RSS News Feed Hack

My friend made this hack, he owns http://www.liquidpro.net. Check him out.
You may contact him at liquidpro@neo.rr.com. Or you can IM him on AIM at LiquidPro10.

An example is shown at http://www.xtreme-forumz.net. Go to the Techno forum under the General category. Then the CNET News sub-forum.

RSS News Feed Hack for vB 3.0.0. 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!

Instructons:
Note: DON'T FORGET TO MAKE A BACKUP OF EACH FILE BEFORE YOU MODIFY IT!

Copy the files to your web server... keep the same directory structure as in the zip file.
Run the rss_install.php file to setup the RSS script.
If you're upgrading run the rss_upgrade.php file to setup the RSS script. Don't forget to remove all previous modifications (you can find them by searching for "LiquidPro")

#### open the /index.php script ####
Find this:

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/functions_forumlist.php'); 


Add below it:

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php'); 


#### open the /forumdisplay.php script ####
Find this:

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/functions_forumdisplay.php'); 


Add below it:

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/RSS/rss_update.php'); 


#### open the /admincp/index.php script ####

Find this:

PHP Code:

construct_nav_group("$vbphrase[styles] &amp; $vbphrase[templates]", '<hr />'); 


Add below it:

PHP Code:

// Manage Hacks
// by: Andrew Wickham
// LiquidPro Inc.
//
construct_nav_option('RSS News Feed', 'rss_admin.php', '<br />');
construct_nav_group('Hacks');
//
// End Manage Hacks 


You're done, thanks for installing the hack.

Hack by: Andrew Wickham (http://www.liquidpro.net)
Hack for: Xtreme-Forumz (http://www.xtreme-forumz.net)

[wsjb78]

RC4 is already out? Hmmm......
It works for me on RC3... however not the auto-update yet...

[mcyates]

yeah, well it does say Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4 at the bottom of my forum.

[Natch]

Originally Posted by mcyates

yeah, well it does say Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4 at the bottom of my forum.

Damn - this is great - thanks to all those who have helped to get this thing so slick

Once I have a new bot installed and configured to run this thing, it's gonna make news gathering so damn simple w00taH!

It was the alistapart.com RSS feed that brought this to the fore for me - so thanks to all involved the alterations sugegsted, and the cron job tips have made this just awesome

[high]* Natch does the dance of the jubilant monkey[/high]

[Giveit2u43]

quick fix for threadcounts.. find:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum SET lastpost = '$current_dateline', lastposter = '$rss_username', lastthread = '$rss_title', lastthreadid = '$rss_threadid' WHERE forumid = '$rss_forumid'");

and replace with:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum SET threadcount = threadcount + 1,lastpost = '$current_dateline', lastposter = '$rss_username', lastthread = '$rss_title', lastthreadid = '$rss_threadid' WHERE forumid = '$rss_forumid'");

[killervette]

Doesnt work for me.

i use this

http://www.xmlmania.com/development/...earch=corvette

[Giveit2u43]

Originally Posted by mcyates

Where can i find news feeds for soccer/football

http://www.news4sites.com/service/ne...ech=rss&id=841

[mharmon]

Can someone put together a file with all the modifications for this before I install this?

[Okiewan]

Installed ... everything went well, however, once I set up a bot, and enabled it, it brought my server to it's knees! This is a dual cpu box with a gig of ram, used it all!

I used an existing news forum id.

Any idea what's causing this? (RC3)

Update: Getting the same mySQL error as in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=59

[killervette]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

Installed ... everything went well, however, once I set up a bot, and enabled it, it brought my server to it's knees! This is a dual cpu box with a gig of ram, used it all!

I used an existing news forum id.

Any idea what's causing this? (RC3)

me too!! slowed down extremely

[Giveit2u43]

have done a lot of playing around with this now, have got it working and posting well, but I don`t like having html enabled for the posts so I`ve been trying to parse the html into bbcode but not having much luck.. anybody been succesfull at getting the script to dp that?