NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack

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 &quot; 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

[Slapyo]

If you were to go through and pull out advertisements you would have to edit the code in which case it would be for that specific feed only and would work for only that feed.

bitg, i'm not exactly sure. what rss feeds are you using. i would suggest that you goto the article bot which provides many more options but does the same thing.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67078

[mobilephonegame]

Hi All,
ive read through this thread, but am no nearer finding a solution

my php is 4.3+ ive installed without any errors showing

ive added a bot, and scheduled for every 59 mins, allocated forum id & News user id

all goes fine until i manually select "run now" in sshedule tasks

all im shown is:

PHP Code:

Warning: main(class.RSS.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public_html/gamesarcade/includes/RSS/rss_update.php on line 17 


and

PHP Code:

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'class.RSS.php' (include_path='') in /home/public_html/gamesarcade/includes/RSS/rss_update.php on line 17 


no other errors appear in the admin area, ive even done the fix for users using a lower spec of php and still doesnt work...

can anyone throw some light>?

the RSS im wanting to use, and have set up is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...rld/rss091.xml

any assist with this to get it working would be gr8 :-)

[Beermonster]

Works perfect

[high]* Beermonster clicks install[/high]

[mobilephonegame]

Originally Posted by Beermonster

Works perfect

[high]* Beermonster clicks install[/high]

<< couldnt get it to work, so used another, and that worked first time :tired: :-)

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by bitg

I installed this the other day and it pulled in 7 messages from the feed which is very cool. However, I have got nothing since then. I though I messed up the cron. I ran the script manually and it comes back with the message "RSS News Feed".

Is that all it is supposed to say?

I added 3 more feeds going to the same forum and I get no posts from any of them.

What am I doing wrong?

BTW, I have attached a picture of my cron screen. Did I do it right?

First of all you have set your cron to check every 0 minutes try setting it to 59

Also I'm the same as you some feeds work and some don't, I'm just getting no posts from them, anyone else have a problem with it?

[martinh4]

Installed and it's working great.

[venomx]

Ok I run VB3.0.3 and tried Article Bot and it works fine except on the forum home it doesnt updat the Last Post field. Does this hack have the same problem?

[Slapyo]

it might be how article bot inserts the post. article bot may insert the post manually...but this bot will use vB's function to make a new post. however i would still go with article bot because it offers many more features than this one. make the suggestion to the article bot dev.

[Blam Forumz]

My scheduled task is called rss.php it has everything that it should have,the filename is ./rss.php

and when i run it, all i get is a message saying:

rss.php

and no post in the forum i setup the bots to post in... help, i use 3.0.2 and i dotn know how to check my php version

[DanGarion]

If I try to run the scheduled task I all I get is the name of my Scheduled task and nothing that says "Done".

If I try to bring up the rss.php file it's just a blank page.

I don't see any errors generated anywhere.

http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/raw.php is the feed.