Newsfeed with Selector menu on vbAdvanced CMPS

Hello Everyone

This little mod, is great if you want to incorporate news feeds into the vbAdvanced CMPS

There is the one Prerequisite: I use the freeware version of carp,
but, if you have another aggregator you can modify this mod to use your own

Carp
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

you can download the free version here:
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/docs/download.php

Install Instructions:
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/docs/install.php

within the zip file is an instruction.txt file that should explain everything.

Demo:
http://www.tech-unity.com

Update:
updated instruction.txt file in the zip to comment on the carp path

[SRuvbnhad]

Is there a way for it to default to a certain feed without it actually having to be selected? Example, you go to a certain site and the news feed is already there for whatever.com without having to select it. I tried deleting the first option and creating a feed0.php but it doesn't work.

EDIT: NM I figured it out.

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by SRuvbnhad

Is there a way for it to default to a certain feed without it actually having to be selected? Example, you go to a certain site and the news feed is already there for whatever.com without having to select it. I tried deleting the first option and creating a feed0.php but it doesn't work.

EDIT: NM I figured it out.

Would you mind posting your code for us? I think it should be pretty simple, but being very busy right now, I dont have as much time as i'd like to tinker with things at the moment.

Starscream,
This should be fairly simple, i'll see if I can spend a few minutes on this, but... if you have an account at vbAdvanced there is a gentleman there that figured alot of these things out.
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/show...8&page=2&pp=30

the post in question is by Protoss

HTH

[Viks]

NICE MOD - TOMSHAWK.

Q1:

// Display it
CarpCacheShow('http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss');

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is this where I will add my list of newsfeed drop down option???

Q2:

Where can I get newsfeed fo other stuff besides technical news... for instance i am looking for newsfeed on medical news.. that has some specific words in the news.

Can I do that using this mod??

appreciate your help

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by Viks

NICE MOD - TOMSHAWK.

Q1:

// Display it
CarpCacheShow('http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss');

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is this where I will add my list of newsfeed drop down option???


Q2:

Where can I get newsfeed fo other stuff besides technical news... for instance i am looking for newsfeed on medical news.. that has some specific words in the news.

Can I do that using this mod??


appreciate your help

Just replace this "http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss" with the link to the rss feeds you want to use.
This will get the first one working, use the instructions to get more working

Yes, you can use rss feeds for other things, i.e. not technical, but anything you want. the hard part for you is finding the medical feeds you want to use. I dont have any for you , but, some of the medical sites you visit reguarly should have some feeds.

Here is one site that offers some
http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/article.htm

Good luck with this

[Viks]

Originally Posted by vulture

In template.txt it refers to pages.php

Can't find this anywhere. I'm using 3.0.7

I suppose that is a custom page that you will have to make..its not part of VB. I think Tomshawk wud know about it since he has it on his website.


TomsHawk - few things for you.

1. Excellent HACK! thumps up. I have been looking for something simmilar but did not find anything interesting. RSS is hte most underutilized aspect of forums/BB and u have done a good job.

I have rated the thread as all stars!

2. I am not sure if it is something that is possible but if I can somehow get a better display of the feeds.. then that would be just AWESOME

write now I have the feed up on seperate page but I was wondering if there is an option to have a break after each news item and maybe change the font etc.........that would look better on my boards. any suggestions on that.

Plus a question - Like CARP - are there are any newsfeed display softwares that have a GUI backend so that admins can configure the look and fee of each news feed?

cheers,

Vik

[SRuvbnhad]

Originally Posted by tomshawk

Would you mind posting your code for us? I think it should be pretty simple, but being very busy right now, I dont have as much time as i'd like to tinker with things at the moment.

This is what I did to have it default to a specific feed on a page load:

  <form name="form"> 
          <select name="select" onChange="displaydesc(document.form.select, thetext, 'textcontainer')"> 
            
            <!--Feed 0-->
            <option>Business Week - Top News</option>
            <!--Feed 1-->
            <option>Business Week - Investors News</option>
            <!--Feed 2-->
            <option>Business Week - Small Business News</option>
            <!--Feed 3-->
            <option>Alabama Weather Alerts</option>
            <!--Feed 4-->	    
            <option>Fox News - US & World</option>
            <!--Feed 5-->	    
            <option>Fox News - Business</option> 
			
            </select> 
        </form> 
        </span></td> 
    </tr> 
     <tr> 
      <td class="alt1" align="left"> <span id="textcontainer"></span> 
         <script type="text/javascript">
			var thetext=new Array()
			thetext[0]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed0.php\" ></iframe>";
			thetext[1]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed1.php\" ></iframe>";
			thetext[2]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed2.php\" ></iframe>";
			thetext[3]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed3.php\" ></iframe>";
			thetext[4]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed4.php\" ></iframe>";
			thetext[5]="<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"feed/feed5.php\" ></iframe>";

I added a feed0.php to the feed directory and just modified/removed some of the other code that was not necessary for it to work. So far it works flawlessly; granted it's not too pretty but for this particular site that's not a problem.

Live demo: http://minemanage.com

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by blkatt

The CARP website has been down for days now. Where are you guys getting the CARP software. Are they still around?

Any alternatives to using CARP?

If you are still interested in this addon, the Carp website is back up and running

[brianstevz]

Installed and works great. Took a little time to find which RSS streams I wanted but great hack!

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by blkatt

hey Tom,

Is there a way your mod can be adapted for CARP and GROUPER for news feeds to display on a vbAdvanced CMPS page.

The reason why I ask is because with GROUPER I can convert Google news searches into RSS feeds - which is my real objective: converting Google news searches into RSS and displaying on a vbAdvanced CMPS page.

Thoughts?

Hello blkatt,

I just read through the instructions for grouper.
It looks like it would be rather easy to do.

The instructions for grouper states creating a php file with the path to grouper.php and a set of search terms.

Once you upload this new php file, in my module you'll create a feed#.php file with its link pointing to this one you just uploaded.

And, the grouper.php file defaults to google, so it should work perfectly

Give me a hollar if you want or need help setting this up, I wouldn't mind checking it out, but I myself, at least at the moment, dont need it.

Good luck


brianstevz, Congrats, I'm glad you like it

[blkatt]

Thanks Tom,

I may take you up on your offer for some assistance in setting this up. I am going to give it a shot this evening. I must admit I am a bit technically challenged at times. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thank you for all your help.