news2vb - Moreover news headlines to vBulletin discussion thread

Hope the instructions at the top are clear, if not please post here.

To install this utility, copy the single PHP file to your vB dir. Edit it and change the password to whatever you wish. Change the yourvbdir variable to the URL pointing to your vB directory.

As demo - here are some sample output threads:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...threadid=44475
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...threadid=44522

Also, have a look at the menu here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/news2...ion=picksource

This script will generate messages of the following form in whatever forum you wish, using any of the Moreover newsfeeds.

• Microsoft s Xbox Fails To Wow Japanese Market
  (osOpnion, Mar 13 2002 8:17AM) Discuss
• Xbox - dont believe the hype
  (IT-Director.com, Mar 13 2002 1:33AM) Discuss

Changelog

1.1 - "Post News" output now shows BB code parsed message, URL to thread
1.1 - Fixed missing references to $yourvburl

[fimfimfim]

Starts here:

foreach ($jrebrokennewsfeed as $array_id => $jnewsfeedline) {

ends at the end of the script.

Basically look for the above and replace everything from this point to the end of the script.

[limey]

I'm using fimfimfim's code above and when the cronjob posts it updates to vbhomelite frontpage, but only the title and the post is blank. Just curious if anyone else had this problem

[Cloud-Warrior]

I think Moreover still allow the service for non-profit sites. The cheeky alternative would be to write some script to redirect to the Moreover links