Add-On Releases - AGM Advanced vBNavbar RSS Reader (Flash-based)

AGM Advanced vBNavbar RSS Reader (Flash-based)
'Display either an External Newsfeed or Latest Forum Posts in Your vBulletin Navbar'
Syrus XL Media - LIVE DEMO -> www.digitalport.co.uk
Please note BOTH versions are included in the download package.
Documentation is available in Word, PDF & Text - all included in package.

Introduction
This product is capable of showing either a Newsfeed from other websites using their RSS feeds, or the Latest Forum Posts version will display the latest posts from your forum directly within your vBulletin Navbar. It has been designed to fit the default navbar of the standard vBulletin style, and uses the same color scheme. It is coded to strip the standard HTML RSS layout code and use its own. The RSS reader is coded in ActionScript 2.0 to allow most users to use it without updating their Adobe Flash Browser Plugin.

Features include:
? Auto-scrolling feed
? Pause on mouse-over
? High-light description on mouse-over
? Buttons for Forward and Rewind feed
? Auto-detect flash version and notify user if update is required

Depending on which version you install, the reader will open in either a new window for use as a newsreader, or open in same window if used for latest forum posts. All the aforementioned features are available in both versions.

If you are familiar with vBulletin template coding then you can place
this product anywhere on your forum.

Installation
Upload all the files depending on which version you require (details in download package).

Edit the ag_read.php ? this file acts as a proxy if you are pulling data from an external RSS source, it also allows you to specify the rss source, whether it is external or internal. You should change the value of the dataURL to suit your own requirements. If this is to point at your own forum then please enable external rss data handling via the AdminCP. By default we have set the dataURL to the BBC?s rss newsfeed in the external dataPull version and vBulletin.com for the Latest Posts demonstration.

Template Edit
This modification only requires one template edit, making it simple to install into any vBulletin setup.

AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Default Style -> Edit Templates -> Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates > navbar

Find:

    </td>
<if condition="$show['member']">
    <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">
    <div class="smallfont">
        <strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]" 2="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[welcome_x_link_y]</phrase></strong><br />

Before Add:

<!-- AG Advanced RSS Reader -->
<td class="alt2">

<div align="right">
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="200" height="85">
  <param name="movie" value="vbnavrss.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
  <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
  <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />


  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="vbnavrss.swf" width="200" height="85">

    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
    <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
    <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
    <div>
      <h4>AG RSS Reader requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
      <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
    </div>

  </object>

</object>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
//-->
</script>

</div>
</td>
<!-- End AG Advanced RSS Reader -->

End of Template Edit. Click Save.

If you download this product and like it please click Install, so we can notify you of future updates.

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[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by crashys

Hi, thanks for your fast answer, my language is Portuguese.

You're welcome. I'll compile one tomorrow and upload it on here.

[macc]

hello and thanks for answer ...

Have one problem more ... how get color that will be same like my navbar ... can you take a look on my site - now i put this on different place because the colors not match


regards

macc

edit: fixed - now is ok

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by macc

hello and thanks for answer ...

Have one problem more ... how get color that will be same like my navbar ... can you take a look on my site - now i put this on different place because the colors not match


regards

macc

edit: fixed - now is ok

Color coding will be available in a pro version - but a dark version will also be released before that.

Looks good, glad you fixed the issue!

[Jezlad]

This is close to something I was looking to pay for a year ago. Except the latest threads would update automatically via Ajax each time a member posts.

How hard is this to achieve? I'm willing to pay.

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by Jezlad

This is close to something I was looking to pay for a year ago. Except the latest threads would update automatically via Ajax each time a member posts.

How hard is this to achieve? I'm willing to pay.

This wouldn't be too difficult to achieve, just getting the modification to query the database at regular intervals for the required data, format it and then update the output window.

[Sofia]

Very good hack. Installed.

Edit : problem with characters (french language) with :

ç - é - è - ê - ë - à - â - ù - û - ô - î

[webgroup]

very very nice!

[alexquattro]

Is that possible to recompile the flash for a dark forum skin?

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by alexquattro

Is that possible to recompile the flash for a dark forum skin?

It can be done. But if you want it for a specific forum style, then I would need to see your actual forum so we can use the correct HEX values. A small charge would be incurred though, for us to change these values, and recompile it. PM me if you're still interested.

Regards,

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by Sofia

Very good hack. Installed.


Edit : problem with characters (french language) with :

? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? - ?

This would be due to the character set embedded. To try and keep the file size down it was compiled with the minimum amount required, other languages are possible. A full set of characters would take the file size in excess of 400k, therefore we would need to look at which extra characters would be needed for the output to be in French.