Vbulletin/Rssposter.php Need it to run without Cronimage,

[lukescotty]

Hiya

I've been at this for days, posting on vbulletin.org & vbulletin.com trying to get a resolution, but theres no joy.

Heres what I'm after
On vbulletin, I have a rssposter which pulls rss feeds and automatically posts them as a thread. This is brilliant but it only runs the task when a user enters the forum and triggers the cronimage file. I want it to run without the need of a user to trigger it. I would like it to run say every 30min indefinite.

So i've set up a cron job on my server, to run this cron file, which runs the rssposter, but it still doesn't work. I don't know whether its the cron coding, or my server messing things up. Heres the code:

 // ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
 error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
 ignore_user_abort(1);
 @set_time_limit(0);

 // #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
 define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);
 define('NOCOOKIES', 1);
 define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'cron');
 define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);

 // #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
 // get special phrase groups
 $phrasegroups = array();

 // get special data templates from the datastore
 $specialtemplates = array();

 // pre-cache templates used by all actions
 $globaltemplates = array();

 // pre-cache templates used by specific actions
 $actiontemplates = array();

 // ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
 require_once('./global.php');
 require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_cron.php');

 // #######################################################################
 // ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
 // #######################################################################
 $filedata = vb_base64_decode('R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==');
 $filesize = strlen($filedata);

 // browser will think there is no more data if content-length is what is returned
 // regardless of how long the script continues to execute, apart from IIS + CGI

 header('Content-type: image/gif');

 if (!(strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false AND strpos(SAPI_NAME, 'cgi') !== false))
 {
 header('Content-Length: ' . $filesize);
 header('Connection: Close');
 }

 if (!$vbulletin->options['crontab'])
 {
 echo $filedata;
 flush();
 }

 ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('cron_start')) ? eval($hook) : false;

 exec_cron(17);
 $db->close();
 }
 } 

If anyone could help me out, i would much appreciate it. Or if anyone else could give me a solution to the task I want to create. I would be most greatful

Thanks for reading

Lukescotty

[PeejAvery]

If it works when the user triggers it through loading a file, but not through the cron job then there are only 2 possible reasons...

• User privileges in the cron job
• Incorrect cron job setup