Feed Discussions, Change User Feeds are posted from?

carsenk

Hello,

I would like to change the current user poster of the feeds from "System" to a different user...Maybe add this in a future release to be able to change it by USERID or?

Anyway to do this in the code? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks! Running latest version of the plugin on Vanilla 2.1

Also I noticed it is not posting links to the rest of the feeds source? Can this be added as well?

vrijvlinder

I use a modified version of Magpie feeds that I made work for my use. it is based on Feed Discussions ...

you can change the user ID in the plugin. Also the category with the mods I made with help from peregrine. It is not perfect but fills up the joint with content .

carsenk

Link please? Sounds awesome! I would gladly install it...

vrijvlinder

well it is in the add ons section but as I said I had to modify it to work because it is a pre 2.1 plugin. You can download it and see the tutorial about updating an old plugin to work with 2.1 and I can give you the parts I added. I would upload the zip but they have disabled that here..

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/magpiefeeds-plugin

carsenk

Shoot me over an email with it to admin(at)coinboards.org :P You would save me a lot of time! Thanks!

vrijvlinder

I sent you a copy hope it work for you

the trick is to find a feed or use feed burner to add a good one with lots of content and pics.

You can create a specific user to post these or use the System bot. Which you can change the name of it too.

tomassiro

@vrijvlinder said:
I sent you a copy hope it work for you

Can I have a copy too please? rconserta(a)gmail

It would be great if you could post it somewhere to let people download. I'm sure a lot of people on here would be really grateful. Thank you.

DenisS

Changing user ID where what files and how do you do this?
I see this in: plugins/FeedDiscussions/class.feeddiscussions.plugin.php, as i understand this it means open an account called Minion ?

// Post as Minion (if one exists) or the system user
if (Gdn::PluginManager()->CheckPlugin('Minion')) {
$Minion = Gdn::PluginManager()->GetPluginInstance('MinionPlugin');
$InsertUserID = $Minion->GetMinionUserID();

Bleistivt

No, this is only in case you have the minion plugin installed.

To change the user ID, you would just change it in the else-part right after what you posted:

 $InsertUserID = 7;

DenisS

Bleistivt Thanks I wait until it updates, to see it work.
Another couple of questions:
1: This only takes the feed Title no content ?
eg: Police lose two prisoners being transported to Pattaya Court:
From my feedreader 3.14 which i use to get article links and post them.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PattayaOneNews/~3/4iKpUVNwF9c/
How could you get a live clickable link? Or is this way down the line?
2: I'm also using http://feed.mikle.com/ in Pockets, which is ok, I doing this to try and turn from a Full forum to a news forum with comments.

See it here: http://isaan-expatsforum.services-thai.com/discussions

Thanks again.

Bleistivt

Yes, if the feed itself contains content.

I guess that is your feed?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PattayaOneNews?format=xml

The summary should be pulled into the discussion post.
I'd just wait to see if the update to (2.1 hopefully) will fix that.

You are using Vanilla 2.0.18.8 which has known security issues, update as soon as possible.

DenisS

Yes The user ID works great, thanks. If the summary ( Title ) is pulled into the discussion with the " link " that would very good, as will enable members to read the full info not just a snippet. Also graphics would be a bonus. Is there a restriction on the amount of text it brings in? If so can that be altered? I think this is one of the best app's for me on vanilla. great work. I did upgrade a while ago but had so many problems I backdated. Maybe i'll try again when i have a day or so to spare.

alishachris

HELLO,

how do i get feeddiscussions to actually add feeds to discussion? i tried but nothing is displaying.