New Posting Features - RSS items as posts

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6
DESCRIPTION: RSS items are added as the posts of the choosen topic.
AUTHOR and IDEA: zCarot (www.zcarot.com)
INSTALLATION TIME: 2-5 minutes
DIFFICULTY: average

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

--------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and 4.1 can import RSS elements as threads and announcements.
This mod allows you to import them as messages as well!
It can be convenient for RSS with the important information which doesn't required to be discussed.

----------------------------------- REMARKS -----------------------------------

If the thread ID does not set, than the name of RSS feed will be the used as title of the topic.
If the topic still does not exist in the specified forum, it will be created with first item of RSS.
Practically all adjustments for display of RSS items as topics will influence on their display as posts.

---------------------------- INSTALL & UPGRADE ----------------------------

See at readme.txt

------------------------------------ HISTORY -----------------------------------

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

[Jasem]

useful. Thanx

[kollam003]

can we get the full messgaes from the Feeds other than quoting Read for More.....

[zCarot]

kollam003
If you are using RSS feed from vBulletin forums then try to add "&fulldesc=1" to the end of the link.
For example:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/exter...s=1&fulldesc=1

[thompson]

i think it doesnt work with vbseo. it dont accept the thread id.

[peterska2]

Nice idea. It doesn't work properly on my site though.

I want to specify thread id's starting from 2722286 but the max that can be specified is 65535 so it is posting everything from all my feeds into one thread. Looking into the possibility of fixing this now though, if I get a fix I'll post it up in case anyone else has similar issues.

[edit 1]
I've changed the threadid field in the rssfeed table added by this product to an INT(11). I'll report back if this gets it working.

[edit 2]
Yup - that worked. I suggest you update the installation query in the XML to make the field an INT(11) instead so that it will work for people with larger forums/more threads than 65535

[dcw]

Hmm some reason it is missing the admincp\rssposter.php or atleast in what I just downloaded there isn't one in it, I downloaded 3tiems and stilll nothing. I just get the include folder.

[TheInsaneManiac]

Anyway to make the More thing go away and just post the whole topic instead of a More link?

[jerrygad]

Originally Posted by dcw

Hmm some reason it is missing the admincp\rssposter.php or atleast in what I just downloaded there isn't one in it, I downloaded 3tiems and stilll nothing. I just get the include folder.

It is not in his zip file, but you can find it in your admincp\rssposter.php, I think.

[netzrate]

Works fine!
Thank you

[peterska2]

One request that would make this perfect:

- Start a new thread after x replies

Also, a bug:

- If the threadid is set to 0 and the RSS bot runs two or more feeds at the same time it jumbles the replies with the other feeds running at the same time. It doesn't set a threadid in these cases and continues for ever jumbling the posts with other threads created by other feeds. In these cases the forum settings for the feeds are also ignored.