[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

[Vierie]

Originally Posted by thetoolman

hi,
i am having trouble.. it news articles are not posting themselves. instead i have to click on update feed manually for them to update. is there anyway i can fix this?

Same problem here.

If somebody had an idea how to resolve the problem with the special characters I would be grateful. Never realized how many of them are in a normale article. :ermm:

[jribz]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

read back thru this thread mate, everyones gettin em..

its prolly the only down side to this hack....otherwise it works a treat

I'm not getting any duplicate threads actually.... the one thing I did notice was that if I use a rss feed from say Yahoo, it will dup, but currently I am only using RSS feeds from my sites to headline news posts, seems to work fine on this end.

Not sure why items from some rss feeds duplicate, unless their feed somehow shows an older news item as a different story altogether. I have looked at the feeds that did dup on me, and couldn't figure anything out.

The only time it will dup for the feeds I use, is if we edit the article on the main site, thus updating the feed, so it would make sense that the script thinks it's a new item.

I haven't looked at the code for this, but perhaps adding a check to compare the title against news already posted would resolve the dup issue, if it's not already in there.

[trilljester]

Awesome mod, thanks! I had a similar hack installed on my Invision board, and now I've got it back!

Question: Some feeds include HTML, and by default, I've turned off all HTML on all boards. Is there a way to have my poster account use HTML in posts, but not allow it for anyone else?

[ajpritch]

I am having issues setting up my rss feed. Here is the link to the Rss feed http://www.ohiofirenews.com/rss/ofnrss_incidents.php I am not sure what I need to fill in so it will post right

[ajpritch]

Never mind I see that it is built into the software.

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Vierie

Same problem here.

If somebody had an idea how to resolve the problem with the special characters I would be grateful. Never realized how many of them are in a normale article. :ermm:

Just crossed my mind, I think you might have a problem with special charaters because there HTML characters and you don't have HTML enabled on the board your bots are posting into. Not sure, but that could be your problem!

I've noticed the "&b" space command causes problems and thats html

[Kirk Y]

I get the same deal... but when I go to the actual Blog, they're there too... so I figured it's their problem. Oh and someone just released a plug that allows Usergroups the ability to use HTML. I changed it around to allow Usernames, so I just give my bot the ability to post HTML, so now people can reply to the articles without you worrying about them using HTML.

[MRGTB]

I have an older version of this hack installed and don't have HTML enabled, and the posts seem to be displayed fine were I grab RSS XML news from.

[c0d3x]

i have the same problem of some people here... i have the same feeds posted again and again

[MRGTB]

Sounds like it not checking for the feeds already being there, that's bad!

The earlier version I have installed for vbulletin 3.8 works fine and doesn't suffer from that problem. Well not so far!