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

[Slapyo]

no because they are new posts, however this has been suggested and you can fix it by opening up the file and modifying the search criteria for today's posts or new posts.

there is a new field in the tableprefix_THREAD table and it is called rss_feed. just add this into the query:

WHERE rss_feed!=1

that should work. not at my computer right now so i could double check, but that should eliminate all news posts from being brought up since they will have a 1 in the column and normal fields won't.

[smsmasters]

Thanks, how about the max execution time of 30 seconds? It keeps timing out!

[smsmasters]

I added : http://www.smsmasters.co.uk/forum/se...72,73,74,75,76

[Slapyo]

the time out could be related to your feed you are grabbing. what is the URL to the news feed. the script doesn't take long to run at all. but it could be timing out waiting for the rss file.

[smsmasters]

well, I have about <10 newsfeeds:

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/software
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/internet
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/wireless
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...age/rss091.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...ews/rss091.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...ogy/rss091.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...ent/rss091.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...lth/rss091.xml

[smsmasters]

Hmm, strange, if I run the cron job manually it times out, but if I let ir run automatically, it's fine!

[Slapyo]

it might time out because of the number of feeds.

[Intex]

The 30 second timeout is a PHP function. You can change this to whatever value you like in your PHP.INI I believe.

Originally Posted by smsmasters

Thanks, how about the max execution time of 30 seconds? It keeps timing out!

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by Kraydl

I found this mod for RSS feeds. The code may help you discover how others tackle the post duplication problem.

http://www.w3reports.com/forumfeeds.php

ya, this problem has been resolved.

[rsuplido]

In their tutorial, there is a rssfeed.php file that is called from cron. Where can I get this?

Thanks.