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.
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!
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
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.
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Please see for your self How do i get it to change please?
Actually "forumids" is the proper one. What kind of permissions do you have on forum #90? When I try to view your forum #90 (here) as a guest I get a permission denied message which means that as a guest I would also be unable to view the RSS feeds for it.
but not on this 1... actually i just figured out a little more, anything that guests
cannot see is showing as a blank page!!!
Yep on both accounts.
Inside of "external.php" (the actual stock vBulletin script that products the RSS feeds) it is looking for "forumids" so if you use "forumid" instead it'll just ignore it and behave as if you didn't specify any options at all. If the guest does not have permissions to view anything then it will produce a blank page. That is why "forumids=90" produces a blank page (because it's the right variable but no permission to view a a guest) while "forumid=90" produces output (because it's the wrong variable so it's being ignored and it instead shows any & all forums that a guest does have access to).
So, Why would this show as a blank page for me when i am admin, it shows a blank page on the pages that guests cant see, or did you explain that i am that thick i couldnt understand it lol
Is there a fix or is it as is? Cause i will assume that all members will get this blank page
strange problem.. i'm getting an error just trying to unzip it on a mac..lol
That actually doesn't surprise me. The zip file was created through the CinVin products system which is a version of the same one used at vBadvanced which... sometimes has problems with zip files on Macs. Give me a few minutes to attach a tar file to the first post which usually works on a Mac.
EDIT: Well, it turns out that .tar is an invalid attachment her at vB.org so I had to go with Plan B. I rezipped the file in post #1 above using the internal functions of WindowsXP and re-attached the file. Please try now.
Are you sure you uploaded all of the files, in particular the PHP file? I just took a look at your link and your descriptions still have HTML in them which means the PHP file is version 1.0.1 or older (in version 1.0.2 stripping the HTML from the descriptions is default).
ok, made sur i re-upped and now i have the same issues as bashy
Looks like there is still an issue with at least one of the templates. Please try the following...
In your ACP uninstall the product and then install a fresh copy from 1.0.2 release.
Upload a fresh copy of the 1.0.2 PHP file.
In your ACP choose ACP => vBulletin Options => External Data Provider => Thread Cutoff and bump that number up! The default is something like 30 (if I remember correctly) and some of your forums have no recent activity in them so for those forums you'll get a 'blank' feed since there were no recent threads within the cutoff period. In FF nothing is displayed but in IE you'll see the XML container. That's why, for example, the "PC Games" RSS feed will be blank in FF but the "PC Games Reviews & Previews" RSS feed isn't.
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12-08-2006, 02:22 PM
Thanks for downloading the new version and letting me know it worked. 
