[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by Celtic_Mad

I have got http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=829&format=rss as my RSS Feed link, but everytime it updates, it adds the same news over and over again in the forum instead of just adding the newest ones without adding the whole lot of them again.

yeah same ere! - the feed is good, just adds the same amount over & over again, stops at a certain point in time and i dunno why...hmmm

EDIT - looks like version 1.5 is still online, instead of the bug fixed 1.6, might fix this duplicate problem

-b6

[Deimos]

I just installed this AOK, butttttttt

When it first ran, it added some 29 new threads, no problem
But, no matter how many times i click "mark as read", they still show up on the new post count?

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by Deimos

I just installed this AOK, butttttttt

When it first ran, it added some 29 new threads, no problem
But, no matter how many times i click "mark as read", they still show up on the new post count?

try editing your "new posts" link in your navbar template

Add the &exclude=27 (change 27 to the forum id where your feeds are posted)

http://www.mysite.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=27

-b6

[blue6995]

I am a complete novice at this so please bear with me. I appear to have installed it properly but how do I get it to show in a Forum? I have set up the name of the Forum through the ACP>RSS Forum Feeds

Thank you

[adb22791]

Hello,
I have this hack on my forums, and its great! Much better than article bot. I would like to add a Slashdot feed, but can't seem to be able to add it. Has anybody else successfully added one? Whenever I try I get a bunch of errors .

[popowich]

Hello,

Should I be able to get this feed to work?

http://www.billrini.com/xmlfeeds/cp_news.xml

This is the first one I have seen with the RDF in it, seems to be giving me some troubles.

I am trying to use:

channel / items / title

{XML[title]}
{XML[description]}
{XML[link]}Read more... (surrounded by the URL tags)

It gives me the error:

The system could not find the thread "title" tag you specified (title)

-Raymond

[cynix2]

@abd22791 and popowich

I myself tried to add slashdot and Was unsuccessful at getting it to detect an rdf feed.

@b6

I was trying to incorperate html into my definations area so that it would hot link and what not. Seams html is not allowed because it just dumps everything. Try sticking with bb code.

[subnet_rx]

One question, is the version number in product manager still supposed to read 1.5?

[hexonxonx]

I have read all the way through page 16 and gave up.

Does anyone know how to get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I have this working perfectly, I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

Thanks

[popowich]

I believe you are at the mercy of the source of the feed.

You get the teaser, than click the link to go to their site.

Otherwise, why would you visit their site?

-Raymond