Create MOD to Autopost RSS FEEDS to Forum (Specs)

[subfighter]

Extraction this what i wanted to know if your were interested as there is no Finished MOD like this there is only one listed on phpbb.com and it only partially done... So this is something that is needed...

http://phpbb3.smika.net/mods.php?mod=10

You can see what it also in action over at my site..

http://www.subfighter.tv/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=35

As i have about 6 RSS FEEDS that it grabs the RSS ARTICLES from every 8 HOURS but you can set what it increments by the hour. The problem is that it does not use a cron job and it needs some to visit the board.. And it lags for 35 seconds why it updates the FEEDS as it scans the entire forum post instead of having an option to just Scan the Current Forum its posting in so there are no Duplicate.

I will layout the Main Specs on what I need and you can let me know if your interested and how much.. we will call it RSS FEED EXTRACTION

MAIN CONFIG ACP in BACKEND
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++ENABLE/DISABLE options to turn the entire RSS FEED EXTRACTION off

1. ACP in the BACKEND to ADD the RSS or XML feeds that will be CHECKED.

Options Needed for EACH FEED.
++Option Input RSS FEED to be checked example (http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=rss.home)
++Option for INPUT whatever USERID for each FEED
++Option to ENABLE/DISABLE FEED
++Option to INPUT the NUMBER of newest ARTICLES it should grab.
++Option to CHECK RSS FEED in Minutes And use CRON JOB in CPANEL

Here where I edited the code so that it used the BBCODES from ABBC3 MOD to place around the RSS LINK.
++ So what is needed is an OPTION to PLACE what custom BBCODE tags around the the RSS FEED LINK.. [web 100%,600][/web]
I want to grab ARTICLE FEED from the UFC but i want the links in the IFRAME using the ABBC3 MOD so it would look like this

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 [web 100%,600]http://www.mmafighting.com/news/2009/02/06/ufc-fight-night-lauzon-vs-stephens-weigh-results[/web]

But other RSS FEEDS i want from your YOUTUBE using their API along with a couple of the other REMOTE VIDEO sites supported by ABBC3 MOD as they also have an API that supported RSS FEEDS.

here is the example of the YOUTUBE Feed

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/vide ... =THIS_WEEK

so it would grab the feed but with the VIDEO FEEDS it would put a different CUSTOM BBDCODE around the link so the video is embedded in the post instead of the iframe.. so switched BBCODE manually in the code from [web 100%,600][/web] to [BBvideo 720,480][/BBvideo] to be around the RSS FEED LINK then it looks like the example below

http://www.subfighter.tv/phpBB3/viewtop ... 21&t=80850

you can go see how i dumped like 50 posts to my FORUM using the YOUTUBE RSS FEED and the video is automatically embedded with the usename UFC

http://www.subfighter.tv/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=21

thats basically it...

Just either need ARTICLES embed with the IFRAME since the RSS FEEDS only list the first hundreded Characters.

And VIDEO RSS FEEDS will Embed the VIDEO as the ABBC3 MOD supports something like 30 REMOTE SERVERS.. all you need to do is put the [BBvideo 720,480][/BBvideo] around the supported VIDEO LINKS and it does the rest..

So let me know if your interested in doing this.. as i got it working somewhat working now but the big issue for me is performance because it should run with a cronjob and only check for duplicates in the FORUM ID it assigned to instead of all Forum Posts.. as i got over 1 million Topics..

RSS FEED EXTRACTION

thanks
rick estrada

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I am afraid a mod like that would take a bit more time than I have available for modification work.

If you just want a few things changed in the lastRSS mod I might be able to do that however, like have it use the phpBB3 cron system (would run every X hours if a user has accessed, but would not cause the user to wait until it is finished before they can do something else) or have it setup so you can use a cron task on the server for it (something I've never done).

[subfighter]

yeah a few things changed would be fine.. mostly just making a the ACP and adding a couple of the options i listed. as most of its already all done...

the CRON JOB with PHPBB would probably be fine....

[EXreaction]

Alright, send me a PM with the things you want added/changed and I'll take a look at it.

[subfighter]

ok i will send you a pm

[Elli_4benett]

Hi there, I have finished my RSS feed, tested it and all works perfectly, but when I remove an article from my feed it still showed in the reader. How do i get the reader to see the article is no longer part of the feed. i appreciate your help.
http://www.rsschannelwriter.com/

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I don't know, I didn't write your RSS reader.