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I did a quick search, and didnt see that anyone really suggested something like this yet...
Has anyone thought of creating a news aggregation 'bot' for Snitz Forums? It would go out to entered RSS feeds, download content, and post each new entry into the forum. Vbullitin already has something like this - called the RSS News Feed Hack. (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63798)<
Has anyone thought of creating a news aggregation 'bot' for Snitz Forums? It would go out to entered RSS feeds, download content, and post each new entry into the forum. Vbullitin already has something like this - called the RSS News Feed Hack. (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63798)<
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Ah...ok. Now I understand.
Sounds a bit dangerous to me ; auto-importing content from an external source into the db.
I think my code cán be modified to do just that ; it already has the items, so with a INSERT statement one could achieve a lot.
Too dangerous for me though, so I won't be testing it!
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Too dangerous for me though, so I won't be testing it!
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As long as you import content from well-known, trusted sites (BBC, Microsoft) it shouldn't really be a security risk, should it?<
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Well, even though the chance that the risk will become reality is little, I'd like to keep it safe. Just as with safe sex, you can never be too carefull 
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Haven't checked it out yet because you need to register but I wonder if this MaxWebPortal MOD would be any good?<
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sounds promising....MWP isn't bad as far as I know, so I guess the mods will be of the same 'level'.<
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Originally posted by HuwRIs it just me or does this seem a little bassackwards?
..he wants the individual items in the feeds to be created as topics in the forum
Spewing forum content out on RSS is a wonderful thing. Sucking it into a forum seems redundant. I mean what is the point?
If you're trying to provide more content for your forum visitors why not just provide newsfeed links? Or display them in the header or footer of you forum with one of these scripts.<
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