[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

[ManagerJosh]

Originally Posted by nailerpa

Ugh...I'm just not getting it...still not working. Does this look right?

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily&exclude=97,98" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>

Okay for the double post, here's something we gotta fix ourselves. ZT isn't doing it, so we're on our own

From what I can tell, and piecing ZT's data, he's basing the last stuff on RSS by title of the RSS feed. I think we need to move this to date based. This might be a key problem as it isn't programmed to handle based on title. Plus titles change, and can throw the thing off. But dates shouldn't throw it off if its consistent enough.

See: $tableprefix_rssfeed, column: feed_lastadded

[FASherman]

Has anyone figured out how to limit this to the first X items in a feed?

[testing2]

This works great!

Anyway, is there a way to have all feeds listed in a single thread, as opposed to having a single thread for each title?

e.g.) Suppose I create a thread id 100, and the script adds just the title and link from the RSS feed to this thread. After a month (or day, or week), I (or the script) can start a new thread for that month, and adds the new data into that single thread..

I think it can be done with a little bit of tweaking to this script.. Each feed seems to have too little information to warrant a new thread, but I like the idea of having just the title of the news in a thread.

Anyone who can help me on how to do this?

[garrynewman]

Bah, my fix stopped working. Does the posthash table get cleared periodically?

[GT1]

Well I have read through all 28 pages of posts and I am guessing I am missing something because this still does not work....

I set it up completely, entered in my RSS and then when I go to click up date it says I did not specify a select or something like that. Can someone please help me out with this. Thank you.

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by GT1

Well I have read through all 28 pages of posts and I am guessing I am missing something because this still does not work....

Join the club mate, after weeks of no responce for updates do not work via cron, and dupes i gotta remove the hack, it's depressing.

*Uninstalled

-b6

[Code Monkey]

I couldn't get this to work, so I made articlebot work with vb 3.50.

Now I am happy again.

[GT1]

Originally Posted by JumpD

I couldn't get this to work, so I made articlebot work with vb 3.50.

Now I am happy again.

Well why not post and share with the rest of us?

[antboy]

Have installed this (eg upload file use product manager to run xml file) but nothing shows - in fact did it twice :disappointed:

running 3.5 with photopost & cmps

can anyone help me debug what i have done wrong pls

A

[Code Monkey]

Originally Posted by GT1

Well why not post and share with the rest of us?

I did in the articlebot thread in 3.0 forums. I got it to run my existing feeds but the admin script still needs to be ported to enter new ones.