[ABD] lastRSS autoposting bot MOD (0.1.4)

[Tripp]

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.

The CDATA thing is a known bug...please skim the thread before making a post about something that has been addressed several times already.

[jmaraujo]

I know about the CDATA tag bug. I even asked the author about that problem several pages behind...

My post is not about the CDATA bug, but about what I think could be the reason for some feeds not working. (Several users are posting that the mod is not working with some feeds).

[Trinity]

It worked but it posted about 10 times in a row of the same topic. I went in and deleted the topics, but they still show up in the active topics link.

[kiran_n444]

It worked but it posted about 10 times in a row of the same topic. I went in and deleted the topics, but they still show up in the active topics link.

To fix the Duplicate Post Problem Do this:

Find:
/includes/function_content.php

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function truncate_string($string, $max_length = 60

Change to:

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function truncate_string($string, $max_length = 100

And save. Essentially what this does is change the Char Length of the Title in the Thread Title to the same amount of what the bot uses. Some1 on page 22 posted this but there was an error in the FIND line. Enjoy =)

[Auden]

Hello...

This mod works perfectly on my board (with the last fix) but i've some problem with this type => ' (apostrophe)

Exemple :



The title shoud be :
Hommage au jeune footballeur victime de l’accident de car.

Anybody know how i can fix this problem ??

Thanks !

[DiegoPino]

Very Cool thah Mod

I hope news

[blitztrading]

I installed this mod and it's working (almost) OK.

I have 2 questions :
- how to change the topic title to add the publishing time : in functions_lastrss_autopost.php I have to change this line :
$subject = $post_data['name'] . ' | ' . $post_data['items'][$i]['title'];

But how ?

- is that mod compatible with a xml feed instead of RSS ?

Thx

[Damien Boyle]

Hello...

This mod works perfectly on my board (with the last fix) but i've some problem with this type => ' (apostrophe)

Exemple :



The title shoud be :
Hommage au jeune footballeur victime de l’accident de car.

Anybody know how i can fix this problem ??

Thanks !

Have the same problem but mines is in the post itself, any fix for this?

Demo : http://www.mixjunkies.com/madox-lp-excl ... -t306.html

[blitztrading]

I found a solution to my issue to add the date in the topic title: I changed functions_lastrss_autopost.php as follows

$post_time = (sizeof($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) > 0) ? strtotime($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) : 0;
$subject = $post_data['name'] . ' | ' . dd($post_time) . ' - ' . $post_data['items'][$i]['title'];

This works for certain RSS feed, but for other, the date is set to the current date and not the date declared in the RSS feed.

Can someone help????

Thx

[clintz]

I found a solution to my issue to add the date in the topic title: I changed functions_lastrss_autopost.php as follows

$post_time = (sizeof($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) > 0) ? strtotime($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) : 0;
$subject = $post_data['name'] . ' | ' . dd($post_time) . ' - ' . $post_data['items'][$i]['title'];

This works for certain RSS feed, but for other, the date is set to the current date and not the date declared in the RSS feed.

Can someone help????

Thx

You'd have to figure out why $post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate'] is blank. If it's blank php's date function will use the current date.

[blitztrading]

Here is the feed working (date is retrieved from the feed)
http://www.cambiste.com/cambiste/actual ... ssfeed.php

Here is the feed not working (date is the current date)
http://www.forex.fr/index2.php?option=d ... &feed_id=1

When I look at the feeds, both contain the date, but the second one does not use pubtime variable, but dc:date.

How to transform the code to support both variables?

Thx

[blitztrading]

Here is the feed working (date is retrieved from the feed)
http://www.cambiste.com/cambiste/actual ... ssfeed.php

Here is the feed not working (date is the current date)
http://www.forex.fr/index2.php?option=d ... &feed_id=1

When I look at the feeds, both contain the date, but the second one does not use pubtime variable, but dc:date.

How to transform the code to support both variables?

Thx

I did the following, and it is working :
$post_time = (sizeof($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) > 0) ? strtotime($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) : 0;

if (($post_data['items'][$i]['pubDate']) == NULL)
{
$subject = $post_data['name'] . ' | ' . $post_data['items'][$i]['title'];

}
else
{
$subject = $post_data['name'] . ' | ' . dd($post_time) . ' - ' . $post_data['items'][$i]['title'];
}

It is not optimal, but I do not have duplicates with dates inserted in the topic title

[almanshuurah]

Very nice mods..
When this mods support more than 1 Feed url ??
So i can post more than 1 feeds with one bot..

Thanks..

[blitztrading]

Actually, cou can do this, simply declare as many entries in phpbb_lastrss_autopost as RSS feeds, and this will work.

The only constraint is that the feeds will be posted with always the same user (define in phpbb_config)

Have fun ...

[almanshuurah]

DOes it support more than 1 feeds ?