RSS feeds and/or threads as vba dynamics articles

[deathemperor]

How do I add feeds like news feed to be posted as articles into categories ? if that is even possible.

If it can't post feeds then would it be possible to prune/read threads from specific forums in to specific categories respectively ?

Please guide me if there is such way.

Thanks.

[Brian]

So you're trying to get feeds from another site posted as articles, right? If that's correct, I'm sorry, but there are not any default options for something like that at this time.

[deathemperor]

I'm actually trying to feed news but I guess that doesn't change anything.

How about fetching thread content (in vb forum) into articles ?

[Brian]

I do have an import script for vB threads, but it still needs to be updated for use with v1.0. That is more of a one time thing though.
I am also working on a hack that some others have requested that will allow you to enter the URL to a thread in one of your custom fields. It will then pull the posts from the thread specified and display them with the entry. I should also be able to work something in so that it automatically creates a thread in a specified forum when submitting a new entry.
Would either one of those work for you?

[Lionel]

I am curious to see the insert statement in your importer so i could use it in a product under showthread.php thread tool to insert that thread into dynamics

[Brian]

The one to import vB forums still needs to be updated, but I do have one for vBlogetin that is current. Here's the relevant bits of code from that one.

$entryinsert .= "(
$entry[entryid],
'" . $db->escape_string($entry['title']) . "',
$entry[categoryid],
$entry[userid],
'" . $db->escape_string($entry['username']) . "',
$entry[dateline],
$entry[hits],
$entry[iconid],
$entry[sticky],
$entry[visible],
1,
$entry[timesrated],
$entry[votetotal],
'" . $db->escape_string($entry['ipaddress']) . "'
),";

$entrytextinsert .= "(
$entry[entryid],
'" . $db->escape_string($entry['title']) . "',
'" . $db->escape_string($entry['body']) . "',
1,
1
),";
}

$db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . ADV_DYNA_PREFIX . "_entries (entryid, title, catid, userid, username, dateline, views, iconid, sticky, valid, open, votenum, votetotal, ipaddress) VALUES " . substr($entryinsert, 0, (strlen($entryinsert) - 1)));

$db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . ADV_DYNA_PREFIX . "_entries_pages (entryid, title, pagetext, pagenumber, allowsmilie) VALUES " . substr($entrytextinsert, 0, (strlen($entrytextinsert) - 1)));

[deathemperor]

I do have an import script for vB threads, but it still needs to be updated for use with v1.0. That is more of a one time thing though.
I am also working on a hack that some others have requested that will allow you to enter the URL to a thread in one of your custom fields. It will then pull the posts from the thread specified and display them with the entry. I should also be able to work something in so that it automatically creates a thread in a specified forum when submitting a new entry.
Would either one of those work for you?

To be more clear: I want to add news feed into articles. Because yours does not support feed posting so I wish to do it via threads because vbulletin can do the feed very well.

I'll tell you what I'm trying to do too: I want to create a page like news.google.com. I can either do this with vbadvanced cmps or vbadvanced dynamics. Since vbadvanced dynamics support categorying, it's easier to catagorize news.