FeedThis

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FeedThis

Grahack

This is great Spode, though I didn't test your code yet. Sorry for not being able to help more, I'm quite busy at the moment.

spode

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!

patsjv

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.

Thanks in advance for your help.

spode

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.

patsjv

Happy to help test, Spode, but can't figure out an email address to contact you.

spode

spode@thinkabouttech.com

dkodr

Strangely I can't add feeds generated by your extension to Google Reader. But they work fine as Live Bookmarks in Firefox...

spode

That *is* odd. I haven't changed anything with the Feed Generation particularly. Does it give any reasons?

miquel

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)

spode

Thanks Miquel - I'll look into all those issues! This is my top priority - I'm just very busy right now :)

jimmyliew

Can it work with closed forum? When I subscribe in NetNewsWire, it kept refusing to accept my username/password.

sunwares

?When using the feed, the post is listing start form oldest to newer. How to change to make it to list the newest or latest post on top ?

spode

These are both issues I'll be looking at very soon.

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version 1.01 of FeedThis.

spode

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.

vaniller

URLs created by this extension looks like: http://mysite.com/discussion/123/
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.

spode

Good point. I imagine that is fixable - I shall look into it :)

bochenn

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

spode

Hi bochenn - not at the moment. But I do need to look into FeedBurner at some point, so I'll try and add support.

palmiak

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

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version 1.02 of FeedThis.

spode

FeedBurner support now added via the finetune.php file, and I've solved the URL issue too.

@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&amp;submit=Analyze

palmiak

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).

spode

"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)."

Can I get some more specific details on that. Are you using category roles?

argie01

Hi,

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?

Thank you.

argie01

And problem else: it doesn't matter what settings I use for the feeds: they shows THE SAME last 10 years ago posts, always.

spode

Hi argie01

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.

argie01

Hello,

Im using php 5.2.6, mysql 5.0.67-community, and apache 1.3.41.

Thank you.

spode

Hi Argie,

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?

blakepaw

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?