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AboutToday - Bring RSS Feeds and Daily Events to Your Site!
Developer Last Online: Dec 2014 
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What is AboutToday?
AboutToday provides a central place to bring daily items of interest to your forum visitors. It includes two main components: an RSS Reader System and Local Events database System. Please NOTE: This mod has been modified for vb ver 3.6.4. It should work on vb ver 3.5.4 and 3.6.x. 
Installation Copy the following files to your server in the forums directory: abouttoday.phpFrom the admincp, import the product file product-abouttoday.xml (Manage Products - Add/Import Product). REFRESH your admincp window. You should now see a listing in the left column of the admincp for "AboutToday". Getting Started NOTE - if this is a new install, a Yahoo RSS Feed and CNN Entertainment Feed have been automatically added to give you a feel for how the product looks. If you plan to use the RSS Feeds: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - RSS Feeds. Add an RSS Feed. 2. From the admincp, select Usergroups - Usergroup Manager. Add permissions so the Administrator group can use the product. 3. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. 4. If you want the feeds to AUTOMATICALLY create threads, go to admincp - abouttoday - settings. There you must set the userid of the account to use to create the thread. Then, edit the RSS Feed with the forumid of where the threads for that feed should be created! If you plan to create your own "today in history" type of database: 1. From the admincp, select AboutToday - Categories. Add a category. 2. From your forum directory, bring up the file abouttoday.php. "Add" your first event to the category you have created! Version Status I've tested this product extensively but ... use this totally at your own risk! Credits I learned a lot about how to code this and used a lot of the code from what Ron1n did with ecDownloads. What I've learned from his code while helping to support ecDownloads has been invaluable. Sites Using this Product Visit www.armchairgeneral.com to see this product in action. Click Install! Please Click Install if you are using this product. Thanks! Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Addons Screenshots
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06 Feb 2006, 20:26
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Version 2.0.5 added Aug 2, 2006
Version 2.0.4 added Jul 21, 2006
Version 2.0.3 added Jul 11, 2006
Version 2.0.2 added Jun 16, 2006
Version 2.0.1 added May 20, 2006 Fixed bug that was causing duplicate threads to be created Version 2.0 added May 19, 2006 The biggest change in this release is the ability to have RSS Feeds AUTOMATICALLY create threads! Version 1.3.1 Gold added Mar 20, 2006 This release fixes a problem with the interaction between this product and the left sidebar product. If the left sidebar product was installed before AboutToday was, the $myfeeds variables would not be available for the left column. I've changed when $myfeeds get evaluated so they are always before the left column. If you already have this product installed, you only need to import the new product-abouttoday.xml for the change to take effect. If you do not use the $myfeeds variables, you really don't need to worry about this update. Version 1.3 Gold added Mar 3, 2006 Sorry folks! I messed up two items when doing the update - one minor, one critical. It is imperative that you install ver 1.3 or you won't be able to add new feeds! Version 1.2 Gold added Mar 3, 2006 Be sure to do "Force RSS Update" after if you are upgrading! That will give you the newest look! I'm VERY excited about this release! I think the new options for displaying the RSS Feeds plus the addition of two more global feed variable for displaying the feeds on vba (or where ever global.php is called) really make this product even more exciting!
Version 1.1 Gold added Feb 18, 2006
Frequently Asked Questions 1. How can I display the RSS Feeds on a sidebar? If set "How many rows across for $myfeeds variable?" to a value greater than zero, a variable called $myfeeds will become available. Place this where you want the feeds to appear. Check out the attached example of the feeds displayed in the left sidebar.2 How do you go about forcing the rss update....i dont see it anywhere? Once you install the ver 1.1, you will need to go into the usergroup permissions, giving the admin group permission to force an update. Then, that option will appear with the others when viewing abouttoday.php.
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Last edited by CyberRanger; 02 Aug 2006 at 16:36. 
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06 Feb 2006, 20:38
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Nice hack you got there. I look forward to see what will become of this
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06 Feb 2006, 20:47
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I dont have a site where this would fit well... but very nice hack....
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06 Feb 2006, 20:49
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Nice concept. Are you going to provide links for relevent rss feeds also?
I honestly can't see myself inputting all of this data myself either. Are there databases that one can find or purchase, that will work with this?
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Last edited by docvader; 06 Feb 2006 at 20:58.
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06 Feb 2006, 20:58
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Originally Posted by docvader
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean provide a list of suggested RSS Feeds for admins or have the product come with some feeds already setup?
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06 Feb 2006, 21:00
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Well, if you think about it, this is an awesome concept, but, the act of sitting down for the next few years, typing in historical events for every day of the calender year, is not exactly going to make me popular with the ladies.
Are there preconfigured databases that we could import? Or, rss feeds with this "today in history" stuff that we can bring into your hack?? It's an awesome concept, exactly what I've been looking for.
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06 Feb 2006, 21:09
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I aggree with what your saying, but aint this what the RSS feed will do?
Originally Posted by docvader
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06 Feb 2006, 21:31
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I have installed this....
It wont save the description though....... I fill in all the details, including a description... Add Event and it deletes the descriptin and says Fields marked in RED must be filled in! and the descriptin is in red...of course cause its frigging deleted it lol... Also the catergories in the catergoy tree aint clickable??? Whats ya thoughts please....... No members have liked this post.
Last edited by bashy; 06 Feb 2006 at 21:52.
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06 Feb 2006, 23:45
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If I am looking at this correctly, this is a sweet idea.
RSS Feeds are good for boards, but never cared for them fillingup forums with 100 posts a day, ect.. This just simply puts the feeds, and organized nicely, on a seperate page. So if members want to check it outk the can, otherwise they are not bothered. Very nice..Will be putting this on my site. Kudos! No members have liked this post.
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06 Feb 2006, 23:54
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Originally Posted by bashy
I can't check the description problem right now but will as soon as possible.
The categories in the tree become clickable if that category has events in it ... which, with your problem above, explains why you haven't seen one clickable yet. :classic:
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07 Feb 2006, 00:23
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Yea, have same issue. Everything else seems to work just fine tho. No members have liked this post.
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07 Feb 2006, 04:25
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Originally Posted by bashy
Can you load the attached xml file to replace the existing product and let me know if that fixes the problem?
Also, if you use Firefox, do you have the problem? Thanks!
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07 Feb 2006, 04:38
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Can you make it wprk with vBAdvanced CMS?
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07 Feb 2006, 04:40
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Originally Posted by bashy
westpointer, did you use $vbulletin->clean-> gpc for this item?
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