[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[Vizionz]

article bot isnt converted to 350 even in the beta forms. this was working on betas just aint working for gold

[Snakey]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

I think I figured out the error. Try setting your flood post option to 0 seconds, meaning users do not have to wait to post again. I don't know why, but these automatic posts have to obey the same rules as a regular user.

Thank you, this works!!!!

@jluerken: just disable guests to post messages

[trilljester]

Originally Posted by Snakey

Thank you, this works!!!!

@jluerken: just disable guests to post messages

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Example: I have a movie review feed forum that gets its feeds from Roger Ebert's website. I created a user named Roger Ebert and made him moderator of the Movie Review Forum. He can override any flood prevention, thus making the RSS feeds work. Thanks for finding this!

[hobbes747]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

I think I figured out the error. Try setting your flood post option to 0 seconds, meaning users do not have to wait to post again. I don't know why, but these automatic posts have to obey the same rules as a regular user.

Originally Posted by trilljester

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Between this and this it works. Good job!

[offline]

Originally Posted by trilljester

Make the user who posts the messages into the forum a moderator of the forum. Like for my site, I created a special user who posts these threads, and made that user a moderator for the forum that the RSS feeds go into, and they don't have flood prevention.

Example: I have a movie review feed forum that gets its feeds from Roger Ebert's website. I created a user named Roger Ebert and made him moderator of the Movie Review Forum. He can override any flood prevention, thus making the RSS feeds work. Thanks for finding this!

trilljester,

You are the man!!! Works like a champ now, made my user a moderator and no problems! Thanks for the info.

[imported_-Sidekick-]

Any time table on this being upgraded to vB 3.5.0 Gold?

[popowich]

Originally Posted by imported_-Sidekick-

Any time table on this being upgraded to vB 3.5.0 Gold?

Works OK for me.

Did you try it / are you getting any errors?

-Raymond

[imported_-Sidekick-]

I installed it and added a Top Stories Feed from CNN.com. It was posting the same story 4 or 5 times in a row. I was also getting the following error when manually trying to update a feed:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

I got the understanding from someone else's reply that I wasn't the only one having problems on 3.5.0 Gold. ???

[popowich]

That's the same problem I had yesterday, check out this page and the page before for clues Disable your post flood checking (make the value 0, default seems to be 30) and someone else recommended making your RSS member a moderator for the forum is posts to, but I have not tried that msyelf. Good luck!

-Raymond

[imported_-Sidekick-]

If that's the case I'd rather wait for a update. I'd rather not jeopardise potential more spam on my board by disabling flood protection, for the sake of having a feed.

The fact that you can't use HTML in the Thread Post RSS Construct area also keeps me away. Most Feeds I run into post a description of the story with a link to the full story. The links won't dynamically convert to links and stay as just text because vB picks it up as a possible malicious link.

I'd rather decompress the Link to a Click Here phrase anyway to clean up things a bit. Though HTML is not allowed and ruins the feed settings.