Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ Older version can be found here ]

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.
• Automatically adds an RSS Feeds link to your navbar template in the Quick Links drop-down menu.
• 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.


Revisions
2.4.3
- Fixed issue if "Show Private Forums" is turned on in your ACP then private forums would have also been listed. As of 2.4.3 private forums will not be listed regardless of the ACP option.

2.4.2
- Fixed the "Excluded Forums" option for when multiple forums are selected.

2.4.1
- Fixed an uncached template (cv_ffl_rss_link_in_quicklinks).

2.4.0
- A new feature has been added to automatically add an "RSS Feeds" link to your navbar template in the Quick Links drop-down menu.
- All prior reported issue fixes are included.
- Version jump to 2.4.0

2.3.0
- A new feature has been added to automatically add an RSS button to your footer template as can be seen here at CinVin. The option is turned on by default and can be turned on or off in the ACP.
- Session ID variables have been removed from the cv_ffl_forum_link template as some older styles that were converted to the vB 3.6.x were having some issues.
- The method of including the vBadvanced CMPS file for CMPS 2.x & older has been changed. If you are using CMPS but not integrating the CinVin Forum Feed Listing with it then you may have seen an error at the top of the page.
- For those interested in removing the "CinVin" branding from the footer, the Branding Free License cost has been reduced.

2.2.1
- Private release

2.2.0
- Added new feature to show forums based upon a usergroup ID. The default value is now usergroup ID 1.
- Fixed 'Excluded Forums' option; was not working in all circumstances.
- Fixed display issue introduced in 2.1.1 for vBSEO users.
- Code cleanup.
2.1.1
- Fix for vBSEO users that were having an issue with no forums being listed.

1.x.x - 2.1.0
- Several new features, check your ACP.

1.0.2
- Strip HTML from forum descriptions
- Fixed forum link to go to forum display instead of external.php
- Added additional template (cf_ffl_forum_link) for forum links versus feed links
- Removed logic that would not show a forum if the forum was not listed on the forum jump menu

1.0.1
- Added WOL plugins

[mykkal]

didn't have the problem until i installed the mod.
i'll go over there again so they can send me back to you and you can send me back to them.

thank you.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by mykkal

didn't have the problem until i installed the mod.
i'll go over there again so they can send me back to you and you can send me back to them.

thank you.

This mod does *not* modify your feeds nor does it even create them; that is all done with your external.php file that comes with vBulletin. If you are having problems with your feeds, then it has *nothing* to do with this mod.

[viper357]

Hi there

I am getting an error when I click on the RSS button on the feeds page, but only for some of the forums, some of them are fine, here is an example of the error

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/external.php?forumids=6

Here is the feeds page
http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

Edit - nevermind, seems to be working fine all of a sudden, strange.

[viper357]

Ok, the error is back again, it seems to be an occasional error, doesn't happen all the time

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/class_postbit_alt.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 131

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/class_postbit_alt.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 131

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/class_postbit_alt.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 131

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/class_core.php:3097) in /external.php on line 858

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/class_core.php:3097) in /external.php on line 858

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/class_core.php:3097) in /external.php on line 858

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/class_core.php:3097) in /external.php on line 858

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/class_core.php:3097) in /external.php on line 858

[KW802]

Viper357, sorry, but if the error is with the actual "external.php" script then I can not point you in the right direction since that is the stock vBulletin file. This script, that displays the list of available feeds, just links to the stock "external.php" file but it does not modify or affect it in any way.

[wtrk]

no matter what i do the zip file seems to be corrupted, it wont unzip.

[saadessa]

thank you

[accludetuner]

Awesome mod! Works Great! *installed*

Is there a way to specifically list other feeds to be displayed that are not part of the VB default feeds? They don't even have to be dynamic....just a place to list the static URLs of additional feeds so they also get displayed. The point of the mod is to display ALL of the RSS feeds in one place, but it's not taking into account other possible feeds besides the VB defaults. I looked at the templates to see if I could just manually add a few lines of feeds but they are all kinda split up into sections so I didn't see a way to do that easily. Perhaps create a separate template for the static links that gets attached at the end of the VB feeds? If this is not possible currently, that's my suggestion for the next release.

Thanks for the great work

[KW802]

Accludetuner, what types of other feeds do you have in mind?

Something I've been toying with in my head is a new option that'd be a list of the most common vB add-ons so that somebody could turn the check box so that a link to (just for example) vBGallery would be included as well.

[accludetuner]

Found a really quick and dirty way around this for now and figured I'd post it here in case anyone else was impatient and really wanted to get this done like me

In template >cv_ffl_forumlist

Find:

$adv_portal_forumlist

Directly after it add:

<tr>

  <td class="alt1">
    <a href="ACTUAL PAGE URL" title="TITLE FOR YOUR PAGE"><strong>DISPLAYED TITLE</strong></a>
  </td>
  <td class="alt1" align="center">
    <a href="FEED URL" title="TITLE FOR FEED"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif" border="0" alt="ALT TEXT" /></a>
  </td>
  <td class="alt1" align="center">
    <a href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=FEED URL" title="TITLE FOR FEED"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/addtomyyahoo4.gif" border="0" alt="ALT TEXT" /></a>
  </td>
  <td class="alt1" align="center">
    <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/FEED URL" title="TITLE FOR FEED"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/addtobloglines.gif" border="0" alt="ALT TEXT" /></a>
  </td>
  <td class="alt1" align="center">
    <a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=FEED URL" title="TITLE FOR FEED"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/add-to-google-plus.gif" border="0" alt="ALT TEXT" /></a>
  </td>
</tr>

You need to do this for EACH additional feed you want to be displayed and update the parts in RED with the appropriate information.


and to add the space to separate categories or feed types, use the following code:

<tr><td class="alt1" colspan="$vboptions[cv_ffl_colspan]"><br /></td></tr>

And to list a category heading (without any RSS feeds) use the following code:

<tr><td class="alt1" colspan="$vboptions[cv_ffl_colspan]">
    <strong><a href="URL TO PAGE" title="PAGE TITLE">DISPLAY TITLE</a></strong>
</td></tr>