[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

[stamos2003]

hmm, seems like it's not supporting greek letters? no iso-coding possibility?

[Sir_Yaro]

seems to hava problem with non-latin letters:
try to use this feed:
http://linux.pl/rss.php

error is in this line:

<title>Dlaczego Linux?<br>Wyniki bada�upowszechnienia oprogramowania Open Source  wr� polskich przedsi�iorstw</title>

[cashpath]

How would this be edited so that it only posts A SINGLE latest news item in a RSS?

That would fix duplicates.... the way it works now it checks to see if the title= the last posted stored title. If it only checked the latest posted new and only posted 1 of them you would not got dups..

So.. anyone know how to only have it post 1??

[Zinc]

'installed' Got it working perfectly on 3.5.4, nice job.
Got the occasional ? in place of the ' char, but I guess that's down
to the feed set as ISO and my vB is UTF-8. Otherwise, v nice.

[Al-Fateh]

need help installing this one

can anyone help please

[coffee]

Thank you Zero Tolerance.

[CarpHunter]

In some wierd way it wont work properly.

I installed it and all seems ok. Got the new menu in Admincp and all.

Things get strange when I try to detect the feeds settings. I insert a link and my forum starts loading and loading and loading. After a couple of minutes my server times-out.

I tested this with the example BBC feed and some others but none seem to work.

Anyone have an explanation for this???

Board: vb 3.5.4
RSS hack: Inferno 1.6
All fresh installed and no other mods on it.

[edit]
Just tested some more and found something interesting.
My server is running WinXP Pro, PHP 4.4.2, MySQL 4.0.26 and Apache 1.3.35.
When I click the dtect button I get a PHP error on my servers monitor.
Hope someone can help me with this.

[popowich]

Hello,

I noticed there is a 1.6 with bug fixes so I downloaded and installed, but I'm still at 1.5. Looking at the product xml file it says 1.5 at the top. Is it possible 1.6 was released but the version not updated in the XML file? If there is a specific download I should be looking for attached to a post in one of the 35 pages please point out the page number. Thank you.

-Raymond

[libertate]

An excellent edition to my tools! //clicks Install//

A minor notes -

* In field feed_parser you are not escaping double quotes. Whenever someone puts a double quote in any of the RSS Setting, it gets blown away.
Wouldn't it be easier to break those fields out instead of using parsing?

* As earler mentioned a toggle to allow a specific feed to create a thread, or continue existing thread would be excellent.

[Neal-UK]

I'm getting this on one site running a cron job:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sb_test() in /****/***/****/********/******/**/forum/includes/class_dm_threadpost.php(1466) : eval()'d code on line 2