[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

[Rik Brown]

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

I just installed the plugin today and get the same error message. I'm new to RSS so I'm just attempting to duplicate the BBC News sample above.

Any ideas? Thanks. -- Rik

Well, I found the reason was that I hadn't entered the following code:

Published: {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
}]Read More...

[H@K@N]

Hi @ll,

i'm having trouble with the charset.

On my Forums i am using ISO-8859-9. The Feeds i am getting have for ex. UTF-8.

When i check the posted Feed, i am getting following:

yerel a?�daki makinelerin kaynaklarına ula?�abiliyor, onlara mesaj atabiliyor ve daha nice i?�ler yapabiliyorduk. Sonra bunun Internette de i?�e yarama ihtimali var mı diye merak ettim. ?�ünkü Kablo Internet ba?�lantısında da Kablo Modem bir a?� ba?�da?�tırıcısı olarak görünüyordu. Ve subnet maskesi de dial-uplardaki gibi 255.255.255.255 de?�il, 255.255.192.0?��dı. Bu sayede di?�er Windows makinelerle en azından aynı subnettekilerle ba?�lantının gerçekle?�mesi gerekir diye dü?�ündüm. ?�ünkü router geçmeyecekti. Sonra da komut satırından ba?�ladım net view \\IP_adresi girmeye.

Does somebody know, how i can handle this ?

th@nks

[lairnoc]

ok my board members did not like the rss feed. how can i uninstall this?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by lairnoc

ok my board members did not like the rss feed. how can i uninstall this?

I'm still waiting on that answer too.

[H@K@N]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

I'm still waiting on that answer too.

1 - Delete first Feeds in ACP
2 - Goto Manage Products, choose uninstall from the dropdown Box
3 - Delete Posts from RSS-Bot ( Or delete Feed-Forum, if you have created one only for the Feeds )
4 - Update Forum,Thread Statistics

think thats it.

greets

[Doozilla]

No one has solved the duplicates issue yet? Interesting. This hack has SOOO much potential!

[NineToez]

In my experience, the dupes are an issue of a feed itself, and not necessarily of this mod. I current run 4 RSS feeds with this mod and only one duplicates posts. The duplicates I just simply automatically prune away anyway so it's not really that big of a deal.

[Doozilla]

Originally Posted by NineToez

In my experience, the dupes are an issue of a feed itself, and not necessarily of this mod. I current run 4 RSS feeds with this mod and only one duplicates posts. The duplicates I just simply automatically prune away anyway so it's not really that big of a deal.

You are absolutely correct, and please pardon if I am stating the obvious here.

The hack reads the feed as often as you have it setup to, so if duplicate data is in the feed the hack is going to read it and import it. I wish it would differentiate between duplicates by checking for identical titles or something, that would be cool. I am going to see what's under the hood today and see if I can fix it.

[DjTaz]

Im not getting duplicates - it gets 27 threads first time i do it - and then none after that unless i fully delete the rss feed and re-do another one ...anyone know the problem ?

[Doozilla]

Originally Posted by DjTaz

Im not getting duplicates - it gets 27 threads first time i do it - and then none after that unless i fully delete the rss feed and re-do another one ...anyone know the problem ?

Taz, it sounds ilke maybe you don't have the CRON setup?