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.

[kollam003]

updated thanks

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Mecho

Thanks man but i havent got any reply ... any help would appreciate

You did get a reply but, as I mentioned, the problem with a blank page when viewing "external.php" is not related to this script. The file external.php is the stock RSS generator that comes with vBulletin; this script just points to it. I mentioned in one of my PMs one possible reason why you would not see anything when viewing the external.php page but, as I also mentioned, I can't verify if that is the reason or not because when viewing your site as a guest I can not see the forums in question.

There is only so much I can do to help out with a problem that is not related to code I've written/released and without being able to see all parts of the problem.

[Mecho]

thanks but question is am i only person that i have this problem ??! if yes so it means something wrong with my forum or what ??

thanks

[Alfa1]

Is this compatible wit NuSEO?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is this compatible wit NuSEO?

Honestly... I have no idea. I use vBSEO on my sites and none of the sites I can try it out on run NuSEO. With vBSEO they offer a developers area for with docs on how developers can integrate their script... if NuSEO has something similar then I'd be more than happy to give it a shot, just point me in the right direction.

[Chadi]

How do I remove the white thin border (1px in size) entirely? I prefer to also have alternating row colors (alt1, alt2) instead. Please explain how to go about doing this. Thanks.

[Neal-UK]

I've just upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 GOLD on both my sites, and when I try to view the feed page now I get this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_forum_info() in /**/**/**/*****/**/html/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

[Doug Nelson]

Glad I held off on the vbseo 3.1 upgrade. I would like to see this fixed.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Neal-UK

I've just upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 GOLD on both my sites, and when I try to view the feed page now I get this:

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

Glad I held off on the vbseo 3.1 upgrade. I would like to see this fixed.

I'm running the last beta 3.0.1e, at Cool Sci-Fi with no issues so I'm surprised that they would've changed something between that beta and releasing it as Gold.

I'll be upgrading the site to 3.1.0 Gold today so I'll check it out.

[KW802]

Well, it turns out that they cleaned up their function names with the Gold release and in /includes/functions_vbseo.php they renamed "get_forum_info()" to "vbseo_get_forum_info()" to be consistent. That breaks, as you can see, the script.

I'll be posting an update later today at some point to handle it (I need to handle it for both 3.1.x and now older versions) but in the mean time if you've upgraded to vBSEO 3.1.0 Gold and have the error then do a search & replace in your cv_rss_feeds.php file for the changed function name.