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.

[Mecho]

thanks but still the same !! blank pages with some sections .. as i checked all sections i guess i got blank pages for those sections that closed for guests !! but i was logged in

so the question is that guests should not see feeds , right ? so i have to exclude those sections in rss feed options ! but what about login members ( as i said i was logged in but i couldnt saw those feeds ) ??!

[Roflstilzchen]

nice addon, thx :up:

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

thanks but still the same !! blank pages with some sections .. as i checked all sections i guess i got blank pages for those sections that closed for guests !! but i was logged in

so the question is that guests should not see feeds , right ? so i have to exclude those sections in rss feed options ! but what about login members ( as i said i was logged in but i couldnt saw those feeds ) ??!

Send a PM with the specific URL where the blank page occurs. The last PM you sent was just the generic URL to your RSS feeds page script. Send the exact URL you are going to and what exactly you are clicking on what the 'blank page' occurs.

[Mecho]

they r alot . i sent some of them ..

thanks

[Doug Nelson]

I'm getting the same error that is on the demo page:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 47

[Doug Nelson]

Could we get child-forums feeding with parents? And maybe clean up tertiary forums display (sub-sub-forums)? If you can do the first, I don't need the second.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

they r alot . i sent some of them ..

thanks

Got your PM, thanks. Looks like you're having a problem with external.php not showing you any threads and not a problem with this script. I replied to your PM with a theory of what I think is going on.

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

I'm getting the same error that is on the demo page:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 47

You found a bug. If CMPS is installed on the site and the page is not being integrated with CMPS then the error occurs. The way the old CMPS 2.x & older integration worked it requires a file to be included and the method I was previously doing always included the file if it found it. Apparently it doesn't like that with CMPS 3.x so now I'm wrapping the file include inside of a conditional. I'll post an updated version this afternoon.

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

Could we get child-forums feeding with parents? And maybe clean up tertiary forums display (sub-sub-forums)? If you can do the first, I don't need the second.

I have to admit... I have not had enough caffeine yet today so I'm not sure what you're asking for. Could you elaborate a bit?

[Vinyljunky]

Works fine for me

However, I have a dumb question

Where is the best place to show a link to cv_rss_feeds.php ?

Somebody suggested the code below, but Im not sure where to put it.

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/cv_rss_feeds.php" target="_self" title="$vboptions[hometitle] RSS Feeds"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif" border="0" alt="$vboptions[hometitle] RSS Feeds" /></a>

As you have probabley guessed Im not a coder

Thanks

VinylJunky

[Illustrious]

Having an update log would be nice. I have no clue what you changed in the latest version.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Vinyljunky

Works fine for me

However, I have a dumb question

Where is the best place to show a link to cv_rss_feeds.php ?

Somebody suggested the code below, but Im not sure where to put it.

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/cv_rss_feeds.php" target="_self" title="$vboptions[hometitle] RSS Feeds"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif" border="0" alt="$vboptions[hometitle] RSS Feeds" /></a>

As you have probabley guessed Im not a coder

Thanks

VinylJunky

It's really a question of where do you want to present the link to your visitors. Some sites, IMHO, go overboard and have an RSS link just about everywhere they can squeeze it in and others bury if RSS feeds are not considered a major item for them. At least for me personally I went with just a link in my footer template (eg: scroll to the bottom of the page). If you come up with a spot of where you'd like the link, and whether you want a graphic link or a text link, just let me know where and I'll walk you through changing the template.

Originally Posted by Illustrious

Having an update log would be nice. I have no clue what you changed in the latest version.

Originally Posted by KW802

Check post #2

Besides post #2 in this thread I also usually post a more detailed explanation over at CinVin and as a reply here as well.