Feed Discussions not feeding discussions

Prosper

This discussion is related to the Feed Discussions addon.

I installed the plug-in "Feed Discussion" with 8 Active Feeds as written below but haven't seen any discussion from the feeds. Please is there something I have done wrong? Your answers will be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

8 Active Feeds

http://www.jobberman.com/rss/ Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

http://www.punchng.com/comments/feed/ Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_showbiz.rss Updated: never Refresh: Daily Category: General

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

http://www.aweber.com/blog/feed/ Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_freevideo.rss Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

http://www.vanguardngr.com/feed/ Updated: never Refresh: Every Minute Category: General

www.vanguardngr.com/feed/ Updated: never Refresh: Daily Category: General

Prosper

Please can someone help me on how to make the "Feed Discussions Plug-in" work on my forum? Help needed here please.

K3nB

I've tried it out recently in my newly-installed Vanilla forum, too. It just sits there - never seen a single post appear from it. I have one feed set to update every minute (just for testing purposes) and the last refresh timestamp on that feed is from over 24 hours ago. Any suggestions?

mclovin

Try manually going to http://yourvanillasite.com/plugin/feeddiscussions/checkfeeds, and see if that does anything. In my case case, it was the jquery that was broken.

peregrine

For what it's worth I had 3 or 4 problems

I have a slow connection so I had to change functions.general.php around line 1719

I think the curl_setopt doesn't function properly - even If I set $Timeout to 1000000

  if ($Timeout > 0)
        //    curl_setopt($Handler, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $Timeout);

the above allowed me to add a feed.

next to allow the feed to download without timing out

I had to change class.proxyrequest.php

around line 45

I added these:

 $ConnectTimeout = 10000;
     $ReadTimeout = 100000;

next to avoid the minion plugin problem I commented it out in my versions of

feed.discussionsplugin.php on line 314 and 315.

  //    $Minion = Gdn::PluginManager()->GetPluginInstance('MinionPlugin');
     //    $InsertUserID = $Minion->GetMinionUserID();

Prosper

Please where can I find the functions.general.php, class.proxyrequest.php and feed.discussionsplugin.php as you mentioned?

peregrine

you can use grep, dir ls, etc to find files such as functions.general.php -

see this discussion for explanation on those tools

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20721/what-php-file-contains-the-content-for-the-email-confirmed-page

this relates to the feed.discussionsplugin.php

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/164567/#Comment_164567

Prosper

I downloaded and installed grep but not been able to find functions.general.php, class.proxyrequest.php and feed.discussionsplugin.php as you mentioned? Please is there any other way to find the files. Where can I see them? For example /www.yourforum.com/plugins/FeedDiscussions/views

peregrine

as you will note from my previous comment to this thread -** the plugin has been removed **. I would wait until is re-added.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/164567/#Comment_164567

if you cannot find functions.general.php, I would avoid modifying any core files.

download the vanilla zip files and extract to your home computer and do a recursive directory listing to search for any programs you want.

/vanilla/library/core/functions.general.php

Prosper

Ok thank you I have found functions.general.php, and class.proxyrequest.php but cannot find feed.discussionsplugin.php. Is the file name feed.discussionsplugin.php correct?

peregrine

Is the file name feed.discussionsplugin.php correct?

right you are in this case - it should be class.feed.discussionsplugin.php

but like I say the plugin has been deleted.

Prosper

I think the correct file name is class.feeddiscussions.plugin.php but still NO discussion has been fed to my forum

peregrine

as mclovin suggested you can manually load. - http://yourvanillasite.com/plugin/feeddiscussions/checkfeeds

this worked for me after I made the changes to the files I wrote about in the threads above

class.feeddiscussions.plugin.php (you are right again).

you might be able to use the cron plugin - I haven't used it - to automate process if you can't get feeds automatically.

But since the plugin has been removed, you may draw some conclusion.

Prosper

I love the plugin and that is why I want to make it work for me irrespective of the fact that the plugin (feeddiscussion) has been discontinued. It is feeding discussion topics to my test-site but my problem with the plugin now is how to make it feed all details of the discussion instead of just segment of the discussion.

Please take a look at what was fed to my test site at http://tests.naijanetwork.com/discussion/225/makoko-slum-dwellers-need-a-new-life-lagos-lawmaker

but the full discussion is as this http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/makoko-slum-dwellers-need-a-new-life-lagos-lawmaker/

Please is there a code on the feeddiscussion plugin that I suppose to edit / add to make it feed all the detail of the discussions at once instead of segment?

peregrine

you can't get what the other site doesn't feed.

I wish you the best in your venture and hope that I did provide you some help in getting an unsupported and removed plugin to retrieve feeds for you (at the very least manually).

good luck - over and out.

maybe you can hire (not me) someone that scrapes the full discussions off of a site.

Prosper

Alright, thanks for your help