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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!
Version: 2.0.4, by CyberRanger CyberRanger is offline
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Version: 3.5.4 Rating:
Released: 02-05-2006 Last Update: 08-01-2006 Installs: 249
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What is AboutToday?

AboutToday provides a central place to bring daily items of interest to your forum visitors. It includes two main components: an RSS Reader System and Local Events database System.

Please NOTE: This mod has been modified for vb ver 3.6.4. It should work on vb ver 3.5.4 and 3.6.x.
  1. An RSS Reader system where the admin can enter RSS feeds that will then be displayed on the page. RSS feeds can be set to AUTOMATICALLY create threads or be set so that users can easily create a thread from a feed.. Feeds can be read via fopen or cURL.





    The RSS Feeds are fully intergrated with vbAdvanced and could actually be placed anywhere you want!!
  2. A database system that can hold unlimited categories of "AboutToday" events. For example, you could have a history category (like a Today in History) with sub-categories for different eras in history. Or, you could have a daily joke or software tip of the day, etc.

    The "Add Event" feature is intended to help you if you want for example - Sports: Today in History. With the vb calendar, you cannot have categories and you are restricted with how far back the dates can go.




    So with the "Add Event" feature, you could have a category tree like:
    • Hockey
      • Professional
      • College
      • High School
    • Football
      • American Football
      • The Rest of the World (Soccer)
    • Baseball

    with the normal calendar feature, you cannot have categories. And with "Add Event" you can have any date. So, if you want an event like "Jan 1, 132 B.C. - the first ball was invented", you can do that. But, that isn't possible in the normal calendar. Also, the events in "Add Event" are fully searchable.

Installation

Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory:
abouttoday.php
includes/class.csv.php
includes/class_abouttoday.php
includes/cron/cron_abouttoday.php
includes/xml/bitfield_abouttoday.xml
includes/xml/cpnav_abouttoday.xml
admincp/abouttodayadmin.php
From the admincp, import the product file product-abouttoday.xml (Manage Products - Add/Import Product).

REFRESH your admincp window. You should now see a listing in the left column of the admincp for "AboutToday".

Getting Started

NOTE - if this is a new install, a Yahoo RSS Feed and CNN Entertainment Feed have been automatically added to give you a feel for how the product looks.

If you plan to use the RSS Feeds:

1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - RSS Feeds. Add an RSS Feed.
2. From the admincp, select Usergroups - Usergroup Manager. Add permissions so the Administrator group can use the product.
3. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php.
4. If you want the feeds to AUTOMATICALLY create threads, go to admincp - abouttoday - settings. There you must set the userid of the account to use to create the thread. Then, edit the RSS Feed with the forumid of where the threads for that feed should be created!

If you plan to create your own "today in history" type of database:

1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - Categories. Add a category.
2. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. "Add" your first event to the category you have created!

Version Status
I've tested this product extensively but ... use this totally at your own risk!

Credits
I learned a lot about how to code this and used a lot of the code from what Ron1n did with ecDownloads. What I've learned from his code while helping to support ecDownloads has been invaluable.

Sites Using this Product
Visit www.armchairgeneral.com to see this product in action.

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Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks!

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So does this use CURL or FURL?
It uses fopen. If you need to use cURL, I believe this thread will let you successfully do that:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=200
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Originally Posted by westpointer
It uses fopen. If you need to use cURL, I believe this thread will let you successfully do that:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=200
Yeah I found that edit. Seems to work now. Great plugin. I've always ran into this problem after Dreamhost decided to disable fopen, and was never able to use news/rss plugins.

Thanks!
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Version 2.0.2 added Jun 16, 2006
  • Built in support to use either fopen OR cURL for fetching RSS Feeds (set in admincp->About Today->Settings) [see attached image]
  • Added function to to change German umlauts into ue, oe, etc.
  • Fixed possible XSS exploit in the Local Events database system

I don't think hardly anyone uses the "Local Events" feature but if you do this version is important to fix a possilbe XSS exploit. Otherwise, you don't really need this version unless you have German feeds or need to use cURL instead of fopen.
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Whats this curl, furl and fopen?

Do i need to know this?
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Whats this curl, furl and fopen?

Do i need to know this?
Nope, if your current install is working fine, you are good to-go. If you do decide to use the "Add Events" (Today in History) portion of the program, you should upload the latest version first.
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Is it possible to add a nofollow tag to the links?
Thanks
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Is it possible to add a nofollow tag to the links?
Thanks
Would you want them to be globally applied to all the links or be able to control which feeds get nofollow added?
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Would you want them to be globally applied to all the links or be able to control which feeds get nofollow added?
All the external links.
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All the external links.
Okay, I think though I'll add it as a per feed option in the next release. I can see situations where you would not want the "nofollow" as part of the tag. For example, it may be a site that you are partnering with.

(I was going to show you where to change the code but I'm afraid the changes are a bit too numerous to do so.)
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Okay, I think though I'll add it as a per feed option in the next release. I can see situations where you would not want the "nofollow" as part of the tag. For example, it may be a site that you are partnering with.
Exactly, I'm eagerly awaiting the next release :classic:
Thanks for the follow up.
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