[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

[JPQuiceno]

Does anyone know how to get the Slashdot Feed to work? I haven't seen anyone who has been able to.

[Floris]

Does this work yet on 3.5.2?

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by Floris

Does this work yet on 3.5.2?

If you mean "worked" as in functioned as designed, it has never worked.

Originally Posted by DjTaz

So your suggesting uninstall this and install ArticleBot 3.5 instead ?

I was hoping for an easier answer to get this one working to be honest

Yes, that is what I am suggesting. I installed ArticleBot in place of this and I have been so much happier since.

[NineToez]

ArticleBot doesn't work well for me at all; this one does a much better IMHO and yes, I'm running 3.5.2 so it's fine. The fatal error I had before had to be due to a bad RSS feed since I couldn't find anything else wrong with it and works flawlessly since I removed the suspect feed.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by FASherman

If you mean "worked" as in functioned as designed, it has never worked.


Yes, that is what I am suggesting. I installed ArticleBot in place of this and I have been so much happier since.

how DO you uninstall this? and any recommendations for the best transition from this to articlebot?

I was just going to install articlebot, get that running, THEN uninstall this so as to have no gap in feed service. is that a bad idea?

[The Chief]

I have just installed it on my vB 3.5.2 and it seems to work fine, except for posting, it just doesn't seem to work, when I QR it doesn't show up in AJAX and when I reload the post, my post is like before the article, when I reply to somebody's post in that one, mine goes under his???

can anybody help with this?

[loonytune15]

uninstalled due to the massive amounts of duplicates.

had no probs with the cron job btw.

[MOREAGA]

everytime i try to update my feed it shows this

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

and also when i was able to post it wouldn't show the content of the post, just the title and in the actual post it would say description.

[silurius]

I get this error also on 3.5.2, even with cURL enabled. My host directed me to this page to see "how they handle it".

Is there anything further I need to do to this hack to take advantage of cURL?

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

ERROR:

• The feed is correct but you keep getting this error message: "INVALID URL TO RSS FEED GIVEN"
  
  
  
  
  
  ---solution:
  
  
  
  cURL or open_URL needs to be ENABLED in your server.ini file. THIS HAS TO BE DONE BY YOUR HOST PROVIDER. I had to actually move hosts to get it. :/

[Rik Brown]

Originally Posted by MOREAGA

everytime i try to update my feed it shows this

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

I just installed the plugin today and get the same error message. I'm new to RSS so I'm just attempting to duplicate the BBC News sample above.

Any ideas? Thanks. -- Rik