[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

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by Floris

I've upgraded the forum to 3.5.0 gold, and now the news forum is getting bombarded with nothing but duplicates. My guess is some little things changed in 3.5 gold and the plugin might need to adapt . Hopefully it is something easy Until I figure it out (or someone else) I have disabled the plugin.

Least you are getting feeds...I have to manually run the script to get them and it errors out, but post one thread.

I have uninstalled until it is figured out as well.

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Right Here

That only parses URLs into BBCode. I no longer need this now that I'm using a Plugin to parse a specific user's posts.

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Ya I have tried a ton of different feeds, none of them will update. I think some things changed in Gold and this hacks does not work with it.

I'm using 3.5.0 Gold and the hack is working fine. There are no duplicate threads and no PHP/SQL errors. From my standpoint, nothing has changed from RC2/3 to Gold that will adversely affect this hack's functionality.

@Xtreme: RSS/XML feeds must be direct. They cannot be dynamic URLs.

Good: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feed.xml
Bad: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feedpuller.php?rss=feed.xml

[jribz]

I haven't updated from RC3 to Gold yet, but for those of you having the duplicate posts error...

Run the feed manually by clicking update feed, then delete any posts that were a duplicate, then run it again to see if there are more duplicates.

This solved my dup problem on RC3 believe it or not, after running it twice the cron runs never duped for me.

~ just a thought ~ :ermm:

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

That only parses URLs into BBCode. I no longer need this now that I'm using a Plugin to parse a specific user's posts.



I'm using 3.5.0 Gold and the hack is working fine. There are no duplicate threads and no PHP/SQL errors. From my standpoint, nothing has changed from RC2/3 to Gold that will adversely affect this hack's functionality.

@Xtreme: RSS/XML feeds must be direct. They cannot be dynamic URLs.

Good: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feed.xml
Bad: http://www.blablabla.com/bla/feedpul...p?rss=feed.xml

Well I used a test feed from yahoo:

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Does not work??

Used a test feed from msn:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/jpsdivings-page/feed.rss

Does not work??

What plugin did you use for the html?

[dieselpowered]

I just used the exact example he has at the top...still the same error.

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

[Vizionz]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Well I used a test feed from yahoo:

http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Does not work??

Used a test feed from msn:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/jpsdivings-page/feed.rss

Does not work??

What plugin did you use for the html?

it has to be xml at the end

[Kirk Y]

No, .rss should also work.

The Plugin For Allowed Usergroup HTML:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926

Try this for a Feed and see if the error still shows: http://socomblog.typepad.com/socom/rss.xml

[Vizionz]

same error

[Vierie]

My Cronjob doesn't seem to be working. I always have to update manually. Can anybody tell me why or how I can change that?

[thetoolman]

ok i have just upgrade vb to 3.5 gold and now when i add a rss feed and click update feed, i get this error:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

the old one works fine though.

any ideas?