[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

[Allan]

Work perfectly, thanks Zero Tolerance

"Click Install"

[eoc_Jason]

That's not how RSS works. The purpose is just to give the short bit of info, with the link to the full article.

If you wanted to copy the whole article, then you would have to write some sort of custom screen-scraping script for each site...

Originally Posted by hexonxonx

Does anyone know how to get this to post the whole article on 3.5 Gold? I have this working perfectly, I just want it to post the whole article instead of the description with a link.

Thanks

[c0d3x]

bah... it does not works "correctly"

... /me clicks uninstall

[b6gm6n]

anyone ever had a feed update from cron yet?

[garrynewman]

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

[question?]

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/digitalmusic" the system encountered the following error:
The system could not find the "parent" tag you specified ()

Please check settings related to this issue.

I've done it the first, time but then deleted it. Then when i added a new one, i got that error when i try and update it.

[bgray]

Originally Posted by garrynewman

Anyone found a solution for repeats yet?

I'm having the same problem. Anyone know a way to get around the duplicate posts? Zero, you have an idea?

[klaush]

Well, that is, what i was lookong for!

Thanks for this great job!

[VaaKo]

I'm not being able to add a new RSS Feed, I press the submit button but it keeps on loading and never adds anything!

[VaaKo]

I am getting this error, when I try to input the given details for the BBC News:

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

any suggestions?