RSS News Feed Hack

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)

[sjau]

Originally Posted by Entourage

Installed it, works perfect. got 3 news feeds working lovely.

Have only a 2 questions:
- Is it possible to delete a complete bot?
- Possible to filter out the HTML tags?

How do you mean to delete a complete bot?

Filter out HTML - You can use php replace tags for that

[Entourage]

Originally Posted by sjau

How do you mean to delete a complete bot?

Well I added three bots now, I want to delete a bot from the Motify bot list.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Entourage

Well I added three bots now, I want to delete a bot from the Motify bot list.

I had the same problem Entourage and deleted the bot with phpMyAdmin directly from the DB. There is no build in option to do so.

I have also a question. The news feed is working well but only if there aren't already posts in the forum.

How can I use the sheduled task option to prune all posts from a special forum at a explicit time?

[pgowder]

When and how do the posts to the forum happen?

I've installed it and added a bot, when will the posts show up?

[PranK]

hooooolllleeeeey crap!

I installed this and I have never seen my server load and mem usage go so high before!!!

any ideas why?

Thanks.

Christian

[Okiewan]

Originally Posted by PranK

hooooolllleeeeey crap!

I installed this and I have never seen my server load and mem usage go so high before!!!

any ideas why?

Thanks.

Christian

I uninstalled it for the same reason.

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by pgowder

When and how do the posts to the forum happen?

I've installed it and added a bot, when will the posts show up?

Can anyone help? The source I'm using is:

http://IndianCountry.com/rss/index.php

[rockergrrl]

Did you remember to add a cron to the rss.php file ??

As the instructions say:
Open up your cron manager (in admincp->scheduled tasks -> add scheduled task) and add an entry for rss.php. You should update every hour at the most. The filename for this is ./rss.php.

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by rockergrrl

Did you remember to add a cron to the rss.php file ??

As the instructions say:
Open up your cron manager (in admincp->scheduled tasks -> add scheduled task) and add an entry for rss.php. You should update every hour at the most. The filename for this is ./rss.php.

I think I missed that!

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by rockergrrl

Did you remember to add a cron to the rss.php file ??

As the instructions say:
Open up your cron manager (in admincp->scheduled tasks -> add scheduled task) and add an entry for rss.php. You should update every hour at the most. The filename for this is ./rss.php.

I just downloaded the zip again, where did you see that?

This is what I have in the instructions:

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.

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

Find this:
require_once('./includes/functions_forumlist.php');

Add below it:
require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php');

#### open the /forumdisplay.php script ####

Find this:
require_once('./includes/functions_forumdisplay.php');

Add below it:
require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php');

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

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

Add below it:
// 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.