[RC1] Full Syndication Suite 1.0.RC1 (RSS/ATOM)

[Tuk]

Full Syndication Suite

Latest release: 1.0.RC1

See http://startrekguide.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=59179#p59179 for details and download package.
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First of all: I realized too late that there already are (planned) implementations of such a MOD. When I discovered this I was already half finished and decided to go on...

My version of this MOD presents the following features:

• syndication of:
  
  • topics of complete board
  • posts of complete board
  • a forum's/category's topics (in- or excluding subforums)
  • a forum's/category's posts (in- or excluding subforums)
  • a topic's posts
• RSS2 and ATOM support (preferred format can be chosen in UCP)
• admin can globally or per forum enabled or disabled syndication
• admin can set the number of items displayed in a feed (load related setting)
• supports display of BBCode

I'm currently doing the last testings and code cleanups and expect to have a public test version available in the middle of this week. The MOD will be fully compliant to phpBB's coding guidelines and will be in the new MODX format.

[Highway of Life]

Awesome Tuk!!
Hey, one less thing I have to do.

Here is my development topic, I didn?t get much done on it, but feel free to take any ideas/feature requests for your own.
Can?t wait to see it!!

[Tuk]

Ok, so here we go .

The first version is available in SVN. You can browse the files or download an archive. The features are as listed above.

There are still some things to do:

• support for ATOM is still missing, currently only RSS2 is implemented. I want to get the overall code basis finished first, before concentrating on ATOM (should be a small effort though as I only have to add a new template file). I'm undecided whether RSS1 would be desirable or can be dropped in favour of RSS2.
• One major problem is access to private forums. The problem here is that the feed reader is in need of a own session id and needs to store phpBB's cookie in order to authenticate against phpBB. I'm not yet sure how to solve this but I'll think about it .
  
  Edit: Just had an idea which seams reasonable. I'll try to include this feature in the next version .

Please let me know what you think about this MOD, possible features you would like to see, and of course any errors you experience.
I hope I didn't forget anything in the installation file .

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[hurry]

Errors:
I did everything right. Except that there is a duplicate change in the first and third in the includes/acp/acp_forums.php.

[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 299: Undefined index: enable_syndication
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 300: Undefined index: enable_syndication
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 156: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3264)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 158: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3264)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 159: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3264)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /adm/index.php on line 160: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3264)

Please help.

[hurry]

When I tried to activate syndication I got:

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Duplicate entry 'enable_syndication' for key 1 [1062]

SQL

INSERT INTO phpbb_config (config_name, config_value, is_dynamic) VALUES ('enable_syndication', 1, 0)

BACKTRACE

FILE: includes/db/mysql.php
LINE: 132
CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_error()

FILE: includes/functions.php
LINE: 132
CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_query()

FILE: includes/acp/acp_board.php
LINE: 394
CALL: set_config()

FILE: includes/functions_module.php
LINE: 460
CALL: acp_board->main()

FILE: adm/index.php
LINE: 83
CALL: p_master->load_active()

[hurry]

When I load http://mysite.com/generate_feed.php in the brwoser after installation, I get the error: This script has been called incorrectly. How do I use this mod?

[Highway of Life]

Hmm... try clearing your cache directory (all files except for .htaccess).

You have already installed it, so that?s why you got the duplicate entry for the config table.

[hurry]

Ok I cleared it. No errors now. I don't what to do now or how to use it. I switched on Topics and Forums syndication in the Board Features. I can't see any other settings anywhere. Where is my RSS feed and how to use it? I tried the forums and topic pages but could not see anything. Thanks.

[Tuk]

The feeds are not displayed within the forum. There is no link to it displayed directly in the template.
Instead, you should see a icon in your browser showing that there is a feed present on index.php, viewforum.php and viewtopic.php. See the screenshot I attached.

It quite easy to check whether this is a problem with the MOD or your browser. When you go to http://www.phpbb.com/community/, can you see such an icon in your browser?

I'll add an instruction to clear the cache after installation, this will solve the problem to experienced.

Edit: You may also have to manually delete "cache/tpl_prosilver_overall_header.html.php", depending on you board's configuration.

[hurry]

Ok, when I click the browser icon, it gives me this error:

Code: Select all

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://mysite.com/generate_feed.php?mode=global_posts&sub=1
Line Number 1, Column 1:
^

Message

XML Parsing error: syntax error
Explanation

Your feed is not well formed according to the XML specification. All feeds should be well-formed XML.


and does not show the feeds.

(1) Does it show the full text of the posts? I want it to show the full post text with the bbcode?
(2) Can we exclude specific forum(s) from the full forum post and topic RSS feed?
(3) How do we change the number of items in the RSS feed?
(4) Does it parse custom bbcodes?
(5) And lastly, please help me with the above error. I don't know where that ^ character actually is. Thanks.