VBSyndicate Hack V1

[Dave#]

Synopsis

This hack allows webmaster to provide syndicated VB content to other webmasters such as Latest topics, Latest Polls or calendar entries to other webmasters for inclusion on their websites. The webmasters using the feeds do NOT need PHP, PERL, MYSQL, ASP just a javascript enabled browser.

Requirements

* Crontab
* The ability to run PHP via the command line

Example

http://cpfc.org/news/newsfeed.html

Please note the documentation is sketchy and if your aren't savvy with hacking code yourself then maybe you should wait until the documentation is up to speed.

[Dave#]

don't use the txt file

use this

[Steve Machol]

This looks really interesting Dave. I'm looking forward to trying this out. Good job!

[Steve Machol]

I'm doing something wrong. I get these errors when trying to run activefeed.php from the command line:

./activefeed.php: ?: No such file or directory
./activefeed.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `require("/home/smachol/www/forums/admin/config.php")'
./activefeed.php: line 2: `require("/home/smachol/www/forums/admin/config.php");'

[Dave#]

Steve when executing your php file from the command line (telnet/SSH) you must specify the location of php binary

Ie for me

/usr/local/php/bin/php -q /path/to/php/file

[Scott MacVicar]

if you can't get that to work you can do the following

/usr/bin/lynx -dump http://url.com/to/script.php

[chrispadfield]

Dave this is very cool. Looking forward to play with it.

[DarkReaper]

Schleet

[Steve Machol]

Invoking it with the path to php gives me this error now:

bash:~/www/forums$ /usr/bin/php -q activefeed.php
<br>
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined function:  mysql_connect() in <b>activefeed.php</b> on line <
b>7</b><br>

Line 7 contains:

mysql_select_db($dbname);

[mcncyo]

you might need to add

#!/usr/local/bin/php at the top of your file. If you are running php as cgi mode.

[Steve Machol]

Nope, I'm not running PHP in cgi-mode. Any other ideas? I really want to get this one working.

[Dave#]

Originally posted by smachol
Nope, I'm not running PHP in cgi-mode. Any other ideas? I really want to get this one working.

your on linux?

try

locate php|more

search through until you find a binary rather than a directory

[Steve Machol]

Dave,

/usr/bin/php is the binary.

bash:/usr/bin$ ls -al ph*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1066892 Mar 3 2001 php

[Dave#]

Steve:

1) Can you run any php scripts via the command line?
2) Is your path to config.php correct?

[Steve Machol]

1. Apparently not. I tried with a couple of other scripts and got the same error. How do I get around this?

2. Yes, otherwise my forums would cease to function.

Thanks!