NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack

Hack originally posted by: Xyphen - RSS News Feed Hack
Modified by: wolfstream - Modified RSS News Feed Hack

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 &quot; 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

Common RSS Feeds:
- Yahoo!
- CNET.com
- BBC
- Wired News
- The Register
- Ars Technica
- All Headline News

[wattieuk]

ive installed the mod and the first scheduled rss post works fine, but it doesn't post subsequent messages, despite the feeds being updated. Anyone else got this problem?

[wattieuk]

Originally Posted by wattieuk

ive installed the mod and the first scheduled rss post works fine, but it doesn't post subsequent messages, despite the feeds being updated. Anyone else got this problem?

Weird. I found this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=59) and uploaded the attached file. Works fine now!

[Floris]

Any way I can limit this to just x entries - so I don't get 25 new threads each time to spam up the getdaily or getnew search?

[dorkus]

With this script, if it doesn't have the pubdate field, it won't work.

I'm trying to get the slashdot feed to work, and it worked the initial time, but it won't post anymore due to their feeds not having pubdate fields.

[dorkus]

For those interested in the slashdot feed, and are using this hack, I found an address that converts the slashdot feed to rss 2.0 and uses the pubdate field.

http://my.rsscache.com/express.xstre...1cebb2-en.aspx

[bishop93]

Here I thought this one would work when the other RSS mod didn't since this one seems actually promising with all the glowing reviews. But, I get this return from the cron job:

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/rss.php on line 2

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/rss.php on line 2

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

[bishop93]

Nevermind. One of our devs got this to work. I have no idea how. But it seemed to be something about the cron setup wrong. It is, as I said, a most excellent mod.

[bishop93]

Okay. I was wrong. Sorta. It's read and inserted once. I know that the feed has been updated once since then, but it's not updating the forum.

Why?

[bishop93]

Does anyone have answers to these questions? Such functionality is brilliant option to my operations, at least, but I can see why these would be necessary to others.

[mikehawk]

Hey guys, I'm a hardcore noob:

rss.php

Warning: main(./includes/cron/rss.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.gambia/realopin/realopinion.com/realboards/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './includes/cron/rss.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.gambia/realopin/realopinion.com/realboards/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

What do I do? This happened when I ran the task.