[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

[Dream]

did the upgrade update the version number? it shows 1.5 in my product manager

[drdaco]

I found that if I make the ficticious user a supermod I can get it to work.

Just letting you guys know, those with the

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

[trilljester]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

Neither of the above you suggested fixed it. The 1.6 version ZT released fixed it quite well


On another note, is anyone experiencing a case of Deja Vu with the RSS 1.6 version?

Hmmm, well, I'm running 1.5, and had the same exact error as everyone else, I made the feed user a moderator of the forum, and have not got an error since. It fixed it for several others also.

[garrynewman]

I'm trying to get this stream to work

http://steampowered.com/rss.xml

But it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag.

Anyone got any suggestions?

[phantomatvietna]

Thanks for the hack ! It's very useful !

[drdaco]

I noticed that too. I too have an rss link whose parent tag is RDF:rdf but also ends in xml.

Originally Posted by garrynewman

I'm trying to get this stream to work

http://steampowered.com/rss.xml

But it doesn't seem to understand rdf, rdf:RDF or rdf: as the parent tag.

Anyone got any suggestions?

[c0d3x]

the dupe problem is still present :\

[Blindchild02]

http://www.prowrestling.com/index.ph...n=other&id=rss

how do i add the 'main headlines' to it?

EDIT: NM!

works great! http://www.hulkforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=28

[trilljester]

Originally Posted by Blindchild02

http://www.prowrestling.com/index.ph...n=other&id=rss

how do i add the 'main headlines' to it?

Plug this address into the Detect RSS Settings box:
http://prowrestling.com/php-bin/rss/....php%3Fid=news

It should tell you what to do.

[Blindchild02]

hahah yeah i got it! i edited my post !