Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.

[KW802]

I've been offline for a bit guys/gals. I'll be going back through this thread for open issue.

[weedheaven]

Very nice addon. I have it now added aswell way down under in the page. *installed*

[obmob]

Originally Posted by irishblue

When I click on the RSS button, I get a link such as:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: cv_ffl_forum_feed_link -->http://www.mysite.com/forum/external.php<!-- END TEMPLATE: cv_ffl_forum_feed_link-->

instead of a proper link to a rss page.

I have enabled rss in the external options page. My external.php page displays fine. I have it installed in my mysite.com/forum/ folder.

Well i just installed this on my test forum, i enabled external data, then entered the feeds php and i'm getting similar links lke the one irishblue got.

This is my homepage link on rss feeds page

http://localhost/forum/%3C!--%20BEGIN%20TEMPLATE:%20cv_ffl_forum_link%20--%3Ehttp://localhost/forum/forum.php%3C!--%20END%20TEMPLATE:%20cv_ffl_forum_link%20--%3E

Did i do something wrong?

[majorxp]

@obmob & Irishblue

This is because you have template commenting on. Turn it off by going to the acp / general settings

change the setting for "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" to NO.

This is a great setting for testing, but should be normally off anyway.

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in other news, this is a great plugin!

/installed

[obmob]

Originally Posted by majorxp

@obmob & Irishblue

This is because you have template commenting on. Turn it off by going to the acp / general settings

change the setting for "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" to NO.

This is a great setting for testing, but should be normally off anyway.

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in other news, this is a great plugin!

/installed

Thank you majorxp!

[YabbaDabba]

Well, on an active forum (20K+ posts/week)

1 - CV's 1.0.2 xml imports smoothly.
2 - CV's php and image files upload smoothly.
3 - permissions on uploaded files set to 755
4 - External Data Provider options set as: Y, Y, Y, Y, 10, 90, 90
5 - external.php displays properly
6 - external.php?forumids=20 displays properly
7 - external.php?forumids=20&count=15 displays properly
8 - forums located in root: forums.mydomain.com/index.php
9 - some forums use simple html tags (bold; font color) in description
10 - Have multiple top-level (parent-less) forums (Main; Closed; Mod; Admin)
- Main is visible to all and postable by reg'd members
- Closed is visible to all and closed to posting (this is an "archive" where we throw old forums)
- Mod is Mod/Admin only
- Admin is Admin only
11 - No "link" forums
12 - No "category" forums
13 - Fiddled with colspan on some forumhome styles, but noit sure if that is what you are referring to.
14 - Not using vBSEO
15 - Not using VBA/CMPS (or any other portal)
16 - Not using Zoints
17 - vB 3.6.4
18 - PHP 4.3.9
19 - MySQL 4.1.20
20 - Linux/Apache 2
21 - xCache 1.2.0
22 - Logged in as admin
23 - Have 90 ForumManager entries, but actual forum ID count is now up to 112.
24 - Some "forums" are closed to new threads/posting and serve as a folder for sub-fora.

PROBLEM: cv_rss_feeds.php comes up blank in IE7 and FF2.0.0.2
IE reports just an empty html wrapper:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

But FF says the page is completely empty.

Also tried uninstalling and changing file name to rss.php (changed xml and php files).
After new install, same results.

And Debug=1 produces page containing only:

DEBUG MODE IS TURNED ON!<br />

Any help anyone?

[YabbaDabba]

WORKING!

<<I shouldn't do this stuff when I'm not feeling well. I coulda swore I did it right the first time. Oh well.>>

Anyway, once the file permissions were set (755) and the file's ownership (user/group) was set properly, it all worked as advertised.

KW802, my apologies for wasting your time.

INSTALLED.

[Luky]

Thanks sweet heart! This should be a default thing in vB. *pokes jelsoft*

[AzzidReign]

Any ETA for the vBSEO version? If you need a tester for vBSEO compatibility you can contact me. I just read all 13 pages and I'm getting the same results as all the other vBSEO users.

This is a wonderful hack...once I can get it to work lol. This should really be DEFAULT in vBulletin (like it is for IPB...IPB has many more options for RSS which saddens me ).

[ams3521]

Hello could someone tell me how to manually update one of my rss feed's Builddate whilst using this hack? Thanks and great work by the author.