[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

[b6gm6n]

how do you remove the 'RSS Forum Feeds' ACP menu controls, i've uninstalled...

EDIT : remove the custom xml from includes/xml/

-b6

[tomf]

I don't know if there is allready a better fix for rdf feeds, but here is mine:

I used the fix from garrynewman
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=306

open class_ffrss.php

add at the top

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_core.php');

find

$this->XML_Parse =& new XMLparser(false, $vbulletin->GPC['feed_location']);

comment it out and add this

//##### START MODIFICATION #####
$rss = @file_get_contents($vbulletin->GPC['feed_location']);
$searchresult = strpos($rss,'</rdf:RDF>');
if($searchresult !== false)
{
   $rss = str_replace( "</channel>", "", $rss );
   $rss = str_replace( "</rdf:RDF>", "</channel>\n</rdf:RDF>", $rss );
   $rss = str_replace( "content:encoded", "content", $rss );
}
		
$this->XML_Parse =& new XMLparser($rss);
//##### END MODIFICATION #####

[jesus likes pie]

What did I do wrong?

RSS Feeds Update

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

RSS Feed:
http://www.pcgamer.com/atom.xml

Parent RSS Tag Name: title (had to guess on that one)
Items RSS Tag Name: content
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct: (left empty)

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by jesus likes pie

What did I do wrong?



RSS Feed:
http://www.pcgamer.com/atom.xml

Parent RSS Tag Name: title (had to guess on that one)
Items RSS Tag Name: content
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct: (left empty)

1. Its not an RSS format feed, its an ATOM feed. Two different animals.
2. You've installed this hack instead of ArticleBot.

[NineToez]

Any news lately on fixing double posting perhaps? Is it in the cron job?

[DjTaz]

Im having a problem where the newsfeed posts the first time no problem - it gets 27 posts and puts them up ... and then thats it ?

I need to delete that feed , and put in another one manually for it to work again - and still the same thing when i do that - even update feed doesnt work

any suggestions ?

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by DjTaz

Im having a problem where the newsfeed posts the first time no problem - it gets 27 posts and puts them up ... and then thats it ?

I need to delete that feed , and put in another one manually for it to work again - and still the same thing when i do that - even update feed doesnt work

any suggestions ?

ArticleBot for 3.5

[DjTaz]

So your suggesting uninstall this and install ArticleBot 3.5 instead ?

I was hoping for an easier answer to get this one working to be honest

[NineToez]

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758

Got the same error as jesus likes pie and I don't wanna hear about ArticleBot. How do I fix this? I have four feeds my vB scans twice a day for; two are fine and the other two give me this error when I run it manually.

[NineToez]

^^ Anyone have any insight on this?