New Posting Features - RSS items as posts

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6
DESCRIPTION: RSS items are added as the posts of the choosen topic.
AUTHOR and IDEA: zCarot (www.zcarot.com)
INSTALLATION TIME: 2-5 minutes
DIFFICULTY: average

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

--------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and 4.1 can import RSS elements as threads and announcements.
This mod allows you to import them as messages as well!
It can be convenient for RSS with the important information which doesn't required to be discussed.

----------------------------------- REMARKS -----------------------------------

If the thread ID does not set, than the name of RSS feed will be the used as title of the topic.
If the topic still does not exist in the specified forum, it will be created with first item of RSS.
Practically all adjustments for display of RSS items as topics will influence on their display as posts.

---------------------------- INSTALL & UPGRADE ----------------------------

See at readme.txt

------------------------------------ HISTORY -----------------------------------

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

[christicehurst]

For the Thread ID:

What do I put in there? Just the number or the whole url link?

[christicehurst]

Originally Posted by christicehurst

For the Thread ID:

What do I put in there? Just the number or the whole url link?

I have tried all three options and it hasn't worked

[DocOf Dan]

nice work zcarot

I've just installed it and it appears to be working on the tests I've done so far!

I wonder if you could just clarify something for me. I'm hoping that this mod may facilitate me on a project I'm just about to start on.

Is it possible to route the input to different threads, or posts within the same threads, depending on information within the RSS feed itself (security isn't an issue, I'll be in control of the RSS feed myself ;-) )

For example the RSS feed might have sports news:
Item 1: English Football
Item 2: Darts
Item 3: Cricket
Item 4: American Football

would it be possible so that the feeds would be routed as follows:

1) Post in thread on English Football
2) Post in thread on Other Sports
3) Post in thread on Other Sports
4) Post in thread on American Sports

Not sure if that is clear - basically I'd like to be able to use information in the feed itself to determine which thread the post is made to?

If it isn't possible at present and it isn't a major task, could you give me a pointer as to where I'd need to start looking to modify the code?

Many thanks

[lovechandigarh]

nice, but when I tryo to import in 3.8.0 RC2, I get the following message and I can't go ahead with installing the product:
The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.5.999 / Incompatible with 3.7.999 and greater)

[lovechandigarh]

I was able to get it to work by changing dependencies in the xml file

[thompson]

thanks, i did it too.

[zCarot]

0.5.3 (2009/01/14)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 3.8.x

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201742

Sorry for so long inactive time. If somebody still have some problems or questions - post them on the new thread. I will not answer in this thread anymore.

P.S. Click "Mark as Installed" in the new thread, if you want to recieve emails about future updates