VBSyndicate Hack V1

Synopsis

This hack allows webmaster to provide syndicated VB content to other webmasters such as Latest topics, Latest Polls or calendar entries to other webmasters for inclusion on their websites. The webmasters using the feeds do NOT need PHP, PERL, MYSQL, ASP just a javascript enabled browser.

Requirements

* Crontab
* The ability to run PHP via the command line

Example

http://cpfc.org/news/newsfeed.html

Please note the documentation is sketchy and if your aren't savvy with hacking code yourself then maybe you should wait until the documentation is up to speed.

[Steve Machol]

This works great except for one problem - it only pulls threads from my first forum (with forumid 24.) How do I get it to pull the last 10 threads from all my open forums?

http://www.optiboard.com/newsfeed.html

[Scott MacVicar]

em bah i made a mistake with the forum permissions, it only worked if you had access masks on. Reworked it and it now takes it from all forums. See attachment below.

Updated to connect to the database a different way.

[mkilty]

Hmmm.....I am getting a blank page except one time when it did work.

When I /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://url.com/to/activefeed.php it had NO error code and the .js script was touch with a new date but the page came up empty. This is after it worked the first time.

I am using your latest version of the script as well. Any idea's?

Thanks,

Michael
www.clublexus.com

[Steve Machol]

Thanks PPN! Works perfectly now.

One question though. Is there anyway to disable the cookie-setting when newsfeed.php is run? Running it even shows up in Who's Online.

Looks quite interesting.

But is this possible without the cron facility ?
Without the facility to run php from command line ?

Any clues ?

Thanks

[Scott MacVicar]

if you can't use lynx use this

change newsfeed.php to newsfeed.cgi and at the top add #!/usr/bin/php

this is my presuming the path to your PHP

then add the following cronjob

/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/htdocs/newsfeed.cgi

an alternative to cronjob would involve editing the vb php files, It shouldn't be to hard to do, all you would need to do it include the newsfeed.php where you want it to execute.

[Steve Machol]

PPN, do you know how to disable the cookie-setting?

[Scott MacVicar]

instead of

PHP Code:

require("./global.php"); 


use

PHP Code:

//load config
require("./admin/config.php");

// init db **********************
// load db class
$dbclassname="./admin/db_$dbservertype.php";
require($dbclassname);

$DB_site=new DB_Sql_vb;

$DB_site->appname="vBulletin Control Panel";
$DB_site->appshortname="vBulletin (cp)";
$DB_site->database=$dbname;
$DB_site->server=$servername;
$DB_site->user=$dbusername;
$DB_site->password=$dbpassword;

$DB_site->connect();

$dbpassword="";
$DB_site->password="";
// end init db 


this is the simple way to do it, there must be an easy way to do it but I would have to search through all the functions.

[Steve Machol]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

[Steve Machol]

It didn't work. It seems to have broken the newsfeed.php script altogether.

http://www.optiboard.com/newsfeed.html