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Feed Discussions not feeding discussions

ProsperProsper ✭✭
edited June 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

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

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited July 2012

    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();
    

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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

  • 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

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • 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

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited September 2012

    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

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • 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?

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited September 2012

    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.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited September 2012

    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.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • 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?

  • Alright, thanks for your help

  • HELLO,

    how do i get feeddiscussions to actually add feeds to discussion? i tried but nothing is displaying.

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