[ABD] lastRSS autoposting bot MOD (0.1.4)

[clintz]

ok so i figured out why you are getting the duplicate posts...

phpBB3 automatically truncates the topics to 60 characters. This mod truncates only to 100.

They dont match because the topic from the mod has up to 40 more characters.

You can either fix this by shortening the substr to 0,60 or by modifying the phpbb code to allow 100 character titles.

includes/function_content.php line 1070

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function truncate_string($string, $max_length = 60, $allow_reply = true, $append = '')

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function truncate_string($string, $max_length = 100, $allow_reply = true, $append = '')

This is probably not reccommended, but I'm going with the 2nd option

edit: seems to work great

[FPStactics]

I just wanted to say thanks for this! I've gotten it working on my Combat Arms Forum

You can see the bot here:
http://www.fpstactics.com/nvidia-f21/

[jmaraujo]

Great news, clintz!!!

Do you know how to patch the mod to include CDATA content?

Thanks!
Juan M.

[clintz]

Great news, clintz!!!

Do you know how to patch the mod to include CDATA content?

Thanks!
Juan M.

Not a clue, I exhausted all my phpbb knowledge just figuring that one part out...

[jmaraujo]

Not a clue, I exhausted all my phpbb knowledge just figuring that one part out...

No problem. Thanks for the fix.

[digitard]

I feel stupid cause I can't figure out why it wont work...

Loaded up the files. Edited the appropriate options. Updated the SQL add with a new name, updated url (http://www.wowinsider.com/rss.xml), changed the 2nd to last (forum) to 26 which is my setup forum for that... and nothing. I tried both with my user as the poster (the default 2) and a custom bot user.

It's just not updating... can't figure it out. Making me sad. Le sob!

Sleepy time.

**Edit before sleepy time: EDITED AGAIN! I see it defaults to curl ... my host blocks FOPEN so CURL is my only option, and it defaults to that. Okay, now I can't figure it out.

[madtay]

Still looking for a way to modify this section of code:

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[url]' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . '[/url]';

would like to change it so that the link appears as a 'Read More...' rather than the full link, example below:

http://www.phpbb.com change to >>> Read More...

If anyone knows how please let me know

[clintz]

Still looking for a way to modify this section of code:

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[url]' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . '[/url]';

would like to change it so that the link appears as a 'Read More...' rather than the full link, example below:

http://www.phpbb.com change to >>> Read More...

If anyone knows how please let me know

change from

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[url]' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . '[/url]';

to

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[url=' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . ']Read More...[/url]';

[clintz]

I feel stupid cause I can't figure out why it wont work...

Loaded up the files. Edited the appropriate options. Updated the SQL add with a new name, updated url (http://www.wowinsider.com/rss.xml), changed the 2nd to last (forum) to 26 which is my setup forum for that... and nothing. I tried both with my user as the poster (the default 2) and a custom bot user.

It's just not updating... can't figure it out. Making me sad. Le sob!

Sleepy time.

**Edit before sleepy time: EDITED AGAIN! I see it defaults to curl ... my host blocks FOPEN so CURL is my only option, and it defaults to that. Okay, now I can't figure it out.

It seems to have issues with some feeds, I'm patiently waiting for an update, I think this mod has great potential..

[madtay]

Still looking for a way to modify this section of code:

Code: Select all

[url]' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . '[/url]';

would like to change it so that the link appears as a 'Read More...' rather than the full link, example below:

http://www.phpbb.com change to >>> Read More...

If anyone knows how please let me know

change from

Code: Select all

[url]' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . '[/url]';

to

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[url=' . $post_data['items'][$i]['link'] . ']Read More...[/url]';

This worked perfectly Thankyou very much.

PS. You seem to know alot about this mod so i just thought id ask if u knew what is causing the error i posted earlier in the thread or why it is showing up in error log:

Im also seeing this error in the error log:

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{LOG ERROR LASTRSS}
RSS: ()
Feed wasn´t updated, because malformed

Thanks again

[clintz]

nope sorry, i dont know much about the mod or rss in general, I just know some php.

[kiran_n444]

I've got everythign setup, and its still not posting RSS feeds into the selected forums, infact its not postig at all.

[Kojote1980]

Hi really hope Smix will be back with a status update :/ I follow this thread quite some time already but nothing seems to move on, which is probably understandable as everyone has a real life Still... a status update would be nice and appreciated! Thanks in advance

[Trinity]

I have this working, no problem installing. However, nothing is being posted to the appropriate forum. The permissions are fine, user is correct. Just nothing. I've tried two different feeds.

[jmaraujo]

The feeds I tested that were not working I think it weren't working because the description was in CDATA content. For example:

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<description><![CDATA[ 

{DESCRIPTION TEXT}

]]></description>

I tested those same feeds with the original lastRSS parser and they're all working. So the problem is the CDATA tag.

Also, it would be great if we could get the content between <content:encoded> tags.