New Posting Features - RSS items as posts

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6.2
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

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

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 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 -----------------------------------

0.6.2 (2012/07/01)
- Fixed: backward compatibility with older vBulletin's versions
- Confirmed: vBulletin 4.2.0 support

0.6.1 (2012/04/07)
- Fix for support vBulletin 4.1.4 and newer

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

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

0.5.2 (2008/06/28)
- FIXED: "Cannot pass parameter 2 by reference" if you choose "Update dateline of old post"

0.5.1 (2008/05/24)
- FIXED: another bug when thread ID was not set up, or thread ID = 0 (thx. Kerry-Anne)

0.5 (2008/05/24)
- NEW: now you have an option to merge many RSS items to one post (atrljoe's idea)
- NEW: now you have an option to close old thread after X posts (Kerry-Anne's idea)
- FIXED: if you choose "preview" or you have some errors in settings then your thread ID is set up to 0
- FIXED: if thread ID was not set up, or thread ID = 0, then mod will not work sometimes
- FIXED: bug then thread ID > 65535 (thx. Kerry-Anne)

0.3 (2008/04/24)
- Released for vBulletin 3.7.x (Now supports thread prefixes)

0.2.3 (2007/10/20)
- Another fix for 0.2 (Fatal error in cron task)

0.2.2 (2007/10/17)
- Another fix for 0.2 (Thread ID will be saved at RSS data after creating a new one)

0.2.1 (2007/10/16)
- Fix for 0.2 (you can't save thread ID)

0.2 (2007/10/15)
- Now it is possible to specify of thread ID

0.1 (2007/09/02)
- First release

---------------------------------- SCREENSHOTS -----------------------------------
Standard version
1 element = 1 thread:
Attachment 79188

My version.
1 rss feed = 1 thread:
Attachment 79189
1 element = 1 post:
Attachment 79190

[AURFSCAN]

zCarot, which version would you recommend fo 4.1.12

0.6.1 or 0.6.2

cheers

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">0.6.2 must work on every vBulletin version from 3.6.0 to 4.2.0 (and may be in future versions)</font>

[guvatara]

Holy Carot.
Tnx for good mod and good localisation Vb to rus.

[autoescala]

Originally Posted by M.C.

4.2 not working and there is in admincp missaligment:

same problem on (vBulletin 4.2.0 Patch Level 2) not working and missaligment

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by autoescala

same problem on (vBulletin 4.2.0 Patch Level 2) not working and missaligment

Works fine on my 4.2.0pl2 - what doesn't seem to be working for you?

Always better to give a description of the problem instead of just stating its 'not working'....that way there is more chance of someone giving you a solution

[M.C.]

Originally Posted by Gemma

Works fine on my 4.2.0pl2 - what doesn't seem to be working for you?

I don't know but I tried to install on other forum and same issue with missaligement. May be if you update from earlier version your template stay OK but new installation brake AdminCP template as stated above in my image

[zCarot]

M.C. and all others, please, recheck the installation steps, because there found some mistakes.

The difference can be seen on this image:
http://zcarot.com/files/123_pg.png

[dougdirac]

Any feedback from someone using this on vB 4.2. Could I see a link to a thread where it's in use?

Thanks!

[Jonathan81]

Working for me on 4.2. PL2 - see here.

However, I can't seem to get the 'merge with old post' option to work. No error messages, it simply doesn't merge and always creates a new post, even within the time limit and when the last post was made by the same account. If anyone has any ideas what the solution might be, I'd love to hear from them!

[svyrydov]

Works fine on 4.2.1
спасибо огромное zCarot, искал подобное )