Adding an RSS feed to a website 1

[TobyA]

Hi,

A client wants to add an RSS feed to his website. I've been doing some research on the Internet and now I'm just more confused :-(

From what I gather you need to use some server-side technology to parse the feed to the browser as HTML. We host the website using IIS, so we can use ASP if necessary.

The feed they want to add is here -

http://www.lloydslist.com/content/rss/lloydslist/breaking_news.xml

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Toby

 

[Foamcow]

I assume you mean you want to display a feed from another site on your site? Rather than publish your own feed?

In that case you are correct, you need to grab the feed (which is just an xml file) and then parse it into HTML.

Since the feed is XML you could possibly transform it using XSLT but if you want to display it on your site then a script to parse the file is what you need.


Might I suggest Googling for rss parser asp. You'll find loads of ready made scripts out there to help you.

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[TobyA]

Hi Foamcow.

You're right, I want to display the feed from Lloyds list.

That's just what I was looking for - I did a google search and the top result was:-

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/rss.html

Looks perfect for what I want

Thanks a lot,
Toby

 

[Foamcow]

Is that a Javascript?
I'd advise on using a server side script if at all possible.

<honk>*:O)</honk>

Tyres: Mine's a pint of the black stuff.
Mike: You can't drink a pint of Bovril.

 

[TobyA]

It uses Javascript and ASP by the look of things.

In fact it says it will not work if Javascript is disabled.

Back to Google then I guess...

 

[TobyA]

I found this site....

http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/rss/rss_content_feed_class.htm

... however I'm not overly clear what I'm doing with it!

I'll have a play and see how I get on.

 

[TobyA]

I managed to get this working locally (sort of)...

However, when I put this page on our web server I get an error message:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/index.asp

The file I am using is here:-

http://www.ubsigroup.com/testing/rss_content_feed_class.1.txt

Thanks again for your help.

 

[Vragabond]

You should continue your quest in the forum333. They will be of more help with asp errors.