Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ Older version can be found here ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Automatically adds an RSS Feeds link to your navbar template in the Quick Links drop-down menu.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.


Revisions
2.4.3
- Fixed issue if "Show Private Forums" is turned on in your ACP then private forums would have also been listed. As of 2.4.3 private forums will not be listed regardless of the ACP option.

2.4.2
- Fixed the "Excluded Forums" option for when multiple forums are selected.

2.4.1
- Fixed an uncached template (cv_ffl_rss_link_in_quicklinks).

2.4.0
- A new feature has been added to automatically add an "RSS Feeds" link to your navbar template in the Quick Links drop-down menu.
- All prior reported issue fixes are included.
- Version jump to 2.4.0

2.3.0
- A new feature has been added to automatically add an RSS button to your footer template as can be seen here at CinVin. The option is turned on by default and can be turned on or off in the ACP.
- Session ID variables have been removed from the cv_ffl_forum_link template as some older styles that were converted to the vB 3.6.x were having some issues.
- The method of including the vBadvanced CMPS file for CMPS 2.x & older has been changed. If you are using CMPS but not integrating the CinVin Forum Feed Listing with it then you may have seen an error at the top of the page.
- For those interested in removing the "CinVin" branding from the footer, the Branding Free License cost has been reduced.

2.2.1
- Private release

2.2.0
- Added new feature to show forums based upon a usergroup ID. The default value is now usergroup ID 1.
- Fixed 'Excluded Forums' option; was not working in all circumstances.
- Fixed display issue introduced in 2.1.1 for vBSEO users.
- Code cleanup.
2.1.1
- Fix for vBSEO users that were having an issue with no forums being listed.

1.x.x - 2.1.0
- Several new features, check your ACP.

1.0.2
- Strip HTML from forum descriptions
- Fixed forum link to go to forum display instead of external.php
- Added additional template (cf_ffl_forum_link) for forum links versus feed links
- Removed logic that would not show a forum if the forum was not listed on the forum jump menu

1.0.1
- Added WOL plugins

[nikosb]

:up:

thanks

[irantk]

thanks

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[jrap]

Thanks!

[mykkal]

It seems like the feeds aren't supported everywhere.

When I try to view them in google chrome I see HTML code in text format.

When I try to import the feeds into phplist for the auto-generated newsletter they also fail.

I could really use some help fixing this. Please...

the feed link i'm using is: http://www.mymodeltalk.com/jobs/exte...hp?forumids=17

It shows fine in firefox for me but folks with older versions of firefox say it doesn't work for them. There must be something wrong. If anyone could help that would be great.

[Leo Brazil]

mykkal,

As far as I know Google Chrome doesn't support directly feeds at any kind. I'm was checking this point yesterday because GC was getting more popular everyday between my members because it's so much faster than IE. Even after upgrading GC to 2.0 version still doens't support feeds. If you check GC help for feeds there's nothing there about.
Try to Google "RSS Feed on Google Chrome", you'll find some interesting pages on web about it. There are even some good mods available for free to make GC work with RSS but none of them I tried worked so good as Fire Fox for example.

[mykkal]

It does support it. Just not all the extra stuff included in the Vbulletin feeds.

Again... Not every newsreader support my VB feeds and people with macs and firefox can't view them while firefox on PCs can.

Can I get some help please? Everywhere I go people want to have a discussion which is fine. But I really need support.

This isn't about google chrome either. I need the feed to actually work. It's not working with phplist anylonger and I can see where the feed is trying to include javascript popups and HTML.

Why isn't it just text?

[mykkal]

Can i get some help? Is this still supported?

[NeverBored]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Can i get some help? Is this still supported?

The stuff you're talking about has nothing to do with this mod. Your feed looks normal to me.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by NeverBored

The stuff you're talking about has nothing to do with this mod. Your feed looks normal to me.

again its not about looks. Its about the RSS having too much extra garbage in it and not being supported by a lot of news readers.

I really want help from someone that will troubleshoot after reading my entire statement.
I've been going in circles for ages.

Try a feed validator on it and you will see. Problems...Problems...Problems...

[KW802]

Mykkal, as NeverBored said, your problem description does not seem to have anything to do at all with this mod. If you have a problem with actual output of your external.php file that comes with vBulletin, you'll need to ask over at vB.com for support.