I am posting this up as a new hack because of the major changes made to how the script works. Also, I didn't want people to get confused as to which one to download since there were 3 different versions on the original post.
Xyphen released the original version, then wolfstream modified the script and corrected some errors. After that, I modified wolfstreams version to change how posts were inserted. Now the post count will increase, posts will be able to be searched, and similiar threads will work.
RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.x. As long as vBulletin doesn't change the database structure much, this should be good for the next release also, and those to come.
Allows you to have a live RSS news feed (such as one from Google or CNET) in a forum. The user that posts it will basically be a bot, which *should* only be used for posting the news, but you can even make it for a regular user.
Comments are welcome! Support provided through this thread.
Latest Version:
- 1.26 - for PHP 4.3.0 & above
- 1.26a - for PHP prior to 4.3.0
vBulletin Versions:
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1
PHP Versions:
- > 4.3.0
- < 4.3.0
Installation Overview:
- Files to edit: (2) /admincp/index.php, /includes/functions_newpost.php
- Files to upload: (4) rss.php, admincp/rss_admin.php, includes/RSS/class.RSS.php, includes/RSS/rss_update.php
- Queries to run: (4) in rss_install.php
History:
Version 1.26 (23 June 2004 - Slapyo, Natch)
- listing of bot's more intuitive (Natch)
- hopefully fixed duplicate problem (Slapyo)
- stripped html tags from title and description (Slapyo)
Version 1.25 (12 May 2004 - Slapyo)
- fix for " showing up
- logs action in scheduled task log if turned on
Version 1.24 (20 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now deleted with delete_thread function
- post counts updated when using delete all news
Version 1.23 (14 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- added ability to delete bots
- cleaned up includes
- fix for PHP versions prior to 4.3.0 calling html_entity_decode()
Version 1.22 (13 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- duplicate posts problem fixed
- fix for problem with ' appearing as \'
Version 1.21 (12 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- bot will not be subscribed to posts now
Version 1.2 (11 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now inserted with build_new_post function
Version 1.1 (28 March 2004 - wolfstream)
- file edits taken down to 1
- cron script included
Version 1.0 (28 January 2004 - Xyphen)
- original release
Slapyo - very nice hack. I've installed it and it works fine.
The only problem I can see is when the RSS feeds are pulled in, e.g. from The Register, the oldest posts are appearing that the top. I guess you can't do anything about that and it's down to the people that create the XML?
I would give blood for an rss feed that had more than a simple 1 line description with a link. I want to keep users on my forum. I would gladly pay for this service.
as of right now i don't plan on doing any more to the script till i finish up school. have a few weeks left till i graduate then i will have some time. but there were a couple things i was thinking about adding in. one was adding in the ability to use RDF feeds, so this would go along with that, i could make an option for what kind of feed it is. will keep this in mind.
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05-22-2004, 09:20 AM
