Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.

[David_R]

RSS feeds are not generated via templates.. Rss feeds from our domain has to be added to feedburner account, since we are using cinvin feeds for a long time.
It has become a requirement now

[U.K.Visuals]

Hello guys. i have the same problem like two other guys some pages ago:

The requested URL /<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: cv_ffl_forum_feed_link -->http://board.mydomain.com/external.php<!-- END TEMPLATE: cv_ffl_forum_feed_link --> was not found on this server.

does anybody knows a solution for this problem? i didn't found anything in this thread yet.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by U.K.Visuals

Hello guys. i have the same problem like two other guys some pages ago:



does anybody knows a solution for this problem? i didn't found anything in this thread yet.

I must've been a while since I don't remember that one but just edit your cv_ffl_forum_feed_link and remove the HTML comment tags.

[U.K.Visuals]

in the cv_ffl_forum_feed_link i have just this:

PHP Code:

$vboptions[bburl]/external.php<if condition="$forumid">?forumids=$forumid</if> 


i have this problem when i click one of the RSS buttons on the cv_rss_feeds.php

[pnosko31]

I tried to upload this before and just tried again - uploading this file makes my ftp program quit! odd lol

[KW802]

Originally Posted by U.K.Visuals

in the cv_ffl_forum_feed_link i have just this:

PHP Code:

$vboptions[bburl]/external.php<if condition="$forumid">?forumids=$forumid</if> 


i have this problem when i click one of the RSS buttons on the cv_rss_feeds.php

I'll take a look when I get home tonight. In the back of my mind I remember somebody else reporting that problem ages ago but it's been so long I forget what the correction was. If you want to try something else in the interim of waiting for me to get a chance to work on it tonight, try downloading a fresh copy directly from CinVin.

Originally Posted by pnosko31

I tried to upload this before and just tried again - uploading this file makes my ftp program quit! odd lol

Sorry, but providing support for your FTP software is way outside of the scope.

[U.K.Visuals]

i downloaded the package again directly from CinVin and installed it... but still the same problem.

[U.K.Visuals]

did you already found a solution for my problem?

[Spinball]

Couple of things to report.
First, there is a bug, running with 3.7.2, when tuning on the vBSEO option within this mod's options causing a crash when accessing cv_rss_feeds.php:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forum_info() in /home/sites/avforums/public_html/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php on line 195

And secondly I want to display an RSS button right justified to the right of the forum title in forumdisplay. I got it working nearly correctly adding the following plugin:
forumdisplay_complete

if ($vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_permissions_usergroupid']) {
	$forumperms = $foruminfo['permissions'][$vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_permissions_usergroupid']];
} else {
	$forumperms = $vbulletin->userinfo['forumpermissions'][$foruminfo['forumid']];
}

if ( (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']) AND !$vbulletin->options['showprivateforums']) OR (!$foruminfo['displayorder']) OR !($foruminfo['options'] & $vbulletin->bf_misc_forumoptions['active']) OR ($foruminfo['link'] AND !$vbulletin->options['cv_ffl_show_linked'] AND !$forum['nametitle']) OR ($excluded_forums AND (in_array($foruminfo['forumid'],$excluded_forums))) ) {
	$forumrss = "";
} else {
	$forumrss = "<a style='float:right' rel='nofollow' href='http://www.avforums.com/forums/external.php?forumids=" . $foruminfo['forumid'] . "' title='" . $foruminfo['title'] . "'><img src='http://www.avforums.com/forums/images/cinvin_forum_feed_listing/rss.gif' border='0' alt='" . $foruminfo['title'] . "' /></a>";
}

and edited the forumdisplay template, changing

<!-- / controls above thread list -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title] </span></td>

to

<!-- / controls above thread list -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-bottom-width:0px">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat" width="100%">$forumrss $vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title] </span></td>

And you can see it working on www.avforums.com.
However for those forums in the exclude list in the options screen for this mod are still being included. Can anyone help refine this code, please?

[BeakerUK]

I know this is an old hack, but I'm just posting to say it's working perfectly with 3.7.0. I'll be upgrading the forum software to the latest patch soonish, but I assume it'll work fine with other 3.7.x versions.

By observation :: http://www.prestone.co.uk

Link is in the footer.