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
look and see if there is any extra white space at the end of the file. ?> should be the very last thing, there shouldn't be anything else after it, not even spaces.
I believe this is the most comprehensive database of all RSS Newsfeeds websites: http://www.syndic8.com/. Hopefully you'll find everything there you need.
look and see if there is any extra white space at the end of the file. ?> should be the very last thing, there shouldn't be anything else after it, not even spaces.
Just checked that and no spaces, still click run now in schedule manager and same error message comes up and no posts have been made in the forum i set the bot up to.
I've got a problem with it to
Installed it AOK, ran the cron job and it picked up the news from the page I wanted it to...that was 2/3 days ago and it hasn't updated/got anymore news since then
Any ideas why?
I re ran the cron job and it didn't update it either.
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06-24-2004, 09:59 PM
