[DEV] Smixmods Feed News Center v0.3.4

[Smix]

MOD Name: SmiX.MODs Feed News Center
MOD Version: 0.3.4
formerly known as lastRSS agregator & lastRSS autoposting bot .MODs, which were (or will be) merged and reworked
lastRSS parser class is not used anymore
If you need to uninstall lastRSS autoposting bot, you can check the original MODX file there



MOD Description: Creates RSS & ATOM feeds input to your board - posts content into forums, shows news as ticking news block ...

If you like my work and if you want to support the development of this mod, you can do it these ways
or


Features:

• Parses:
  • RSS
  • ATOM
  • RDF
• Automatically posts new items gathered from RSS feed
• CRON mode
• ACP
• Different poster for different feeds
• Displays news from the feeds in block above forums (NOT FINISHED - will be introduced in next versions)

Requirements:

• PHP5
• phpBB v3.0.6+

Works with:

• Tested
  • 3.0.6+ (required)

Live demo board

• http://phpbb3.smika.net/viewforum.php?f=64

Bugtracker (please report bugs to bugstracker)

• http://phpbb3.smika.net/board/tracker.php?p=5

Installation Level: Easy
Installation Time: 5 in Minutes
Format: MODX

Download File:
http://phpbb3.smika.net

You can also follow the development of this mod on: Github | Ohloh | @smixmods

[Smix]

Further informations :

• If you are using lastRSS agregator modification, please stay and do not uninstall it, agregator & newsticker functions wasn´t implemented yet

General configuration of this mod
index init - if enabled, than index.php will update latest data of the feed ...
index posting - if enabled, while index.php is inited, it will make a post in specified forum ...
cron init - if enabled, no actions wil be performed on index - so enable this only if you'll set up a cron job on your server, initing update_feeds.php
cron posting - if enabled, feed items will be posted into specified forum, if update_feeds.php is inited ...
download function - must be set, to function, which is available on your server, possible values are "simplexml", "curl" and "fopen" ... This mod doesn't work without simplexml library, which is part of PHP5, but simplexml_load_xml might be unavailable, therefore use curl or fopen value.

Recommended settings :
If not using cron job on your server
index init - enabled
index posting - enabled
cron init - disabled
cron posting - disabled
download function - simplexml

Screenshot
http://phpbb3.smika.net/images/acp_gene ... ration.png

Screenshot of settings for feed, which is posted into forum 2, poster is ID 2 ...
http://phpbb3.smika.net/images/yahoo_acp.png

Known bugs :

• (all versions) read/unread status of forum & posts are not visible as latest in the forum ...

Roadmap

• 0.1.0 - new parsing core
• 0.2.0 - implement APBot
• 0.3.0 - implement ACP
• 0.4.0 - implement templating
• 0.5.0 - ticker showing news
• 0.6.0 - block(s)/page showing news

[Hippie459MN]

Very nice work! Will have to check this out today and see how it works out.

Thanks for all of your hard work.

[Nawid]

Thank you verry much!

[Hippie459MN]

Is there any read mes or anything for setting this up to post feeds? I am kind of lost on what all the setting are for and or do and what is need to make my user create some posts.

Looks great and cant wait for the ticker to be installed on this.

[Smix]

Hello,
if you'll set index init to enabled, than index.php will update latest data of the feed ... If you'll also turn index posting to enabled than it will make a post in specified forum ... Making topic replies is not working yet.
If you'll enable cron init - no actions wil be performed on index - so enable this only if you'll set up a cron job on your server, initing update_feeds.php
... If cron posting is enabled, feed items will be posted into specified forum ...

Newsticker will come, when I'll find a cool one

[Sajaki]

Atom integration ? Excellent

[imkingdavid]

I may be interested. Good luck with it!

[Mess]

Looking good, I'm gonna follow the development of this.

[mutank]

I applied the edits and ran the install.php and I got this at the top of my board

"Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/mutank/testboard/forums/includes/mods/smixmods_feed_news_center.class.php on line 715"

Line 715 is

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   submit_post ('post', $subject, '', POST_NORMAL, &$poll, &$data, true, true);

EDIT: I have submitted a bug report ticket.

[Smix]

Hello,

thank you for bug report! ... If you are having this issue, please re-download the package (0.3.0a) and copy the files over the old ...

I´m sorry for possible problems ...

[rabbmasterflash]

well, it seemed to install ok...I am waiting for it to post now...

[therat]

The find in language/en/acp/common.php is slightly different in mine, all appears to be working so I assume it's the same file.

This is what you say find

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'LOG_ERROR_EMAIL'      => 'E-mail error» %s',

I have this

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'LOG_ERROR_EMAIL'      => '<strong>E-mail error</strong><br />» %s',

Theres also an error in the DIY instructions with this line, I assume you should copy this to root

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After editing all templates, copy file contrib/install.php to contrib/install.php.

[Smix]

@therat
Thanks for informations about bad installation instructions, I´ll check it ...

About the file location, no, it´s correct, copy to contrib/install.php and run the script ...


@rabbmasterflash
... why are you waiting? ... check your settings, after submitting the form, the feed will be checked, parsed and maybe posted ... It depends on the settings you´ve got in the "General Configuration" part of this mod ACP. Defaultly it´s everything disabled

[rabbmasterflash]

I added the feed, and have Index Init and Index Posting enabled, I identified a Forum, User and Topic and haven't seen a post yet