[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

[pcoskat]

ok, please excuse my lame-ness, but I only understand things from an 'end user' perspective. Do I understand how this extension works?

- This works with the most recent version of VB
- I can use it have posts from my WordPress blog, appear as posts in my vB in whatever forum I designate

Did I get that right?

If so, I am so in love with whomever created this. Love, love, love!

[trilljester]

If your Wordpress blog spits out RSS feeds, then sure, this will do that.

[pcoskat]

Originally Posted by trilljester

If your Wordpress blog spits out RSS feeds, then sure, this will do that.

What actually appears in the vB post?

A link to the feed, or all of the text in a specific article?

[trilljester]

I think it depends on what you configured to output in your RSS feed.

Check out one of my RSS Feed posts from Roger Ebert:
http://www.trilliummud.com/holos/showthread.php?t=375

[Mellow]

Sweet!... thank you sir..

[garrynewman]

I made kind of a hacky bounce script to solve the rdf:RDF problem.

It's probably better that the plugin is fixed but this will tide us over until then..

Make a php file with this in it..

<?

	$h = fopen( "http://steampowered.com/rss.xml", "r" );

	while (!feof($h))
	{
		$rss .= fgets($h, 4096);
	}
	
	$rss = str_replace( "</channel>", "", $rss );
	$rss = str_replace( "</rdf:RDF>", "</channel>\n</rdf:RDF>", $rss );
	$rss = str_replace( "content:encoded", "content", $rss );
		
	echo $rss;

?>

Now use the address of that script as your RSS feed (the auto detect thing should be able to figure it out)

[HC.]

need help
On update I get this
While attempting to parse the document located at the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified ()

Please check settings related to this issue.

What need to be added to make this work
Please tell me where and what to add in every box so I can learn from my mistake

[HC.]

error on detect

[HC.]

another error playing around

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

[HC.]

I am lost
I have tried several different ways but nothing works
I had it take the feed but no new posts