Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

yea i did otherwise how could i browse it ! ?

Is that a trick question?

Anway... I just re-read your problem:

1 - i have VBSEO ( the version that they published in vb.org ) installed in my forum , when i turned vbseo option ON i got this error :

There is no version of vBSEO released here at vB.org so in your case you'll want that option turned off. (The product "vBSEO SiteMap" is not the same thing as "vBSEO" -- They are made by the same company but are two very different products.)

As to why you're getting a blank page, turn off the vBSEO option and then give me a URL to take a look at where you are having the problem.

[Kalina]

I just upgraded and wanted to let you know that the "Exclude some forums from showing?" part isn't working, I put in some forum ID's and they still show.

[Mecho]

plz check ur pm box , links Sent

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Kalina

I just upgraded and wanted to let you know that the "Exclude some forums from showing?" part isn't working, I put in some forum ID's and they still show.

I'll check the code again this weekend... likely Sunday. I have a habit of working on several chunks of code at once so there is always the possibility that I missed something.

Originally Posted by Mecho

plz check ur pm box , links Sent

I'm only be online for a few minutes today but I see the PM alert and I'll check it out either late tonight or sometime Sunday.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Kalina

I just upgraded and wanted to let you know that the "Exclude some forums from showing?" part isn't working, I put in some forum ID's and they still show.

Originally Posted by KW802

I'll check the code again this weekend... likely Sunday. I have a habit of working on several chunks of code at once so there is always the possibility that I missed something.

C, any chance your browser cache was being loaded instead of a fresh view? I just tried the option on a live site and it worked as expected and I just took a look at the code in the attachment here and it matches the code on the site where it worked.

Just to rule it out, could you re-view the page and either clear your cache first or do a hard-refresh when viewing it?

Thanks

[Kalina]

Originally Posted by KW802

C, any chance your browser cache was being loaded instead of a fresh view? I just tried the option on a live site and it worked as expected and I just took a look at the code in the attachment here and it matches the code on the site where it worked.

Just to rule it out, could you re-view the page and either clear your cache first or do a hard-refresh when viewing it?

Thanks

Hey, do I know you? (C?) I cleared the cache and now see it's only when I am logged in that I see it and I guess cause I am an admin and can see the forums I set it not to show... could this be it?

Oh yeah, duh me, cinvin Kevin, hey!

[Brandon Sheley]

Would be nice if the first post was updated with the updated changes

cheers

[KW802]

Version 2.2.0 has been released and attached to the first post.

• Added new option to show forums based upon a usergroup ID. The default value is now usergroup ID 1. What that means is that if you enter a usergroup ID then only those forums that the specified usergroup can view will be shown. The default value is 1 (unregistered users). This is now the default behavior. To have all forums shown that the user has permissions to view (the old behavior) then remove the value & leave it blank. This was added due to a concern that was raised about a site staff member using something like iGoogle (Google's personal portal page) to view an RSS feed for a forum that users do not normally have access to and then Google caching the feed & somehow the cache being released into the wild. The odds were slim (if at all possible) but I agree with the thought behind the concern. This will also most likely eliminate some people using the Exclude Forums option to do the same thing.
• Fixed 'Excluded Forums' option; was not working in all circumstances.
• Fixed display issue introduced in 2.1.1 for vBSEO users. If you are a vBSEO user and installed version 2.1.1 then you would've started seeing the text "DEBUG MODE" in the middle of the screen even if you had Debug Mode turned off.
• Code cleanup. Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.

Whew! OK, let me know what you guys/gals find next.

Originally Posted by Kalina

Hey, do I know you? (C?) I cleared the cache and now see it's only when I am logged in that I see it and I guess cause I am an admin and can see the forums I set it not to show... could this be it?

Oh yeah, duh me, cinvin Kevin, hey!

Turns out I was uh.. uhm... hhhmm.... err... uhm.... wrong. The Excluded Forums option did indeed have a problem. It's been fixed in the 2.2.0 version.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

Would be nice if the first post was updated with the updated changes

cheers

Check post #2

[Mecho]

updated and still i can see Blankpages in some sections

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

updated and still i can see Blankpages in some sections

Something is going on with your session IDs being the URL like that. I'll take a closer look when I get home.

EDIT: OK, assuming that we're talking about the same problem then edit your 'cv_ffl_forum_link' template and replace it with this...

<if condition="$forumid"><if condition="$use_vbseo_links">$vbseo_forum_link<else />$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay.php?f=$forumid</if><else />$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php</if>