[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

[peterska2]

yes it does. I have it running on a 3.5.4 forum

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Originally Posted by vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT

This is a really excellent hack. Saves me going to all the hassle of upgrading to 3.6!

I just have one question: Would the headlines still get posted in a read only forum?

Anyone?

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Anyone?????!??!??!?

[soletrader]

What does this mean?

Add the following scheduled task:
Title: RSS Feeds Update
Day of the Week: *
Day of the Month: *
Hour: *
Minute: 1 - - -
Log Entries: Up to you
Filename: ./includes/cron/cron_ffrss.php

Where do I go to fix this?

[bandoftheweek]

I have a question (I did skip thru the 37 pages so sorry if it was already answered). What if I have vbadvanced? How can I make the news be posted on the homepage?

[soletrader]

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I am trying to get a RSS news feed in my forum thread. This is the url:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...S/cnbcrss.aspx


I have no clue how to fill the:

Parent RSS Tag Name
Items RSS Tag Name
Thread Title RSS Tag Name
Thread Post RSS Construct

Can anyone help? Thank you

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

The correct link to the feed is: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...S/cnbcrss.aspx

Click on that, and you will be displayed source code by your browser:

And from that, I can gather:

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[guid]}]Read More...[/url]

That should work. If you look at how I have obtained that info from the source, you should get how to do it in future.

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Originally Posted by soletrader

What does this mean?


Add the following scheduled task:
Title: RSS Feeds Update
Day of the Week: *
Day of the Month: *
Hour: *
Minute: 1 - - -
Log Entries: Up to you
Filename: ./includes/cron/cron_ffrss.php


Where do I go to fix this?

Admin CP > Scheduled Tasks > Add New Scheduled Task

[soletrader]

How do you allows the RSS feed to post more than one line? As of now I did manage to get the feed but I am only receiving one line and then a "read more..." Also once I click on "read more" I get a http://array/ What did I do wrong?


Also is this legal?

[Cebby]

Originally Posted by bandoftheweek

I have a question (I did skip thru the 37 pages so sorry if it was already answered). What if I have vbadvanced? How can I make the news be posted on the homepage?

Have the RSS Feed results targeted to one forum, then have your news or custom pages look to that forum for the information.

I'm doing that here:

www.furnitureresource.info

and

www.culinary-compliments.com