[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

[Azhrialilu]

very sweet.. as always!

[Blam Forumz]

Nice work ZT ^^

[Vizionz]

<a href="http://feedfinder.feedster.com/" target="_blank">http://feedfinder.feedster.com/</a> <---- might help for finding feeds

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

http://feedfinder.feedster.com/ <---- might help for finding feeds

Great! Thank you, sir.

Ok, I'vce never done this before. How do I go about getting the feed going for the link I found?

Theres a bug with the latest post on forumhome. Instead of showing the newest RSS feed on the latest post, it's showing the oldest RSS Feed.

Anyone else having this problem?

[Zero Tolerance]

Good resource, it finds sites and each result will have a button, which says "RSS", click that for the feed, if it's formatted like a normal website instead of code you'll have to view the source code to see how it's structured, from there on the help in the forum feeds control will help you set it up

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[Vizionz]

<a href="https://www.cnet.com/4520-6022-5115113.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnet.com/4520-6022-5115113.html</a> start reading thats where i am researching myself. i can just get headlines so far instead of full stories.

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally Posted by Danny.VBT

Theres a bug with the latest post on forumhome. Instead of showing the newest RSS feed on the latest post, it's showing the oldest RSS Feed.

Anyone else having this problem?

That's because vBulletin uses a global variable for the time function (TIMENOW), the system adds all -new- feeds one by one, but keeps to the same time because of this.

If you want in the next version i can make it increase the last added time by 1 second, so the sort order should be correct

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[Boofo]

Ok, here's a link I came up with. Is this an RSS link then?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/frtc/data/atom/

And is it a one time shot or regular? Sorry to sound so ignornat on this, but this is my first time at this. So, please be gentle.

[XtremeOffroad]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Ok, here's a link I came up with. Is this an RSS link then?



And is it a one time shot or regular? Sorry to sound so ignornat on this, but this is my first time at this. So, please be gentle.

You'll want to look for the link ending with rss.xml and add that link along with the feed info into the rss feeds.

Look at the description at zero tolerance's Example BBC UK News Feed: