Version: 1.00, by Jafo232
Developer Last Online: Oct 2022
Version: 3.5.3
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Released: 01-31-2006
Last Update: Never
Installs: 34
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No support by the author.
I will no longer be supporting this hack as 3.6.x supports feeds, making this hack obsolete.
This hack will automatically post to a forum of your choice, as a user of your choice, any Google alert received. In fact, it should work for any alert service.
If you do not know what Google Alerts are, see this page:
Quote:
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Requirements:
A POP email box to receive Google Alerts.
Install is simple. Upload the PHP file, install the product, define the settings in adminCP, test, and set up a scheduled task in the adminCP then:
You can limit who can post alerts by restricting domains allowed to email the POP box. I advise you use a secret, previously unused POP box/email address. Any mail in the POP box that is not in the domain list is deleted, otherwise it is posted.
Errors have nothing to do with Google. And it is already what you wanted. Sending eMail to an eddy which posts into the threads. No matter whether the mail comes from your Laptop or from Google Alert.
Wow, well then allow me to submit that this hack's TITLE sells it's usefulness a bit short. It's basically an email gateway to vBulletin thread creation, then. The email doesn't have to be from Google or an alert at all.
(Jafo232, you may want to reconsider the title of your excellent hack, as some folks will overlook this as yet another RSS scraper/poster, when it can be so much more.)
I'd very much enjoy this as a way to create threads on the go when I don't have speedy web access. Hopefully I'll get the error (posted above) sorted out so I can see it in action.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imap_open() in /home/.odell/mydir/myforumname.com/forums/vbox.php on line 24
I tried changing /pop3/tls/novalidate-cert to /pop3 in the vbox.php file... same error. Changed it back again, same error.
I know my popserver, username, port and password are correct, since I am able to log into it using the exact same information at mail2web.com's "Advanced" login page. But vbox.php doesn't succeed for some reason.
Any help would be appreciated.
Your version of PHP was not compiled with imap support, this hack will not work for you. If it was compiled with imap support, then the function imap_open would be defined.
Your version of PHP was not compiled with imap support, this hack will not work for you. If it was compiled with imap support, then the function imap_open would be defined.
Bummer. I thought this hack was working via POP, not IMAP.
Would it work using a pure IMAP account? As I can easily turn POPs into IMAPs.
Or do I have to change anything in PHP.ini?
Sorry if that are dumb questions...
Andreas
If you get the "undefined function" error, then no. It isn't about what type of box it is, it is the fact that your version of PHP was not compiled with the --with-imap option.
Wow, well then allow me to submit that this hack's TITLE sells it's usefulness a bit short. It's basically an email gateway to vBulletin thread creation, then. The email doesn't have to be from Google or an alert at all.
(Jafo232, you may want to reconsider the title of your excellent hack, as some folks will overlook this as yet another RSS scraper/poster, when it can be so much more.)
I'd very much enjoy this as a way to create threads on the go when I don't have speedy web access. Hopefully I'll get the error (posted above) sorted out so I can see it in action.
Yes, this is the true email posts to forum tool!
I made one small change so that it would accept any email message...
In VBOX.PHP, change line 33 from
if (!in_array($from[0]->host, $domains)) {
to
if (in_array($from[0]->host, $domains)) {
This way only domains listed will be ignored (versus permitted).