[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

[Zero Tolerance]

Might be a bug with the vb products system, anyhow, i updated the zip so the install code was for v1.0, and not v1.5. Should still execute for new users installing fresh.

- Zero Tolerance

[Gryphon]

It would be great if you could choose to skip the initial import and only have it add news from point of activation on.

Also, I noticed that it just keeps track of the last title added in the db. Currently I want to implement a feed that is not keep up chronologically. It is a list of most popular news items within the past 6 hours.

For example it may say:

News title 1
News title 2
News title 3
News title 4

Then six hours later:

News title 1
News title 5
News title 6
News title 3

What I would like it to do is post what is new between the last feed and the current feed whithout, of course, posting what has already been posted, if possible :ermm:

Quite a bit more complex but tossing out the request anyway

[Floris]

Karma++ for this resource, good job and I hope v2 is around the corner, can't wait.

Btw; bug fix for manual cron in rc2


[edit]
By the way, what should I change so the assigned username that makes the newthreads also instant-email-subscribes to it?

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally Posted by floris

Karma++ for this resource, good job and I hope v2 is around the corner, can't wait.

Btw; bug fix for manual cron in rc2


[edit]
By the way, what should I change so the assigned username that makes the newthreads also instant-email-subscribes to it?

It would require a lump of code being added into the includes/class_ffrss.php, however for v2 i can make it feed specific if you want, when adding/editing a feed you choose the desired subscription type for the user account posting the thread(s).

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[XtremeOffroad]

Everything seems fine except any forum where I have news posted come up as done but with errors on page and the drop down menu's wont work. All pages not associated with the news are ok, Any Ideas?
This is since the update.

This might be with vb itself since it applies to pages where there are more then one page of topics in any one forum.
I'll shoot this by vb.com.

Edit,It turns out the error is in the style I'm using.

Edit2: Problem solved. YAY
:nervous: :nervous:

[Floris]

Originally Posted by Zero Tolerance

It would require a lump of code being added into the includes/class_ffrss.php, however for v2 i can make it feed specific if you want, when adding/editing a feed you choose the desired subscription type for the user account posting the thread(s).

- Zero Tolerance

Never mind in that case, I've made a new user who will make the posts. Seems to work just fine.

http://www.vbulletin-fans.com/showthread.php?t=10619
Just a few parsing things I'd like to see a stripper for
I still don't like turning on HTML in forums.

[XtremeOffroad]

Originally Posted by floris

Never mind in that case, I've made a new user who will make the posts. Seems to work just fine.

http://www.vbulletin-fans.com/showthread.php?t=10619
Just a few parsing things I'd like to see a stripper for
I still don't like turning on HTML in forums.

I like this Idea of creating a new member to act as the news poster, Mind if I ummm borrow it :squareeyed:
Why didnt I think of this.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

I am very very sad...

I still get this message for every feed I try (bbc example):

While attempting to parse the document located at "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newson...nt_page/rss.xml" the system encountered the following error:
Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given

Please check settings related to this issue.

anyone where to BEGIN looking for where this problem is coming from?

[Mr.D]

Instalated and working fine. I was waiting for this for a long time.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by MadMan

Instalated and working fine. I was waiting for this for a long time.

ARRRRGHH!!!!!!


even the auto detector gives me:

invalid url to rss feed given