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

[cyberoptik]

Can anyone modify this mod to work with 3.6.x please?

[ldsfiles]

I'm using 3.5.6.

Running into a problem in includes/function_newpost.php.

The instructions say:

FIND:
// $errors will become any error messages that come from the checks before preview kicks in
global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbphrase, $bbuserinfo, $forumperms, $usergroupcache, $_REQUEST;

REPLACE WITH:

// $errors will become any error messages that come from the checks before preview kicks in
if ($rss_userid == '0')
{
global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbphrase, $bbuserinfo, $forumperms, $usergroupcache, $_REQUEST;
}
else
{
global $DB_site, $vboptions, $vbphrase, $bbuserinfo, $forumperms, $usergroupcache, $_REQUEST;
$bbuserinfo = fetch_userinfo($rss_userid);
}

But my function_newpost.php has a different structure. If I implement this as is, it gives me "Fatal error: Registry object is not an object in /includes/class_dm.php on line 177" when I try to manually create a post.

Can you shed any light on what the proper structure of the function_newpost.php should be for version 3.5.6?

thanks

[Morfus]

I have this installed and working with the Yahoo RSS feeds.

What I want to know is, can I record a Podcast, like a show, and use this to post it on the forums? If so, do I just post the link to the folder on my hosting so the task checks there for new files?

Thanks

[I found a solution to get what I need done]

Further more, I am running 3.0.x and need to allow the account/group to post in HTML. I found the "Allow HTML for user group" but it runs on 3.5.x. I know the simple solution is to update, but I would like to know how to get it installed on my current version. Anyone have a way around this to allow only the account for the RSS Feed to post in HTML so the posts look correct?

[snipeyhead]

Is there any easy way to prevent the RSS feed posts from showing up in the "New Posts" page? Our members are complaining that they have to sort through the newsfeed posts to find posts from real people. It would be great if it could be configured to not show up on that page.

[Morfus]

Originally Posted by snipeyhead

Is there any easy way to prevent the RSS feed posts from showing up in the "New Posts" page? Our members are complaining that they have to sort through the newsfeed posts to find posts from real people. It would be great if it could be configured to not show up on that page.

i solved this problem by making the RSS feeds post in its own forum for news. just exclude that forum from the new posts module so they do not show up.

hope that helps.

[Magma]

is there an update what will work on 3.6.4

[Triality]

i would also like an update for 3.6.4

[Slapyo]

There is no need for an upgrade, the current vBulletin system includes this.

[SKULL1985]

Maybe this is a dumb qestion but without installing it and it not doing what i need it to do , i have a simple qestion to any one using this , is there a setion in the admincp to just add it to sports feeds only ?

Also dos this work on the new relase 3.6.6

[Slapyo]

This won't work on 3.6.6 and you can use the system in vB to pull whatever feeds you want, sports only or anything else you want.