[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

[Cebby]

Originally Posted by 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?

Not sure of the legality of it, be sure you are giving credit where credit is due for the content.

Are you having this problem in CMPS or in a regular vB forum? Post up your RSS Feed post format.

[soletrader]

Originally Posted by Cebby

Not sure of the legality of it, be sure you are giving credit where credit is due for the content.

Are you having this problem in CMPS or in a regular vB forum? Post up your RSS Feed post format.

Feed Name : CNBC News

Feed Location/URL : http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...latestrss.aspx

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]

I am trying to post this in my vb forum. Thanks Cebby

[bandoftheweek]

I'm trying to get an rss feed from here http://www.absolutepunk.net/external...s&forumids=165

It says Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given. Please help, thanks.

[Cebby]

Originally Posted by soletrader

Feed Name : CNBC News

Feed Location/URL : http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...latestrss.aspx

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]

I am trying to post this in my vb forum. Thanks Cebby

In looking at the actual feed, you can see that only one line is being "fed". As far as the Array problem, there's something wrong with the way the HTML is constructed (guessing)

Here's mine - and it works - maybe try this format?

{XML[description]}

[url={XML[link]}]Read more...[/url]

The prob is the [guid] - I think.

[TundraSoul]

Hi,

Is there a vB 3.60 ready version of this product somewhere?

[basskiller]

Is there any way to keep the posts made by this out of the "new posts" request?

[fischermx]

I'm also want to use this with 3.6
Will it work ?

[peterska2]

3.6 has RSS feeds as a default feature. This modification uses the same tables as 3.6 and so will cause errors on upgrading to 3.6 unless you uninstall it first, and will not work due to the same tables being used.

[kr580]

My site, www.bleepingidiots.com, has CuteNews (news managment... RSS) on the front page. I also set it up so this vBulletin hack automatically posts the news feeds in the appropiate forum sections.

For some reason when I try to update the feed using this vB hack it gives me this message:

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://www.bleepingidiots.com/cutenews/rss.php?category=8&number=999" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

It was working beautifully for a week or two and then one day it didn't feel like working. Nothing on either side (CuteNews or vB) has changed so I'm baffled as to what caused this. I'm not sure where the blame lies so I'm posting this here as well as the CuteNews forums.

Any ideas? Thanks - Kevin

[Terminatoronly]

hi,
thanks for this hack but when i try to update feed it display this error:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 758 


Can u Please Fix this error for me.

Regards,
Terminatoronly