[link]}.

I can use BB code there? Ok, thx, I'll try...

[nailerpa]

I think there were a couple of posts within this thread on how to do this, but nothing has worked for me yet.

Originally Posted by Mr. Tech

Hey! Great script!

Is it possible to stop the RSS feeds from showing up in the new posts page?