NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack

Hack originally posted by: Xyphen - RSS News Feed Hack
Modified by: wolfstream - Modified RSS News Feed Hack

I am posting this up as a new hack because of the major changes made to how the script works. Also, I didn't want people to get confused as to which one to download since there were 3 different versions on the original post.

Xyphen released the original version, then wolfstream modified the script and corrected some errors. After that, I modified wolfstreams version to change how posts were inserted. Now the post count will increase, posts will be able to be searched, and similiar threads will work.

RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.x. As long as vBulletin doesn't change the database structure much, this should be good for the next release also, and those to come.

Allows you to have a live RSS news feed (such as one from Google or CNET) in a forum. The user that posts it will basically be a bot, which *should* only be used for posting the news, but you can even make it for a regular user.

Comments are welcome! Support provided through this thread.

Latest Version:
- 1.26 - for PHP 4.3.0 & above
- 1.26a - for PHP prior to 4.3.0

vBulletin Versions:
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1

PHP Versions:
- > 4.3.0
- < 4.3.0

Installation Overview:
- Files to edit: (2) /admincp/index.php, /includes/functions_newpost.php
- Files to upload: (4) rss.php, admincp/rss_admin.php, includes/RSS/class.RSS.php, includes/RSS/rss_update.php
- Queries to run: (4) in rss_install.php

History:
Version 1.26 (23 June 2004 - Slapyo, Natch)
- listing of bot's more intuitive (Natch)
- hopefully fixed duplicate problem (Slapyo)
- stripped html tags from title and description (Slapyo)

Version 1.25 (12 May 2004 - Slapyo)
- fix for &quot; showing up
- logs action in scheduled task log if turned on

Version 1.24 (20 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now deleted with delete_thread function
- post counts updated when using delete all news

Version 1.23 (14 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- added ability to delete bots
- cleaned up includes
- fix for PHP versions prior to 4.3.0 calling html_entity_decode()

Version 1.22 (13 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- duplicate posts problem fixed
- fix for problem with ' appearing as \'

Version 1.21 (12 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- bot will not be subscribed to posts now

Version 1.2 (11 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now inserted with build_new_post function

Version 1.1 (28 March 2004 - wolfstream)
- file edits taken down to 1
- cron script included

Version 1.0 (28 January 2004 - Xyphen)
- original release

Common RSS Feeds:
- Yahoo!
- CNET.com
- BBC
- Wired News
- The Register
- Ars Technica
- All Headline News

[RS25com]

I have this installed. It worked great the first day. Now it does not work.

I have three bots, using three different user ID's. The ID's are NUMBERS not names, right? So why is this not working?

it's over at www.sell2.us/forums in Off Topic and RSS Classifieds.

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by turbidblue

i got the hack installd and everything is working great, but i have a question about my bot that makes the news threads...

how do i get it to not show rep,age,postcount, and everything else???

i just want it to be the avatar and the name of the bot

any help??


i was told i needed to edit my postbit to identify that userid and to make it simple...

but how??

you should ask over on http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/ ... they can help you with that.

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by RS25com

I have this installed. It worked great the first day. Now it does not work.

I have three bots, using three different user ID's. The ID's are NUMBERS not names, right? So why is this not working?

it's over at www.sell2.us/forums in Off Topic and RSS Classifieds.

post the URLs to the news feeds please.

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by Sanjiyan

Any ideas on when a newer version that might support the rdf feeds?

not sure when, i'm pretty busy with work ... i work on it in bits here and there.

[Sanjiyan]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

not sure when, i'm pretty busy with work ... i work on it in bits here and there.

I do hope it is soon, this is the one hack I am really really waiting for, and I rush to this thread everytime theres an update to the script, because I am in desperate need for this hack ASAP.

[Rob Eh]

Is there a way to specify the time zone used in the control panel for this?

It uses the server time and not the time set by vB in the control panel.

Thanks,

[Mickey19781978]

I have installed this hack and got no errors running this or installing it

I installed version 1.26

My php version is 4.3.6.6

Forum ID 24
User ID 1 (which should be me once i get this to work iw ill create a user for it)
Source = http://www.sportnetwork.net/rss.php?sport=football

Nothing happens... install went smooth and all installed successfully
Scheduled task manager is set to 1 hour on Newsfeeds with filename ./rss.php

But when i hit run now
I still get nothing

Maybe i am using wrong sources?
If so could someone include a few addresses with rugby,football and UK news?

Cheers,

Mick

[Mickey19781978]

turned out i had a small failure in the functions_newpost.php

fixed it and is working now =)

awesome job on this m8ey

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by Rob Eh

Is there a way to specify the time zone used in the control panel for this?

It uses the server time and not the time set by vB in the control panel.

Thanks,

hrm, i am not sure on how to do that. i will look into it, but it has to do with the insertion of the post ... i think it just uses now() to grab the date which would be server time. I will have to jump into vB code to see how they do it.

[CharlieBrownDE]

nice hack. installed and no problems 3.0.3 thx