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.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by KW802

Considering that it was a holiday week (I prefer spending time with the family & friends, not being online) and that both issues (vBSEO 3.1 gold and the link problems) have been addressed your criticism is a bit unfounded. Heck, Peggy, you yourself posted what the issue is with the links over at vBFAQ. :erm:

I did? Sorry I don't remember, lol. Sorry Kev, I didn't see the link question asked here, and I'd just come from your site where questions had been asked and no reply was posted, from October, so I'm sure you can understand the frustration. I hope you had a good holiday!

Originally Posted by KW802

For the links problem turn off the option to include the template names in your HTML output in your ACP (shouldn't be turned on anyway in a production environment).

Thanks again

[ChurchMedia]

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I don't want the first list of links to show -- only the ones with feeds. See the screenshot and my feeds page at http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/rss_feeds.php.

Thanks for the great mod! I got it working with vBseo 3.1 by just changing "get_forum_info();" to "vbseo_get_forum_info();" in the cv_rss_feeds.php file.

[711]

KW802, you may have missed this question with all the chaos and misunderstanding going on in the last few posts:

Any instructions you can give to include the vBulletin Blog RSS feed into the page?

Originally Posted by 711

Great Mod!
Also, it would be great to somehow include the main vBulletin Blog RSS feed (or other various RSS feeds a site may have) on this page as well. I couldn't figure out how to hard code that in to the templates. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[KW802]

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I don't want the first list of links to show -- only the ones with feeds. See the screenshot and my feeds page at http://www.churchmedia.net/CMN/rss_feeds.php.

{Scratches my head at this one.} Do you have any other 'sitemap' type hacks installed? That code doesn't appear to be generated from this script and the very first line should be the generic "The Church Media Community" master link (the first line that actually has an RSS button on it). My guess would be that it's picking up a global variable set by a different hack/add-on somewhere and is including it in the output. If you can think of what 'sitemap' hack you might have installed I'll take a look at it to see why there is a conflict, else I'll go back and see what I can to do prevent it generically.

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

Thanks for the great mod! I got it working with vBseo 3.1 by just changing "get_forum_info();" to "vbseo_get_forum_info();" in the cv_rss_feeds.php file.

Exactly. The next version will check to see if vbseo_get_forum_info function is defined else use the get_forum_info function for compatibility with the older versions of vBSEO. There haven't been too many vBSEO 3.1 Gold complaints so I've been holding off on releasing the 2.3.1 version to see if there are any other features/fixes I need to put in there.

Originally Posted by 711

KW802, you may have missed this question with all the chaos and misunderstanding going on in the last few posts:

Any instructions you can give to include the vBulletin Blog RSS feed into the page?

Yep, I missed that one, sorry.

What are your thoughts on how it should be included? A generic link to the blogs if I detect that the blogs are installed or perhaps some type of entry box in the ACP for people to type in additional links manually or a different method? Where do think additional links should appear, above or below the list of forum links?

With so many packages now offering RSS feeds (eg: vBulletin, vBulletin Blogs, vBadvanced Dynamics, PhotoPost Pro & PhotoPost vBGallery, etc.) I not visualizing yet how it should be handled. If you (or anybody else reading this and would like to help out with ideas) can help me get a grasp on the best way of handling it visually I can work on the code.

[ChurchMedia]

Originally Posted by KW802

{Scratches my head at this one.} Do you have any other 'sitemap' type hacks installed? That code doesn't appear to be generated from this script and the very first line should be the generic "The Church Media Community" master link (the first line that actually has an RSS button on it). My guess would be that it's picking up a global variable set by a different hack/add-on somewhere and is including it in the output. If you can think of what 'sitemap' hack you might have installed I'll take a look at it to see why there is a conflict, else I'll go back and see what I can to do prevent it generically.

I thought it was odd. It's been doing that ever since I install the mod. I scanned the feeds code and the templates and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. I don't have any site map hacks. I can list my mods if that would help.

[virus9112002]

Nice one, installed, thanks!

[Mecho]

KW802 , in my forum Guests can see the forums but they can not Read threads so all the sections shows up in cv_rss_feed.php but in closed sections we get blank page .

do u have anyidea how can i fix it ??

thanks

[Pottsy]

Sorry - had a problem with vbseo 3.1 but fixed it by reading this.

[Alfa1]

I see you have a unanswered question from last august on your forum about the BFO option of this hack. So do you provide a branding free version of this hack?

[phvt]

Thank you for such a helpful mod! (installed)

I did find one small issue:

The cv_ffl_forum_link template has several newlines at its end which end up in the link output. These newlines were preventing vBSEO from replacing the forumhome link with the correct URL--but the newlines may cause other problems as well.