[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]

maybe you should of read the thread

[jugo]

Is there a way to create a post with a digest...like a bunch of headlines in one post as opposed to a whole bunch of posts from one feed.

[Kirk Y]

Would require changing the plugin code... and I dunno Visionz, it works for me. It'd be nice if Zero would support this hack.

[lylah]

Originally Posted by thetoolman

ok i have just upgrade vb to 3.5 gold and now when i add a rss feed and click update feed, i get this error:

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

the old one works fine though.

any ideas?

my case is just like urs

please help Us :ermm:

[dieselpowered]

It is very simple...this hack does not work on 3.5 Gold

[KidneyBoy]

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:

Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

I'm running into the exact same problem. In fact, I ran into a similar problem using phpBB and their "FIND" system on "DreamHost". The funny thing is, I help out on another site running phpBB on "Powweb" and it works like a champ. So I decided to do some investigating, and it turns out that "DreamHost" has disabled the "allow_url_fopen" functions in PHP. They say it's a security risk, and several RSS fetching programs would be affected. Furthermore, they are predicting that most host providers will disable this function as well. Apparently there is some way to use cURL to get around this, but I'm *TOTALLY* clueless when it comes to PHP. I have NO idea how to implement this, as to make this code work.

So I'm really hoping somebody is willing to pick up this project, and can design a workaround using cURL as a fall-back (or something to that effect). Not to mention troubleshooting the other problems some of you are running into now that you are GOLD. Until then, I'll just keep an eye on here and cross my fingers.

Take it easy
KidneyBoy

[thetoolman]

is there an alternative rss script?

[ecarabin]

It's working on my Gold version very well...

[Snakey]

Originally Posted by lylah

my case is just like urs

please help Us :ermm:

Same error

[TheMusicMan]

Well, I added this Plug-in on vB 3.5 Gold with the example RSS settings from the BBC and it works a treat.

I'm off to find relevant feeds for my forum... what a corking way to get content. Superb, thanks