[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

[john1744]

Ok, I would highly recommend creating a subforum labeled news. I did that BBC feed, and it went nuts posting 30 Threads at once. LOL.

[john1744]

http://today.reuters.com/rss/topNews/

Would anyone be willing to dissect this for me, as in what is what for the Feed control? I have noticed two places I would like to use have this same format, but I can't figure it out.

Edit: Wow, this is really hard, I've tried about three times to figure it out. But I can't dissect the XML feed.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok.... installed but not working

I keep getting this error:

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

anyone else with this problem?


(I tried several source and I tried using the BBC example above with same result)

[john1744]

No the BBC link worked beautifully. My problem is, he used RSS 1.0 as an example, many sites use RSS 2.0 which is harder to decode IMO.

I want Gamespot, IGN and Reuters, but they all use RSS 2.0 which I have no idea what to do with.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by john1744

http://today.reuters.com/rss/topNews/

Would anyone be willing to dissect this for me, as in what is what for the Feed control? I have noticed two places I would like to use have this same format, but I can't figure it out.

Edit: Wow, this is really hard, I've tried about three times to figure it out. But I can't dissect the XML feed.

heh I think I know how....mine's just not working (help??!! )
for yours it looks thesame as the bbc one...

Parent RSS Tag Name : channel
Items RSS Tag Name : item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name : title
Thread Post RSS Construct :

Published: {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
}]Read More...

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

grr..uninstalled reinstalled...same results for all the feeds I try:

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

HHHAAAALPPPPPPPPP!!!?

[yahoooh]

could u make the next release also available for 3.0.7?

This was working fine, but now it seems it wont save the RSS setting after I add a new feed. So when I click update, it saying that I left all the options empty.

EDIT: I add html which was the problem. >_< . Now everything works fine. v2 should def be a HOTM.

:up:

[john1744]

It's still working fine here...

[Vizionz]

i have had no problems at all and i know nothing about this if you read what he says its common sence install file tells you everything u need to install it and then the example above and google will give you any other answers..

the only real question i have is is it possible to get whole news stories or does rss only post brief descriptions so its like a headliner