Add-On Releases - News Reader with RSS Feeds - For Dummies

Please click Mark as Installed if you use this modification >>>>

Seriously, I got tired of trying to figure out how to get the news I wanted on my site that provided the whole story and not just a description or a feed that was nothing more than a ?disguised ad? for another site, so I located a Google Map Reader, acquired permission to use the program and wrote a ?modification for vb.?

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Queries to run: 0
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Template Edits: 1

Testing:
I have tested this on 3.5.x and 3.6.x and it works fine on both. 3.5.x users follow this link:

VbGoogleNews 3.5.X version 1.0.2


What this program does:
This is a Google Map with interactive pins on each continent. Access is gained via the navbar.

Usage:
Select the location on the map that you?d like by dragging mouse, click on pin until you locate the exact country, region, local area you desire and the news will appear. Click on article and a new window will display story; members never leave your site.


Changelog
v1.0.1 working version
v1.0.2 two minor modifications to adjust width



Since the Reader and RSS Feeds is remotely hosted and they do the upgrades, I can?t think of any improvements necessary, but feel free to make suggestions and/or provide file(s), translate to another language, whatever!


Live Demo:
http://www.namelessboard.com/forum/googlenews.php

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I think they've changed something on their site and this mod has now stopped working?

It was working fine, but now the news panel on the right side of the screen no longer appears?

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Badger

Anyone else started getting "fatal errors" as the mod tries to read in the text stories? The arrow spins for a long time, then it goes to an error message?

Was working fine, but lately getting more of these....

Thanks ...

Regards,
Badger

[Alibass]

@badger

Yes I am having same thing on my site. I am fixing to disable hack until problem solved. Hard to say if it's the news feed having issues or they actually changed something.

[LordDB]

How would I resolve this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: iconv() in /home/content/a/s/p/aspaan/html/headlinemap.com/lastRSS2.php on line 81

[lefthome]

I've been away for several months and just noticed it isn't working anymore. I will get this fixed asap!

[lefthome]

The link has been fixed and everything should be working fine now.


Sorry!

[LadyHoney]

luv it luv it luv it.. ty

[ArnyVee]

I'd like to have a 'news feed' with Disney-related information on my site. Would this hack be a solution to what I'm looking for?

If so, then could the information carry over to CMPS (my vBadvanced homepage)?

I'm less than two months into modifying my site, so I'm still relatively new. Be gentle.

[SirFlash]

ArnyVee - This hack can't be modified to filter out only Disney news, GoogleNews only provides regular News as gathered by Google, this hack lets you click on a location in the world and get local news from that part of the world only. If you want to provide Disney-related information to your website, i recommend you create a new Disney forum in your vbulletin and add a new RSS Feed to load info into that forum. You can get Disney RSS feeds from http://www.wdwinfo.com/rss/ and http://www.wdwmagic.com/rss.htm and http://www.magicalmountain.net/WDWNe...sp?NewsID=1898 (Use Google to find more Disney RSS Feeds).

[ArnyVee]

Thanks SirFlash!

So, then I could make a module in my vBadvanced homepage (CMPS) and 'feed' the info to it, I would assume.

How do I load info into a particular forum using the RSS feeds? And, can I have more than one RSS feed in a forum?

[ArnyVee]

Forget it....got it.