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

[egthareal]

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL: ALTER TABLE rss_settings DROP forumid, DROP userid, DROP source
mysql error: Can't DROP 'forumid'. Check that column/key exists

mysql error number: 1091

Date: Tuesday 08th of March 2005 03:58:37 AM
Script: http://www.tips4poker.com/forums/rss_upgrade.php
Referer:
Username: egthareal
IP Address: xxx


can someone please assist me in this upgrade? thanks

[inverted]

can i see anyone's live sites using this hack? just wanna get a better feel for how things get displayed and whatnot. thanks.

- inverted

[RackChat]

I installed it on my boards(www.rackchat.com) about an hour ago. I tried to limit the number of articles to be posted by adding variables in the URL but when I run the task it doesn't add anything to the forum, yet I don't get any errors. When I remove those variables everything works. I haven't read through all 33 pages so it might have been suggested before. Anyway adding another option to limit the quantity of threads it starts or a way to limit the articles it fetches would be a great feature.

Great hack though, well done!

[subnet_rx]

Originally Posted by ntventures

I installed the hack and get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: log_cron_action() in /home/atech/www.discusssite.com/docs/rss.php on line 7

I'm running 3.0.3. It installed okay and added new threads when it installed, but hasn't added any more since. How do I fix it?

Thanks

I'm getting this same error on 1.26, might be something to look into.

[venomx]

I tested the default one that comes with VB. The validater gave one error. I was going to install this one but from what I read it also has problems?

[wacodep]

Okay, why does THIS feed work fine using the v1.26 hack:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

But this one does NOT?
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/r...TF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

[cashpath]

Originally Posted by WizardX

Is this all compatible with new 5.0.1 release? Cause I get the following error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/init.php on line 517

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/sessions.php on line 270




Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /usr/sites/isptalk.nl/web/includes/init.php
Line: 517





http://www.isptalk.nl/rss_install.php

Thanks in advance.

Does anyone know how to fix this to work with php 5?

[Blootix]

No screenshots? Anybody has a live demo?

[cashpath]

To answer my own stupid question if you have PHP 5 add this to both RSS files...

$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

Of course I did that and the feeds still don't produce anything.. but at least I don't get an error

[cashpath]

Well unfortunately I couldn't get this to work, so... guess I won't use it..