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.

[andreamarucci]

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?

[Alfa1]

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

A, maybe stupid, question. My forum has some forums that are just for paying members. It's possible to make the feed available just for these members and not for the others?

So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

In theory you can make the page unavailable for certain members, but the feeds themselves are available to anyone. AFAIK there is no RSS permissions system.

Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions. What that means if you're logged in then you'll see the forums listed on the page and you'll be able to view the RSS feeds if you have access to those forums but if a forum is not viewable to guests and if you're not logged in then the forum will not be listed on the page and you'll get a blank page even if you manually enter the URL to the external.php script with the forumID in question.

To test this... create a forum that only a certain user group can see, add yourself to the new group, and then go to the CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing URL. The new forum you created will be listed and, assuming that you've created some test messages, the RSS feed from external.php will be shown when you click the RSS button. Copy the direct URL to the RSS feed to your clipboard. Now logout and view the vB Forum Feed Listing page again. The new forum will not be listed. Now using the URL in your clipboard try viewing the RSS feed directly. It'll be blank.

[Humayun1]

Its really a great addition, i have installed it successfully and is working fine.
Thanks very much.

[soundbarrierpro]

Installed here http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php and all of the cinvin options are setup. Usergroup number is set to 2 for registered and above users.

External Data Provider settings for RSS are set.
Enable external Javascript - yes
Enable RSS Syndication - yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) - yes
Enable XML Syndication - yes

all forums are present, but there is no xml in the RSS Feed????

Thank you

[Mecho]

is it possible that in the rss feeds page , first it check the usergroups and then Just show the rss feeds that ppl can see it ! for example for guests , just show them a sections that guests have access to them . to admin shows all And ............

thanks

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

is it possible that in the rss feeds page , first it check the usergroups and then Just show the rss feeds that ppl can see it ! for example for guests , just show them a sections that guests have access to them . to admin shows all And ............

thanks

It already does that. If you are running the absolute latest version then go into the ACP and remove the value from the UserGroup field.

[andreamarucci]

Originally Posted by KW802

So nobody would see the listing except for certain members?

Not exactly. The 'external.php' script that comes with vBulletin will use your login credentials if you are logged in else it assumes 'guest' permissions.

Ok! In my forum I'll have two or three forum completely free and all the others available only to paying members. All the paying members will be in a group called "Pay" and all the others will be in a group called "free". All the free users will be able to see just the titles of the threads but not the content.

What you say is that, leaving the things as they are now, the "pay" members will see the complete RSS feed and the free users will se only the free forum feeds and not the others?

[imported_silkroad]

Hi!

I installed this on vB 3.6.8 and get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /var/www/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

I followed the instructions exactly.

Any clues?

Thanks!

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

Hi!

I installed this on vB 3.6.8 and get the following error:

I followed the instructions exactly.

Any clues?

Thanks!

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO