[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

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same error as silurius (same host, too.)

cURL is enabled. In fact, it works fine with ArticleBot.

<sigh>

[dirtycrow]

is there any way to make this not create new threads? my "New Posts" page is getting hammered.

[G_Man]

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

is there any way to make this not create new threads? my "New Posts" page is getting hammered.

Until you (or WE) get an answer to this I found a solution: I made a new child forum in the MOD Area where only I have permissions. I get hit with the New Posts, but it doesn't show up in anyone else's listing.

Hope that at least helps a little.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by G_Man

Until you (or WE) get an answer to this I found a solution: I made a new child forum in the MOD Area where only I have permissions. I get hit with the New Posts, but it doesn't show up in anyone else's listing.

Hope that at least helps a little.

This mod will help you filter which forums get searched for new posts:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025

[G_Man]

What would work wonders for me is if this Hack could post all of the updates in One Post for each Feed. Or even in just one thread would be much better.

Thanks Again for all your hard work ZT.

[James Goddard]

I'd like to suggest adding event feeds to this.

For example, I have a feed that is "Upcoming Events" for a training agency. What I'd like to do is rather than create a post on this is to create a calendar event.

The feed has an entry:

PHP Code:

          <description>
            3/4/06
          </description> 


for single day events and an entry:

PHP Code:

          <description>
            9/10/06-9/15/06
          </description> 


for multiday events.

[NineToez]

I upgraded to 3.5.4 from 3.5.3 and neither version has worked with this extension, but did when I was running 3.5.2 and below just fine. I keep getting an "Invalid URL to RSS feed given" error.

[mvolking]

So there is no answer to making URL's in the RSS posts actual links??

Also, is there any way to put in line breaks in after the title/URL/description?

[G_Man]

Just put spaces in the "Thread Post RSS Construct" box between elements:

Mine looks like this:

PHP Code:

[B][U]{XML[title]}[/U][/B][U][/U]

[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

{XML[description]} 


[Langly]

Mine just makes a thread with the link to the source forum thread. If the source forum thread has additional posts after boing posted on my forum, the updated posts are not put on my forum. How can I make it do update the original threads? I have nearly 12000 threads and like 12200 posts.