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NEW Modified RSS News Feed Hack
Version: 1.00, by Slapyo Slapyo is offline
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Version: 3.0.0 Rating:
Released: 04-12-2004 Last Update: 06-22-2004 Installs: 146
 
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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

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  #412  
Old 09-16-2004, 01:38 AM
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dan, that is a rdf feed not a rss feed. try article bot, it is located in the integration forum. it does rdf i think.
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Old 09-16-2004, 02:57 PM
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Is there any way, to make it accept 287 character, RSS addresses in the source box. Currently it is limiting me to 148. Don't ask about the long feed, it is one of those super configurable ones.

How would I do this?
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Old 09-17-2004, 05:04 AM
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i'm not sure. i only made changes to the script and still don't know all the ins and outs about it. i do know that article bot is alot more advanced in what it does as compared to this bot.
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Old 09-17-2004, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by blueuniverse
Is there any way, to make it accept 287 character, RSS addresses in the source box. Currently it is limiting me to 148. Don't ask about the long feed, it is one of those super configurable ones.

How would I do this?
Ignore this now, I sorted it by editing the field in phpMyAdmin
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Old 09-18-2004, 05:12 AM
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oh ok cool ... glad you got it working the way you want.
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Old 09-18-2004, 10:21 AM
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Iv'e installed but do not get anything happening....

If I run the scheduled task manually its just says rss.php and nohing else.

running php 4.3.4 and setup the forum ID and user all OK trying to use RSS Feed URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...rld/rss091.xml

Any ideas? Would love to get this running....
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Old 09-18-2004, 11:49 AM
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DOn't worry fixed it - for anyone else just check you are putting the user ID NUMBER and not the Users name when you add a new bot
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Old 09-19-2004, 10:16 AM
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I had the same issue with BBC where it grabs the first set of headlines when you first run it but will bot update, no idea why though.
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Old 09-24-2004, 07:17 PM
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MoreOver Feeds aren't working for me... Any idea why?

TheRegister feed wroked then I moved to a new sub-forum and they didn't update in here when I ran the cron..?
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Old 09-27-2004, 01:12 AM
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One minor suggestion....

adv_portal_news_archivebits ends up spitting out a line like this:

Code:
<b><a href="http://dev.defensivetactics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51" title="<br /><br />View the Entire Article<br />">Development:  AL QAEDA SEEN PLANNING FOR 'SPECTACULAR ATTACK'</a></b>
I'm concerned about the breaks in the title parameter. That's causing some validation problems.

In rss_update.php, I found this:
PHP Code:
$rss_description .= "{br}{br}[url=" $rss_allItems[$j][LINK] . "]View the Entire Article[/url]{br}"
If I pull out the three breaks, is that going to cause problems elsewhere?
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