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NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack · **Released**: 04-12-2004

Hack originally posted by: Xyphen - RSS News Feed Hack
Modified by: wolfstream - Modified RSS News Feed Hack

I am posting this up as a new hack because of the major changes made to how the script works. Also, I didn't want people to get confused as to which one to download since there were 3 different versions on the original post.

Xyphen released the original version, then wolfstream modified the script and corrected some errors. After that, I modified wolfstreams version to change how posts were inserted. Now the post count will increase, posts will be able to be searched, and similiar threads will work.

RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.x. As long as vBulletin doesn't change the database structure much, this should be good for the next release also, and those to come.

Allows you to have a live RSS news feed (such as one from Google or CNET) in a forum. The user that posts it will basically be a bot, which *should* only be used for posting the news, but you can even make it for a regular user.

Comments are welcome! Support provided through this thread.

Latest Version:
- 1.26 - for PHP 4.3.0 & above
- 1.26a - for PHP prior to 4.3.0

vBulletin Versions:
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1

PHP Versions:
- > 4.3.0
- < 4.3.0

Installation Overview:
- Files to edit: (2) /admincp/index.php, /includes/functions_newpost.php
- Files to upload: (4) rss.php, admincp/rss_admin.php, includes/RSS/class.RSS.php, includes/RSS/rss_update.php
- Queries to run: (4) in rss_install.php

History:
Version 1.26 (23 June 2004 - Slapyo, Natch)
- listing of bot's more intuitive (Natch)
- hopefully fixed duplicate problem (Slapyo)
- stripped html tags from title and description (Slapyo)

Version 1.25 (12 May 2004 - Slapyo)
- fix for " showing up
- logs action in scheduled task log if turned on

Version 1.24 (20 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now deleted with delete_thread function
- post counts updated when using delete all news

Version 1.23 (14 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- added ability to delete bots
- cleaned up includes
- fix for PHP versions prior to 4.3.0 calling html_entity_decode()

Version 1.22 (13 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- duplicate posts problem fixed
- fix for problem with ' appearing as \'

Version 1.21 (12 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- bot will not be subscribed to posts now

Version 1.2 (11 April 2004 - Slapyo)
- posts now inserted with build_new_post function

Version 1.1 (28 March 2004 - wolfstream)
- file edits taken down to 1
- cron script included

Version 1.0 (28 January 2004 - Xyphen)
- original release

Common RSS Feeds:
- Yahoo!
- CNET.com
- BBC
- Wired News
- The Register
- Ars Technica
- All Headline News

bishop93 · #**467** 12-13-2004, 04:56 PM

Here I thought this one would work when the other RSS mod didn't since this one seems actually promising with all the glowing reviews. But, I get this return from the cron job:

Code:

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/rss.php on line 2

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/rss.php on line 2

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

bishop93 · #**468** 12-14-2004, 01:16 PM

Nevermind. One of our devs got this to work. I have no idea how. But it seemed to be something about the cron setup wrong. It is, as I said, a most excellent mod.

bishop93 · #**469** 12-15-2004, 03:12 AM

Okay. I was wrong. Sorta. It's read and inserted once. I know that the feed has been updated once since then, but it's not updating the forum.

Why?

bishop93 · #**470** 12-15-2004, 09:50 PM

Does anyone have answers to these questions? Such functionality is brilliant option to my operations, at least, but I can see why these would be necessary to others.

mikehawk · #**471** 12-16-2004, 02:58 AM

Hey guys, I'm a hardcore noob:

rss.php

Warning: main(./includes/cron/rss.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.gambia/realopin/realopinion.com/realboards/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './includes/cron/rss.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.gambia/realopin/realopinion.com/realboards/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

What do I do? This happened when I ran the task.

mikehawk · #**472** 12-16-2004, 05:13 AM

Ok I changed the path in the task manager to rss.php in my main directory.. it wasn't in cron.

But now I get this error:

rss.php

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in /home/.gambia/realopin/realopinion.com/realboards/includes/functions_newpost.php on line 190

What could be wrong? Please help. :nervous:

mikehawk · #**473** 12-16-2004, 06:17 AM

Well its posts the updates now.. i hope it doesn't stop posting like some of the members on this board have experienced... :ermm: Its awesome though, great hack!

mikehawk · #**474** 12-18-2004, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikehawk

Well its posts the updates now.. i hope it doesn't stop posting like some of the members on this board have experienced... :ermm: Its awesome though, great hack!

Ok well my problem is this:

It updates when I manually run the task with one user, but it will only update again if I change the bot id to another user. It doesn't update again when the bot id is the same. What could be the problem? I have to use another users id everytime I want to update the feed.

CtrlAltDel · #**475** 01-02-2005, 03:24 PM

yeah im having the same problem

thing ran the initial time, and made the threads, now every subsiquent run of the script doesnt generate squat

quality...

CtrlAltDel · #**476** 01-02-2005, 04:09 PM

ah pubdate...well this sucks
time to try and figure out a way around this one

wattieuk · #**477** 01-03-2005, 10:03 AM

I had the 'not updating' problem but if you look back one page to this message:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=462
I say how it was sorted out - works fine now.

jshafer817 · #**478** 01-09-2005, 05:34 PM

I had this hack installed but I uninstalled it hoping that another hack could pull off what I wanted to do.
I am trying to read an rss feed thats been encoded in utf-8
Is this possible for me to do???

Thanks for your time! I could have never gotten this far without all of yaulls help.

H2k · #**479** 02-02-2005, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mirdin

You'll have to ask your host to upgrade to a more recent version of PHP.

Or if you follow the link to the php function I posted before, it shows this code:

PHP Code:


			
// For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this:

function unhtmlentities($string) 

{

   $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);

   $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);

   return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);

}



$c = unhtmlentities($a);



echo $c; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now



?>

If upgrading PHP is not possible for you then you could try to replace the html_entity_decode function using this example.

By the way, has anyone managed to fix the double post issues? I have these issues with both yahoo and bbc feeds.

Why when i run it some time i get this error

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/myuser/public_html/includes/functions_databuild.php on line 480

Neutral Singh · #**480** 02-15-2005, 04:16 AM

Gr8 Hack !! Just installed version 1.26 ... I have some issues...

1. When I first ran the cron job manually to test and refreshed the forumpage. it automatically logged me in as that bot member whose id i had used to add the new bot.

2. Then it did not show up the forums at all... i mean on going to index page it only showed headings --> Forums - Last Post - Threads - posts, but no forum was showing. I had to delete the bot all together to show the forums on index page.

3. Strangly, in all this hick ups, the rss feed was succesfully entered as new threads but with one more issue... the following is what is showing up... The thing in bold below is spoiling the show.

Daily Times, Pakistan - 8 hours ago... sculptures were prominent in reminding the people of their colonial past; the sculpture of Alfred Woolner, the vice chancellor of the Punjab University (1928 ...

I wonder what is the problem...

Please guide

Regards

fpouk · #**481** 02-20-2005, 05:29 PM

I was trying to install this mod for the RSS Feed for my forums..
I was running the install script that came with it... then it got to where it was adding data into my thread table and it just hung up...
I was like okay no problem... i will just go to phpmyadmin and do a repair on my thread table.. Well when i opened up phpmyadmin and went into my forums DB i notice that my thread table say's 0 Rows now.. when i click on the table it doesnt show anything.. it's just blank?

Well i tried to repair the table anyways but it just times out or something. It will get to about the 6th bar on my browser and just quit.

any help will be appreciated...

oh yeah... i cant access my forums or admin cp now because i get a internal server error

it's been giving me this internal server error ever since that install script crashed on me.

http://www.secfanatics.com

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