Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Wachtmeister

There is a slight problem with HTML Descriptions for forums.

Originally Posted by KW802

OOohh.... I need to strip HTML tags from the forum descriptions.

Wachtmeister, I'll update the attachment later tonight to version 1.0.2 but for now modify the cv_rss_feeds.php file and around line 139 find...

    $forum_desc = $forum['description'];

... and change it to:

$forum_desc = strip_tags($forum['description']);

Originally Posted by JD45

very nice, woked flawlessly ... thank you

[JD45]

Originally Posted by bashy

I also get a blank page when i click on any other RSS image?

oops, I get this too

[Capper5016]

nominated for MOTM....great hack.......I'd love the ability to add my site's other RSS Feeds to the list......but its a little over my head at this point

[Zoints]

Great work Kevin.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by JD45

oops, I get this too

I just visited your link and, at least with IE6, I'm seeing your RSS feeds after clicking on the RSS button. Nice site BTW. Is the name from the Aerosmith tour?

Originally Posted by Capper5016

nominated for MOTM....great hack.......I'd love the ability to add my site's other RSS Feeds to the list......but its a little over my head at this point

Which other RSS feeds do you offer besides the forums? I have a few other things on my sites besides the forums as well (eg: vBGallery, vBa Links, etc.) so I'd be interested in seeing what you've got in mind.

Originally Posted by DChapman

Great work Kevin.

[category]

hey you forgot to answer my problem that i am having.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by category

kw whats the problem here http://www.drillerdeals.com/forum/cv_rss_feeds.php for some reason i have it double each time ?

Originally Posted by category

hey you forgot to answer my problem that i am having.

I didn't forget, I didn't see it. :knockedout:

Looks like you the the "html in the forum description" problem also. Try this fix...

Originally Posted by KW802

Wachtmeister, I'll update the attachment later tonight to version 1.0.2 but for now modify the cv_rss_feeds.php file and around line 139 find...

    $forum_desc = $forum['description'];

... and change it to:

$forum_desc = strip_tags($forum['description']);

[Capper5016]

I have a main page thats tied to my forums....I have an RSS Feed page there as well, but nothing nearly as nice as yours.....would it be possible to integrate them all together under one page
http://hardwarelogic.com/content/?page=17
http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

[jaks]

I posted about trying to do this a while back. You did an awesome job KW802

This is going to help alot of Vbulletin sites.

Cheers

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Capper5016

I have a main page thats tied to my forums....

I'm not familiar with PHP Cow at all. Are the tables in the same DB as vBulletin or are they in different DBs?