RSS Feed Poster

[vbgamer45]

Images are in the "content" field? and this mod use "description"?

That's what I think it is doing will need to do more tests but seems like it is using description over content:encoded

[vbgamer45]

Okay so it pulls from the latest page of the RSS, which seems to be 10 entries for most sites, so when you only select to update 5 at a time, it starts from the 10th and works upwards. That's why it's not starting from the most recent posts. Figured that one out.

But two other issues, which I see others have had:

Using this feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mzptv you can see the feed has images and full post (instead of excerpt), but the feed poster posts this:



Why isn't it showing the images and the full post? And why doesn't it like line breaks?

Added support for content:encoded in the latest release. That should fix your issue.

[JTVaughn]

Almost works. The full post showed up instead of excerpt, so that's great. And the formatting is in tact.

Problem is the images do not load. Seems to be too many tags or something.

Here's what code is generated for the image:

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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18047" src="[img]http://www.mzp-tv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/empire3.jpg[/img]" alt="Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back" width="475" height="150" /></p><br />

[JTVaughn]

Oh, I had to turn OFF the "Autoembed images from RSS Feeds" setting, and now images work fine.

All looks good Only thing it's not doing is centre aligning the images like it does the text

[vbgamer45]

Ah good to know so that setting gets in the way of html someetimes

[JTVaughn]

Realised the problem with centre aligned images was with my feed, not the mod. Got it working now.

Last thing now, I think

The feed poster is posting both the short excerpt AND the full post from Wordpress RSS. The excerpt isn't in the RSS feed, so I don't know where it's scraping it from. Is there something in the code that's grabbing BOTH excerpt and full post, instead of either/or?

You also need an extra space after the topic prefix.

Also, is there a way to take the current topic title when posting in a current topic?

[luuuciano]

It would be nice an option in rss setup to select which one will use.... excerpt or full content

:-D

[SMFHacks.com Team]

It would be nice an option in rss setup to select which one will use.... excerpt or full content

:-D

4.2.1
+Added setting to either use the feed description or the content tag

[JTVaughn]

One little formatting thing. The posts have all got double line spacing. So instead of

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Line 1

Line 2

Line 3


It gets turned into

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Line 1


Line 2


Line 3



This is because extra <br> tags are added between closing and opening <p> tags, like this:

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</p><br /><p>

Is there a way to stop these <br>'s? Is it in your code, or a problem with how SMF formats it?

[JTVaughn]

Ignore the above, solved in another thread 

It was said before a few years ago that there was no way to approve posts before they went live on the forums, is this still true? I tried with an account on post moderation but the post went right through.

[margarett]

Ignore the above, solved in another thread 

For reference: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=539863.0
(might become handy for anyone else)

About approval, it's just a matter of adding

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'approved' => 0,

To $msgOptions, before the call to createTopic (or is it createPost? )

[JTVaughn]

Ignore the above, solved in another thread 

For reference: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=539863.0
(might become handy for anyone else)

About approval, it's just a matter of adding

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'approved' => 0,

To $msgOptions, before the call to createTopic (or is it createPost? )

Brilliant, works perfectly, thanks

[JTVaughn]

Seeing as we're on fire now, I have another request Probably for margarett, though anyone else can jump in.

When using the "Topic ID (Optional used to add feed to existing topic)" option, is it possible to have the feed poster use the current topic ID title too, instead of using the feed post's title in its place? So for instance, if it were posting in this topic, it would use the current "Re: RSS Feed Poster" title.

[margarett]

Possible, yes for sure, everything (?) can be coded

Disclaimer: not looking at the code so I might be talking trash.
There should be a query already to determine if the topic exists before posting it. If not, it should
Either with the existing query or with a new one, it "just" needs to get the topic subject (by JOINing the messages table using the id_first_msg - again, if not already existing), append the default "Re:" prefix and stuff it in the post subject.

[JTVaughn]

vbgamer will know better, but the only thing I can see in subs-RSS2 is:

$msgOptions = array(
'subject' => $feed['topicprefix'] . $msg_title,

I assume that's saying to make the subject of the post the title of the RSS post, with an optional topic prefix selected in the mod settings, nothing more complicated than that.

[vbgamer45]

You would use $row['id_topic']  in your subject line to include the topic id in your case.

[JTVaughn]

How/where do I add that in? tried replacing $msg_title with it, but that just ends up with (No Subject) for the post

[margarett]

@vbgamer, he wants to use the topic *subject*, not ID. So if you don't get the $row['subject'], the query itself needs to be edited

* margarett should really get the code in front

[JTVaughn]

No more ideas?

[JTVaughn]

Let's put that one on the backburner for the moment.

The next issue I'm seeing is with Wordpress feeds.

The feed poster is grabbing and displaying both the description and the content when posting on the forum, in any scenario. I think this is because Wordpress uses different names for both so that the Wordpress blog owner can set which to use for RSS feeds.

<description><![CDATA[This is the short excerpt version that is a truncated version of the full post]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the full post blah blah blah]]></content:encoded>

When you feed this through feedburner, and then check the source, you can see the <description> is green, like it's been commented out, and it wont be included. Which is correct. So the feedburner version of the Wordpress RSS displays correctly, but when you grab this using the SMF feed poster, it displays both everything in the <description> AND <content:encoded> tags.

However, with most other blogs/news sites, their RSS only uses one or the other. So you view the source, and everything is in <description> tags, or everything is in <content:encoded> tags, rather than both being in the source.

What's needed is for the feed poster to be aware of both <description> and <content:encoded> being in the source, and knowing when to only grab one or the other, instead of both.

As always, appreciate the help!