New Posting Features - RSS items as posts

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6
DESCRIPTION: RSS items are added as the posts of the choosen topic.
AUTHOR and IDEA: zCarot (www.zcarot.com)
INSTALLATION TIME: 2-5 minutes
DIFFICULTY: average

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

--------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and 4.1 can import RSS elements as threads and announcements.
This mod allows you to import them as messages as well!
It can be convenient for RSS with the important information which doesn't required to be discussed.

----------------------------------- REMARKS -----------------------------------

If the thread ID does not set, than the name of RSS feed will be the used as title of the topic.
If the topic still does not exist in the specified forum, it will be created with first item of RSS.
Practically all adjustments for display of RSS items as topics will influence on their display as posts.

---------------------------- INSTALL & UPGRADE ----------------------------

See at readme.txt

------------------------------------ HISTORY -----------------------------------

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

---------------------------------- SCREENSHOTS -----------------------------------
Standard version
1 element = 1 thread:
Attachment 79188

My version.
1 rss feed = 1 thread:
Attachment 79189
1 element = 1 post:
Attachment 79190


YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

[Uberguilds]

Originally Posted by RTWAP

The plugin itself works fine but I'm constantly getting duplicate posts. Any reason?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[BirdOPrey5]

My guess is it's the RSS feed pushing out duplicate content. I get one RSS feed from PCWORLD that is always full of duplicates, seriously thinking of dropping them... But my others almost never have duplicates.

[zCarot]

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

Sorry for so long inactive time. If somebody still have some problems or questions - post them on the new thread. I will not answer in this thread anymore.

P.S. Click "Mark as Installed" in the new thread, if you want to recieve emails about future updates

Originally Posted by RTWAP

The plugin itself works fine but I'm constantly getting duplicate posts. Any reason?

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

My guess is it's the RSS feed pushing out duplicate content. I get one RSS feed from PCWORLD that is always full of duplicates, seriously thinking of dropping them... But my others almost never have duplicates.

Yep, it's your RSS feed problem. They change something (may be just add or remove one character, even a dot) => item have different md5 sum => you have a duplicate post

[nervice]

Originally Posted by ispots

Does anyone recognize this error?? I tried to install on vb4.0 and am getting this error.

I REAAALLY want this product to work!! I've gotten used to it!

I'm afraid this post was never answered. I have the same issue on vB 3.8.2.

Field threadid is not defined in $validfields in class vB_DataManager_RSSFeed in [path]/includes/class_dm.php

What can I do to solve this issue?

[nervice]

Sorry, my mistake.
I skipped one line in the install instructions ("3. In file includes\class_dm_rssfeed.php").
One needs to be really careful with all these code modifications.
It works now

[appsfinder]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function convert_wysiwyg_html_to_bbcode() in /home/myweb/public_html/includes/cron/rssposter.php(375) : eval()'d code on line 257

[MD_Hacker]

Is there a way of changing {feed:date} to only display the date in titles, rather than the date and time?