Suggesting RSS Feed Poster to post news items as topics in Fireboard forum.
Simple Machine Forum has one here: custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=624

RSS Feed Poster description from SMF:

Allows you to add RSS Feed Posting Bots to your forum.
You can either use a real cron job
Using the following file
www.yourforums.com/cronrss.php

Or you can run fake cron jobs via php

Allows multiple posting bots
Set Poster Name Or Member Id for the bot
Topic Prefix option
Option to lock topics
Option to enable/disable html in the feed post
Set the update time in minutes
Set how many items to get from the feed
Choose the forum for the feeds.
No duplicate posts. Posts are hashed and stored as a hash.

Requires fsockopen php function to be enabled

I believe the use of a component such as Feed Gator will be able to import items into news articles, it would then be a simple use of the Discuss Bot to convert these to posts.

Thank you, Axis. I think that would work.

Say 4 RSS news feeds (top stories, movies, TV, & scandal)
Say 10 stories each feed.
Say import feeds once per day
= 40 edits per day to place discussbot code below stories.
I was hoping for a more automated process.

RSS feeders which post articles into forum topics are very active threads at SMF and vBulletin.

I would make a $ donation towards this development.
Anyone else interested?

I don't know if this will help or not. I know what you're asking for, and I love the idea of it. But right now FeedGator is all that we have that is close to being able to do what we want:

In FeedGator I've gone in and changed my settings to add the discuss bot into the forum category I want the posts to link to automatically:

In Feedgator / Configuration / Content Tab /

Show Trackback Link: Yes
Verbose Trackback Link: No
Trackback Link Text:

I have entered:

[code:1]

Read more...

{mos_fb_discuss:«»XX}

[/code:1]

[b]NOTE:[/b] Substitute the XX with the number of the category of your Fireboard forum that you want the discussions to take place.

If you use FeedGator to auto-publish (either to your front page or just to your content category) all you have to do after importing the feeds is click into each article, click the discuss link, copy and paste part of the original article text and add "whaddaya think?" after it. I know that isn't totally automated, but that's all I can help with right now.

As an aside, FeedGator is undergoing some re-development and being re-born as Syndigator. You can follow its progress [b][url=http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/syndigator]here[/url][/b] and possibly even get the new developer to take an interest in making a Fireboard version of the new SyndiGator component.

:)

Post edited by: schelly, at: 2007/05/08 00:00

Do you have an example of this on a working site? Sounds interesting.

I do, but it isn't a FB site... it's still on SB. The concept is identical though. It's right here. You'll also note that I have added an additional little goody after the discussbot. I put a "tagbot" called Faves into an unused module and then called that module in using to display it.

So my entire code string looks like this:

[code:1]

Read more...

{mos_fb_discuss:«»XX}

[/code:1]

Hope that helps!
:silly:

Cool! I never knew you could put HTML in that field of FeedGator! Learn something new every day. Thanks for the demo site. Makes it easier for me to visualize how I would use this. I will have to do some playing around.

Some images from RSS Feed Poster at SMF forum

Control Panel
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Resulting Post in Forum


Post edited by: pintobuck, at: 2007/05/12 18:18

Schelly, thank you.

I went to your "here" and found the RSS news story posted in a page on your site.

Very pretty RSS display. May I ask what display module you are using, or did you custom code the display?

When I clicked on "Discuss this article on the forums" it opened a new window that went into a continuous reload loop and just blinked at me.

regards,
pinto

P.S. I did submit a feature request to SyndiGator.

Post edited by: pintobuck, at: 2007/05/12 18:32