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hvorragend edited this page Sep 1, 2011 · 1 revision

RSS2Forum

RSS2Forum is similar to Mail2Forum and mirrors RSS feeds into forums. Usually this is done with a cronjob.

Configuration

Base Configuration ('Forum wide options'): Toggle RSS2Forum on or off globally.

Preperations

The RSS module has to initialized and activated. All feeds you want to use in Dizkus have to defined here and will be offered in the forum admin panel for selection.

Configuration per forum

External source: Select Mail2Forum or RSS2Forum here, more configuration options after saving. Zikula-username: Zikuka-password: User name and password of the Zikula-user who shall be used as posting user in the forum Select RSS-Feed: Select one of the feeds defined in the RSS module.

Usage

Feeds will be fetched using the rss2dizkus.php script which usually gets called by a cron job e.g. once per hour. Before you can use this you have to do some changes to this file:

Zeile 38: //
Zeile 39: // store the absolut path to your Zikula folder here
Zeile 40: chdir('/opt/lampp/htdocs/760');

There are no changes necessary beyond this point.

Manual usage

http://www.example.com/modules/Dizkus/rss2dizkus.php

Gets the new RSS entries for all forums that are configured for RSS2Forum.

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