[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[hobbes747]

Zero Tolerance, wow, just wow. This is so incredibly cool. Thank you!

Is there anyway to limit how many articles it gets from a feed? Or how often it updates per feed? Would it need a cron for each feed? Like, CNN updates regularly but Wired not so much. I'm getting duplicate threads.

Also, it has some issue with getting a feed from Slashdot due to their formatting. Is there a way to set it up to accept it? http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

Is there anyway this could be hacked to post to a specific thread? Like say I had a weather thread and just wanted the feed to post at the end of it?

What about specifying the thread icon for each feed?

[Kirk Y]

This is just what I was looking for... God I love youe Zero.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

man I am sooo jealous...everyone's seems to be working but mine.

[Gizmo5h1t3]

upgraded, works a treat like it always has done.
only thing is, its working a little TOO good.

as some of the feeds im grabbing arent updated as much as some of the others, im now getting shed loads of duplicates all over my board...

is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???

[monstergamer]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

man I am sooo jealous...everyone's seems to be working but mine.

mine works...

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

is there any way to control the number of feeds its grabbing???

i would like this as well

[Kirk Y]

When I select Run Now in the Scheduled Tasks for RSS Feeds Update, I get this error:

RSS Feeds Update
 
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/socom/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 4240

Edit: Also... I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem but a lot of times the feeds posted have html in them... I'd like the html displayed properly, but I don't want to turn HTML on in the Forum for all members to use. Is there anyway the HTML can be allowed only for Administrators, as I've set my Username as the one that's posting the RSS Feeds?

[Dream]

tried changing

PHP Code:

        $newpost['message'] = $message; 


for

PHP Code:

        $newpost['message'] = convert_url_to_bbcode($message); 


in class_ffrss.php with no luck

[Dream]

added

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_newpost.php'); 


after

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_databuild.php'); 


and now the links inside the news posts are automatically parsed ^_^

[Gizmo5h1t3]

im being over run by duplicate threads!!!!!

[rinkrat]

Mine's working great! I just put url tags around the story link in the setup.