[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

[SirTalksalot]

HI,

I love this already but I have a few formatting issues. First of all is there any way to ensure links are clickable and that they open in a seperate window, same as when a links is posted anywhere else?

EXAMPLE: http://www.productionforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=260

Secondly, I've got some formatting problems with some of the feeds coming through.

EXAMPLE:http://www.productionforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=182

Is there any way to tighten this up? Or will the feed providor have to sort it out?

Finally, I'm having to allow HTML in the forums I have the feeds in. Is there any way to limit it so only the account I'm using to post the feeds can use HTML?

Oh, another quick thing. Once I've clicked update feeds, it won't post the same messages again, even if I have deleted them. This makes it hard to test, is there a way round this?

Thank you in advance.

[Freak0204]

I get this error after trying to update the feed:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/post/public_html/forum/includes/class_ffrss.php on line 371

The line in question:

if (!empty($this->LastAdded))

Any suggestions?

[briansol]

anyone get this working with woot feeds?

it won't accept any parent config from
http://www.woot.com/salerss.aspx

[COBRAws]

Is there a way I can use a feed to grab data from and post it in the header?

I would like to set up a weather box in my header template. Does anybody know if this is possible?
Thank you.

[laskos]

Hi all

i have installed this and works a treat, one thing though can anyone tell me how i can make the latest nes posts scroll rather be static?

thanks in advance.

Paul

[Ranger187]

Seems to not work in 3.6 RC1. I get a db error.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Seems to not work in 3.6 RC1. I get a db error.

Isn't RSS Functionality a stock feature of 3.6?

What does this Modification offer that the stock does not?

[froop]

Hi,

I have this problem:

I am wanting to create a feed for Google UK News with this:

feed://news.google.co.uk/?ned=uk&topic=n&output=rss

I have put this into the detect settings and also manually, both times I receive this message:

"While attempting to parse the document located at "feed://news.google.co.uk/?ned=uk&topic=n&output=rss" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue."

Could someone please either point out where I have gone wrong or suggest a valid URL?

Many Thanks.

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

This is a really excellent hack. Saves me going to all the hassle of upgrading to 3.6!

I just have one question: Would the headlines still get posted in a read only forum?

[rollo tamasi]

does this work with 3.5.4 >?