That's fine - I realised as much, which is why I forked it in the end. I felt it was best. Seems to be working fine for me. Also fixed an issue that Feed Publisher had where BBCode wasn't processed on the ATOM feeds too!
Great extension Spode, and many thanks for the work.
I'm having a few strange problems with the default install. My "All Discussion Feeds" link serves up feeds in reverse chronological order, beginning with the first post ever on my forum in 2006. Also, when I subscribe to a specific "Discussion Feed" I seem to be getting feeds from various discussions, not limited only to the discussion for which I'm subscribing. Any ideas why this could be happening? I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times.
I have a reasonably large forum that has been running for about two years now. The extension is currently running on the forum at http://www.micsem.org/forum/. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Hi patsjv - that sounds like the sort of thing >I< have screwed up on rather than you. I'll take a look at the code soon (perhaps today). I need to finish another project off first.
Drop me an e-mail and perhaps you could test the code before I release it to make sure the bug is fixed.
I had problems when leaving $ft_conf[ 'EXIT_AFTER_FEED' ] = true;the browser returned an XML parser error like this which disappeared turning it to false.
anyway, great addon! thanks!
btw, I can add my feeds to google reader.
[edit] however the feed is not being updated when I post new comments :( i don't know much about rss syndication, but does it have any refresh rate or whatever? thanks [edit2] the new comment arrived to the rss reader few minutes later. [edit 3] the update manager points out that there is an error with the version number (v 1.00 in the add-ons site, v 1.0.0 in the extension's default.php)
Ok chaps - this should fix all the issues above. The only one I couldn't isolate was:
"Also, when I subscribe to a specific "Discussion Feed" I seem to be getting feeds from various discussions"
This could be something to do with the URLs being built wrong or even the order making it seem that way. But the other thing it could be - is I've just been trying this in Google Reader and it doesn't seem to want to take the overly long and complex urls. I think GR expects more /myrssfeed.xml or something. If you're only running one RSS Feed, you can easily do this with a PHP include and forcing the .xml file to be pre-processed.
Anyways - I've tested this on my sites and seems to be ok - let me know if it fixes everything.
Hey Spode, i love your extensions!
Can you tell me if there is a way to use your extension to generate the feeds but to publish in the site a feedburner link?
Do you understand what i mean?
Thanks
I'm having some problems with this plugin. The RSS and ATOM feeds generated by it only works in Opera RSS. I also tried Evolution (Linux e-mail client), Thunderbird (2.0.0.18 on Linux) and the basic feed reader in Wordpress 2.7(I wanted to connect the forum feed with my blog) and it just doesn't work.
So I tried http://www.michaelpshipley.com/demos/feed-analyzer/ and the only thing it gave me was this
Effective Feed URL:[my site address]/search.php?PostBackAction=Search&Type=Topics&Page=1&Feed=RSS2&FeedTitle=All+Discussions+Feed
Description: none
Copyright: none
Image: none
Latitude/Longitude: none
Dates:
FavIcon: no favicon found
Title: redakcyjne vivee - All Discussions Feed
Link: [my site address]
Feed Type: RSS
Language: none
Encoding: UTF-8
Author: none
Number of items: 0
Do posts have excerpts?
Could you do something about it? I would be very greatful.
greetings
Maciek Palmowski
I figured out why it wasn't working. It worked in Opera because I was logged in, a in Thunderbird, Evolution etc I wasn't (quite logical) and I turned off the posibility for unauthorised user to view my forum.
Now the RSS is working, but all topics are visible, which not to good (it's something like an inside forum just for few people to see).
the problem I have with this extension is that i'ts showing not the last messages, but the old ones in first place (i.e., I get the messages from 10 years ago). How could I fix it?
What version of PHP/Vanilla are you using? I have a feeling there are some specific functions to PHP 5 and also Vanilla 1.15a that might explain this behaviour.
That's very odd. I wonder if this is an incompatibility with another extension. If you have the option - try turning off every extension except FeedThis, and see if it works then? And which version of Vanilla?
Hi. I've been looking for a solution to provide RSS feeds for my forum which I run for a small group of friends and thus I keep everything requiring authentication. This plugin is great because it lets me provide RSS feeds using http authentication rather than requiring that the RSS reader somehow log into the forum.
That being said, I can't seem to get it to work with Google reader. I know that Google reader doesn't support authentication-required feeds of any kind, so I tried to use http://freemyfeed.com/ to provide a pre-authenticated version of the URL.
For whatever reason, when I do that I only get the title of the feed, with none of the posts. The same happens when I use curl (at the command line to get the feed), I get the page through the </rss> tag, but then nothing more.
When I load the same URL into Safari, Firefox or Vienna it seems to work fine.
Any ideas?
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I have a reasonably large forum that has been running for about two years now. The extension is currently running on the forum at http://www.micsem.org/forum/. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·$ft_conf[ 'EXIT_AFTER_FEED' ] = true;the browser returned an XML parser error like thiswhich disappeared turning it to false.
anyway, great addon!
thanks!
btw, I can add my feeds to google reader.
[edit] however the feed is not being updated when I post new comments :( i don't know much about rss syndication, but does it have any refresh rate or whatever?
thanks
[edit2] the new comment arrived to the rss reader few minutes later.
[edit 3] the update manager points out that there is an error with the version number (v 1.00 in the add-ons site, v 1.0.0 in the extension's default.php)
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·"Also, when I subscribe to a specific "Discussion Feed" I seem to be getting feeds from various discussions"
This could be something to do with the URLs being built wrong or even the order making it seem that way. But the other thing it could be - is I've just been trying this in Google Reader and it doesn't seem to want to take the overly long and complex urls. I think GR expects more /myrssfeed.xml or something. If you're only running one RSS Feed, you can easily do this with a PHP include and forcing the .xml file to be pre-processed.
Anyways - I've tested this on my sites and seems to be ok - let me know if it fixes everything.
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·I think it is a SEO bug, because it create duplicate content with my original URL to post
http://mysite.com/discussion/123/some-topic-title/
Google index both of them.
Is there any chance to have full URLs with titles in feeds (http://mysite.com/discussion/123/some-topic-title/) ?
I was trying all feeds extensions, but all of them display similar URLs.
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·@palmiak - I'm not sure what would cause the issue I'm afraid. The URL you've put above for Analyzing Feeds works fine with my feeds.
http://www.michaelpshipley.com/demos/feed-analyzer/?url=http://www.thinkabouttech.com/search/?PostBackAction=Search&Type=Comments&Page=1&Feed=RSS2&BlogSearch=1&FeedTitle=Blog+Feed&submit=Analyze
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·Now the RSS is working, but all topics are visible, which not to good (it's something like an inside forum just for few people to see).
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·Can I get some more specific details on that. Are you using category roles?
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How could I fix it?
Thank you.
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0 · Insightful Awesome LOL ·What version of PHP/Vanilla are you using? I have a feeling there are some specific functions to PHP 5 and also Vanilla 1.15a that might explain this behaviour.
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