Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

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!
• 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.

[SpArKs85]

OMG! Fixed.

I didn't notice the RSS option... Something so simple... lol

Thanks!

[Cocko]

Maybe an off-topic question to this hack - but
why the yahoo integration doesn' update the feeds automatically

http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://www.mydomain.com/vb3/external.php

or

http://www.mydomain.com/vb3/external.php?forumids=17&lastpost=1

[JD45]

Originally Posted by KW802

Sometime shortly (next couple of days at worst) I'll be updating the code to have some more debugging information in it as well a few other fixes.

In the interim... if all of the forums are getting blank pages, make sure you have RSS feeds turned on in your ACP!

any luck?

[drdeathuk69]

<a href="http://www.muppets-clan.com/cv_rss_feeds.php" target="_blank">http://www.muppets-clan.com/cv_rss_feeds.php</a> heres mine please try n you will see blank page when click on rss image

[Hornstar]

Just wondering where would the best place to put a link to the rss page, would it be the footer, and would an RSS picture be better? could someone provide the code to do this as well

Thanks.

[ND4SPD]

Great mod. Thank you

[oemi1980]

Hi @all,

I use in my board the Zoints SEO hack (Mod_Rewrite) but zionts dos not work on the cv_rss_feeds.php.
what musst i do to get rewrite aso work on the cv_rss_feeds.php ?

sorry for my bad english, i working on it:surprised:

[da420]

It works for me on zoints w/ mod_rewrite

[oemi1980]

Originally Posted by da420

It works for me on zoints w/ mod_rewrite

Thats not true, i viseted you board and found the same content via 2 URL?s

For Example:

www.mindifidoaj.com/forum/world-f16.html (From Your Board Home)
www.mindifidoaj.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (From your cv_rss_feeds.php)

same content via 2 diffrent url?s = Double Content

Has anyone a soulution ?

[da420]

Originally Posted by oemi1980

Thats not true, i viseted you board and found the same content via 2 URL?s

For Example:

www.mindifidoaj.com/forum/world-f16.html (From Your Board Home)
www.mindifidoaj.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (From your cv_rss_feeds.php)

same content via 2 diffrent url?s = Double Content

Has anyone a soulution ?

Oh, it's not rewriting, i thought you were saying you were not able to access it.

That doesn't bother me, as long as it works is all Im concerned about.