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About Developer · **Released**: 09-24-2001

Synopsis

This hack allows webmaster to provide syndicated VB content to other webmasters such as Latest topics, Latest Polls or calendar entries to other webmasters for inclusion on their websites. The webmasters using the feeds do NOT need PHP, PERL, MYSQL, ASP just a javascript enabled browser.

Requirements

* Crontab
* The ability to run PHP via the command line

Example

http://cpfc.org/news/newsfeed.html

Please note the documentation is sketchy and if your aren't savvy with hacking code yourself then maybe you should wait until the documentation is up to speed.

Steve Machol · #42 10-09-2001, 05:38 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by smachol
Thanks but I'm still having the same problem. The latest_topics.js file is messed up. After running this, the first line always begins with:

ument.write

...instead of:

document.write

I'm going to check the code again.

[Edit: I checked but can't find any reason for this to happen. Again it's the first line only. All subsequent lines print out fine.]

Steve Machol · #43 10-09-2001, 05:46 PM

I temporarily 'fixed' the problem by putting a few spaces in front of 'document.write'

PHP Code:


			
  fputs($fp, "   document.write(.........

The first line prints out correctly now, while subsequent lines have several spaces in from of them. Nonetheless the resulting .js file seems to display correctly.

I'd still be intersted in knowing why this happened.

Scott MacVicar · #44 10-09-2001, 07:04 PM

This is an odd error =/

i got it to work fine on Mandrake and Win2k systems without any problems such as this. I was using PHP4.0.6 in both cases.

Steve Machol · #45 10-09-2001, 08:23 PM

Yeah I'm running PHP 4.06 too. Interestingly enough, it is formatted correctly when run from cron. It's only when I run the exact same command from the shell that it chops off the first three characters of the first line.

Very strange!

#46 10-11-2001, 01:23 AM

*bump* help please... I do not get why this will not work! ;(

Thanks,

Steve Machol · #47 10-11-2001, 01:58 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by YourHostSucks
*bump* help please... I do not get why this will not work! ;(

Thanks,

#48 10-11-2001, 02:20 AM

So i have to mail my host and have them set up every cron job? , Why do they give me the option in the control panel to add them if
I can not? *just wondering*.. would seem like I should be able to.

Sorry, I am just very confused.....

Steve Machol · #49 10-11-2001, 02:44 AM

I honestly don't know why you can't run a cron job. Perhaps this is a problem with your host. All I was pointing out is why you got the error when you ran the command:

root /home/********/*******l/******/newsfeed.php

#50 10-11-2001, 02:54 AM

Oooo got ya.. can not run the cron job (root) unless you have root access...

Thanks*

The cron job is running just fine.. but I get those parse errors on line 72....

Steve Machol · #51 10-11-2001, 03:10 AM

I wish I could help you. I'm running this with the 'lynx -dump' cron job and it's working great. Here's what I have:

Code:

*/10 * * * * lynx -dump http://*************/newsfeed.php > latest_topics.js

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.05613 seconds Memory Usage 2,299KB Queries Executed 25 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (1)bbcode_code (1)bbcode_php (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)modsystem_post (1)navbar (6)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (3)pagenav_pagelink (11)post_thanks_box (11)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (11)post_thanks_postbit_info (10)postbit (8)postbit_onlinestatus (11)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
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