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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!
Developer Last Online: Jan 2015
What is AboutToday?
AboutToday provides a central place to bring daily items of interest to your forum visitors. It includes two main components: an RSS Reader System and Local Events database System. Please NOTE: This mod has been modified for vb ver 3.6.4. It should work on vb ver 3.5.4 and 3.6.x.
Installation Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory: abouttoday.phpFrom the admincp, import the product file product-abouttoday.xml (Manage Products - Add/Import Product). REFRESH your admincp window. You should now see a listing in the left column of the admincp for "AboutToday". Getting Started NOTE - if this is a new install, a Yahoo RSS Feed and CNN Entertainment Feed have been automatically added to give you a feel for how the product looks. If you plan to use the RSS Feeds: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - RSS Feeds. Add an RSS Feed. 2. From the admincp, select Usergroups - Usergroup Manager. Add permissions so the Administrator group can use the product. 3. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. 4. If you want the feeds to AUTOMATICALLY create threads, go to admincp - abouttoday - settings. There you must set the userid of the account to use to create the thread. Then, edit the RSS Feed with the forumid of where the threads for that feed should be created! If you plan to create your own "today in history" type of database: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - Categories. Add a category. 2. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. "Add" your first event to the category you have created! Version Status I've tested this product extensively but ... use this totally at your own risk! Credits I learned a lot about how to code this and used a lot of the code from what Ron1n did with ecDownloads. What I've learned from his code while helping to support ecDownloads has been invaluable. Sites Using this Product Visit www.armchairgeneral.com to see this product in action. Click Install! Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks! Show Your Support
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Can you PM me your site url along with a vbulletin admin login? I'll take a peek at it.
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Newbie question. What are the $myfeeds variables? What do they do? Sounds obvious, but what are they? Thanks.
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I really should have called that "columns" across. If you set it to two and you have two feeds assigned to $myfeeds, you'd get this: feed1 feed2 If you had it set to 1, you'd get: feed1 feed2 |
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When I try to force my feeds then I get this error
Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /abouttoday.php on line 1463 Any help woudl be good I love the mod. http://www.faceoffhockeyshow.com/forum/abouttoday.php |
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On Edit: Where do you change the variable? |
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Perfect Fix.
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I've just trawled through all 50 odd pages trying to work out how to get multiple columns. I've set the $myfeeds to 2 in the settings and I've set the $myfeeds variable to "yes" in each of the feeds as suggested, but I still only get a single column. I've tried the fix to the navbar, but I got nothing up top. I'd like 2 (or even 3 columns) across the top of the fourmhome page under the navbar. Any suggestions?? |
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To have a two column display of your selected feeds on forumhome, you need to add the $myfeeds variable to the FORUMHOME template. So, FORUMHOME would look like this: PHP Code:
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Done that, and now I get the 2 columns as you have your 2. BTW, it is a most excellent mod, some posters get sick of the std vb rss feeds creating threads when no one is really interested in the topic. This way they can decide if it is worth chatting about!!. just 2 more silly qns. 1) in the above how do I only show the $myfeeds for the users I have selected in the admincp settings? 2) Can I do 3 (or more) columns?? |
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