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RSS News Feed Hack · **Released**: 01-28-2004

My friend made this hack, he owns http://www.liquidpro.net. Check him out.
You may contact him at liquidpro@neo.rr.com. Or you can IM him on AIM at LiquidPro10.

An example is shown at http://www.xtreme-forumz.net. Go to the Techno forum under the General category. Then the CNET News sub-forum.

RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.0. As long as vBulletin doesn't change the database structure much, this should be good for the next release also, and those to come.

Allows you to have a live RSS news feed (such as one from Google or CNET) in a forum. The user that posts it will basically be a bot, which *should* only be used for posting the news, but you can even make it for a regular user.

Comments are welcome!

Instructons:
Note: DON'T FORGET TO MAKE A BACKUP OF EACH FILE BEFORE YOU MODIFY IT!

Copy the files to your web server... keep the same directory structure as in the zip file.
Run the rss_install.php file to setup the RSS script.
If you're upgrading run the rss_upgrade.php file to setup the RSS script. Don't forget to remove all previous modifications (you can find them by searching for "LiquidPro")

#### open the /index.php script ####
Find this:

PHP Code:


			
require_once('./includes/functions_forumlist.php');

Add below it:

PHP Code:


			
require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php');

#### open the /forumdisplay.php script ####
Find this:

PHP Code:


			
require_once('./includes/functions_forumdisplay.php');

Add below it:

PHP Code:


			
require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php');

#### open the /admincp/index.php script ####

Find this:

PHP Code:


			
construct_nav_group("$vbphrase[styles] &amp; $vbphrase[templates]", '<hr />');

Add below it:

PHP Code:


			
// Manage Hacks
// by: Andrew Wickham
// LiquidPro Inc.
//
construct_nav_option('RSS News Feed', 'rss_admin.php', '<br />');
construct_nav_group('Hacks');
//
// End Manage Hacks

You're done, thanks for installing the hack.

Hack by: Andrew Wickham (http://www.liquidpro.net)
Hack for: Xtreme-Forumz (http://www.xtreme-forumz.net)

wolfstream · #**137** 03-29-2004, 01:02 AM

If it didn't work, make sure you haven't been banned from the feed itself. Those fixes WILL fix the problem of not updating, I know, I had the very same problem myself. There are 2, maybe 3 fixes that should be made.

As far as releases, well, who knows. The code works if you apply the fixes, but you've got to apply them all to get it to work

wolfstream · #**138** 03-29-2004, 04:50 AM

Ok, I just took a few minutes and put together a WORKING install of this.
The file edits have been taken down to 1 and the cron script IS included.
The only thing different between this and the first zip is the file edits and the bugs have been fixed in rss_update.php.

I just tested this, and installed it on vb3 gold. There's no question in my mind it's working.
When you design the forums for these, you'll want to make sure that the forum handles html, otherwise you'll have a problem.

Action-N · #**139** 03-29-2004, 04:50 AM

I installed this one an managed to get it to update three times. Not sure what it takes to get it to update, but it does work. I do think it makes a difference on which feed you use. The CNET 5 news is what is working for me, the Yahoo news feed is one I found scary. Loaded the forum with about three pages of posts, stupid crap. So that forum is gone. Now I wanted to ask how I can I allow only the bot to post, with forum closed to all other users.

P.S. The really need to move this one to Beta releases, sorry Xyphen.

MrNase · #**140** 03-31-2004, 11:07 AM

Funny, it's not working with the vB3 newsfeeds

sjau · #**141** 04-02-2004, 10:07 AM

Going to install it today on vB3 Gold and checking how it works... have it running fine on RC3

LoOnEyToOnZ · #**142** 04-02-2004, 01:42 PM

Guys... how can i get Yahoo RSS feed unto my forums with this ? I already installed this hack, just dunno how to use Yahoo RSS

rockergrrl · #**143** 04-02-2004, 02:19 PM

Yahoo RSS is located here:
http://news.yahoo.com/rss/

Find the topic that you want and copy the URL to the feed.

It will update (works for me).

LoOnEyToOnZ · #**144** 04-02-2004, 03:01 PM

ic... Tonya do you just copy the url like http://news.yahoo.com/rss/tech/ ?

Or does it have to end with a .xml ?

Also... please check out my forums www.sgwhz.com and under Industry News.... you see the RSS by Yahoo! Tech. When you click on the view full article link it comes out to a error page on Yahoo....any idea why it happens ?

dethfire · #**145** 04-02-2004, 05:06 PM

I installed the new version and when I run the cron I get this error:
Warning: mysql_query(): Unable to save result set in /htdocs/www/includes/db_mysql.php on line 212

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM post ORDER By postid DESC
mysql error: MySQL client run out of memory

mysql error number: 2008

I only added two bots

Vb-Hispano · #**146** 04-02-2004, 05:59 PM

Thanks very much for your work

rockergrrl · #**147** 04-02-2004, 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoOnEyToOnZ

ic... Tonya do you just copy the url like http://news.yahoo.com/rss/tech/ ?

Or does it have to end with a .xml ?

For Yahoo tech feeds use this url:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech

http://news.yahoo.com/rss/tech/ is just the general list of Feeds that are available. Copy the URL next to the subject you want listed.

PlenoJure · #**148** 04-02-2004, 09:17 PM

LoOnEyToOnZ, the reason that happens is because of an html decoding bug, here's what I did to fix it:

In ./includes/RSS/rss_update.php Find:

PHP Code:


			
$rss_description .= "\n\n[url=" . $rss_allItems[$j][LINK] . "]View the Entire Article[/url]\n";

UNDER that ADD:

PHP Code:


			
$rss_description = html_entity_decode($rss_description);

$rss_title = html_entity_decode($rss_title);

That fix is running on 2 forums and seems to work well.

dethfire · #**149** 04-02-2004, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dethfire

I installed the new version and when I run the cron I get this error:
Warning: mysql_query(): Unable to save result set in /htdocs/www/includes/db_mysql.php on line 212

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM post ORDER By postid DESC
mysql error: MySQL client run out of memory

mysql error number: 2008

I only added two bots

anyone got a suggestion for my problem?

Leah · #**150** 04-02-2004, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dethfire

I installed the new version and when I run the cron I get this error:
Warning: mysql_query(): Unable to save result set in /htdocs/www/includes/db_mysql.php on line 212

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM post ORDER By postid DESC
mysql error: MySQL client run out of memory

mysql error number: 2008

I only added two bots

Same error here.

And also, the posts doesn't show up.

dethfire · #**151** 04-03-2004, 10:20 PM

no posts because mysql runs out of memory

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