BoardMod Support Forum - RSS Feed mod 1.0b7

ironwing Mod Writer Offline Posts: 2330	Reply #75 - 24.04.04 at 14:49:13 @CDTrips: Just a note to let you know I haven't forgotten about your problem. I don't have a solution yet, but I am learning a lot in the process of looking for one. Dan
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BillBSET Hacker God Offline Posts: 698	Reply #76 - 26.04.04 at 07:31:01 Cool Stuff... I installed ver 1.0b7 and interestingly it is displaying guests & Member Email addresses... when in the RSSReader http://www.rssreader.com/ ... I tried clearing my cookie,,, logged out and restarted browser and RSS Reader... Still could see the email addresses..?? maybe I missed something... Cool mod ... Thanks Bill
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ironwing Mod Writer Offline Posts: 2330	Reply #77 - 26.04.04 at 14:10:47 Do you use IE as your regular browser? Dan
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BillBSET Hacker God Offline Posts: 698	Reply #78 - 26.04.04 at 22:22:30 Hi,,, Yes, I use IE6 and was using RSSReader... I will test more tonight and post more
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Reply #79 - 26.04.04 at 23:05:51

For those who noticed that beta 8 was here and now it's gone, it crapped out so bad upon further testing that I yanked it.

Getting the CSS stuff into the feed item descriptions is turning out to be a major pain. As near as I can tell the only way to do it is to write a CSS parser that takes the CSS rules out of the forum template and replaces the CSS calls in the message bodies with inline CSS tags. I don't think I'll be able to do it. This would require that I more or less recreate the CSS cascading rules that a browser goes through to derive the correct inline tags for each call.

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Reply #80 - 27.04.04 at 08:43:04

I don't know why but the rssreader when I click on Read More
No other icons just email addresses of Guests... and some members... not all ?? I have tried logging out and in as someone
else, not admin or Gmod...
I can't figure it out there is no rhyme or reason...
it shows All Guests and some members email addresses..

http://www.grandlakelinks.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=rss

Cool stuff,,, Good Luck with it...
I will continue to test this...

Thanks

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ironwing Mod Writer Offline Posts: 2330	Reply #81 - 27.04.04 at 16:35:33 @BilBSET: Okay, I see the problem and have been able to reproduce on my forum. I'll work on a fix. In the mean time you could switch to using the short form descriptions to prevent folks from seeing the email addresses. Dan
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Reply #82 - 27.04.04 at 17:05:51

Hmmm, if you log out of Boardmod here and then look around the boards you will see that showing the emails for guests is default YaBB behavior even if the viewer is a guest.

That being said, I think that the "long form" descriptions are still too bloated and I'm thinking about stripping them down further. The email addresses are certainly one thing that could go, as well as many of the buttons. I think the short form descriptions better implement the RSS idea that less is more.

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BillBSET Hacker God Offline Posts: 698	Reply #83 - 28.04.04 at 07:44:26 Hi,,, My forums don't show Guest email addresses to anyone but Admins... hmmm... I guess I have a mod or have done something to prevent it... Really like this tool.. it appears to be the coming thing... GOOD WORK!! thanks bill
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Reply #84 - 24.08.04 at 13:37:34

I finally found this board. lol I bugged Dan in PM because I couldn't find this board. Grin

I got this mod to work but I still get errors with some new posts. Dan saw I had weird characters in a few posts like a ... as one character. I then had more errors but not sure of the characters causing it now. It might be the apostrophe. How about " or &?

Two new questions. One, how can I find the exact characters listed in the error message (line, character #)? In case I come across another character error not fixed yet, I want to quickly fix it so the RSS isn't errored out too long.

Two, is there a way to ONLY send the 1st post of each topic to RSS? I don't want replies sent to RSS. Worst case scenario: I'll only allow staff to post but I'd like the topics to be discussed.

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Reply #85 - 28.08.04 at 13:59:07

Hi John,

To fix the characters you already have plus a couple more, in RSS_Display.pl find:

Code:

	$_[0] =~ s/ÿ/&#255;/g;

and add these lines after it:

Code:


	$_[0] =~ s/‘/&#8216;/g;
	$_[0] =~ s/’/&#8217;/g;
	$_[0] =~ s/…/&#8230;/g;
	$_[0] =~ s/‰/&#8240;/g;

Save and upload to your Sources directory in ASCII mode.

To add other funky characters to the list just follow the pattern above, where the weird character sits between the first and second slashs and the character code replacing it sits between the second and third slashs. There is a pretty good list of the html character codes here: http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/

To figure out which character is breaking your feed use the feed validator and look for the red question marks in the error messages; these mark the locations of bad characters. Then look at the same post in your forum and see which character the validator didn't understand.

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ironwing Mod Writer Offline Posts: 2330	Reply #86 - 28.08.04 at 14:10:32 To have the first post in a thread listed in the feed instead of the last, in RRS_Display.pl find: Code: while( <FILE> ) { $recentmessage = $_; } and replace it with: Code: # while( <FILE> ) { $recentmessage = $_; } @tempmessages = <FILE>; $recentmessage = $tempmessages[0]; Dan
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RonB Guest	Reply #87 - 01.09.04 at 21:46:45 I haven't gotten the RSS feed to work, it only show the html page on feedvalidator.com.. anyone got a newer beta that might work to share?
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Reply #88 - 05.12.04 at 11:05:04

Hi, just wanted to say that I installed this mod and it works fine for me. My forum doesn't allow guest posting.

I don't know what effect this has, but I altered the last occurance of action=rssdisplay in RSS_Display.pl to action=display. I use SmartbarXP and added a component for the news ticker to display the latest posts.

Before changing it, it showed my forum pages using the correct style but no yabb menu at the top. By changing the rssdisplay to display, the links open up the correct page in the normal forum. So if your logged in or out, it's the same as if anyone visits the forum.

Seems to be working perfectly, but I'm going to download some other feedreader's and see what happens with them.

Nice mod folks. I like it and it seems to work for me Wink

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Reply #89 - 06.12.04 at 20:11:54

DOES NOT WORK Sad

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I installed the RSS mod, wich is supposed to be a released version.

I installed it and apparently everything was ok.. no errors and perfect access in control panel

So I configured it...

Then... I dont see any page on RSS format!!!!

just tried to type ?action=rss after "yabb.cgi" on url, but does show a so strange page like txt format. How you show the rss thing ??? *

Quote:

as suggested in html help page

http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=rss

* what it shows is ten txt urls like this

http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=1020201888;action=rssdisplay;n... + date

this, ten times...

when put on internet explorer that 10 url just shows forum messages without the heading ... kind of wired this taking place

The point is that the http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?action=rss doesnt show a page in rss format, with the logo I ut and the usual three color lines.....

Please help!!

Thanks anticipated. Hope to see it in action!

« Last Edit: 06.12.04 at 20:51:43 by DelaMn »

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