RSS feed in web page 1

[Guthro]

Hi all.
I'm pulling my hair out with RSS feeds.
I've searched all over and tried all sorts.

Can the lucid help from tek tips help me ?
Using the line below and adding a real path, why doesn't it show ?
Am I being really dim here ? Yes, probably !

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="path_to/feed.xml">



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[BabyJeffy]

Your syntax is fine - it could be that your feed is not valid (at the path you specify in the href attribute).

Try using Firefox to see if the icon shows.

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[Guthro]

Do I need anything else or is that enough to display the feed onscreen ?

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

That line by itself will not display the feed. The feed will be shown when you view it in a suitable reader.

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[Foamcow]

What is the exact line of code you are using?
i.e. What is the URL of your site/feed?

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[Guthro]

The BBC have many free news feeds you can use.
Naively I was using one from there such as the one below.

http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml

I have used a standalone rss reader on my desktop but the idea was to have a window or table showing the feed for visitors to my portal and/or forum.



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[Foamcow]

Can you clarify what it is you are trying to do?

Are you trying to show a feed from another site on your site?

Or are you trying to publish a feed containing content from your site?

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[Guthro]

Primarily offering news from an outside source such as the BBC.
From my own sites would be nice but I'd like to get the basic working first.
Or is it easier to start with my own content ?

Thanks for showing patience.

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[Foamcow]

It's much of a much.

Both will require some kind of scripting.

To display a feed on your site you need to grab the XML, parse it then output it to your page.

What scripting language(s) do you have available?

There used to be a thing called MagPie for doing this with PHP and it was quite easy to configure. Don't know if it's still around though.

The line of code you gave would be used for creating feed on your site. The URL would point to a script that generates the required XML file from, for example, a database of content. This is quite easy to do if you know how to get content from a database. Just look up "RSS format" or similar in Google.

You can probably find pre-made scripts to create the XML for you too.





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[Guthro]

My site can use php, javascript, asp. Most types I believe.

The forum can use javascript in its headers.
I can also embed flash in the forum.



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[Foamcow]

Your options are open then.

I would steer clear of using Flash since it would require some kind of server side script to actually get the data anyway (I believe, long time since I used it).

Here's a link to Magpie

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

Though I'm guessing because you support ASP your server is Windows based and so you may be better looking for an ASP specific solution.

The principle is the same though.

Grab the XML file from the remote URL and parse the XML in some way to output HTML.

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[Foamcow]

Try these Google results to get you started.

[google]PHP RSS parser[/google]
[google]ASP RSS parser[/google]

Forget Javascript, bad solution. Though by all means use Javascript to 'jazz up' the display of the feed by scrolling, fading etc.

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[Guthro]

Thanks a lot.
The rss mist might be clearing at last.


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[BigRed1212]

Javascript may be considered a "bad solution", but I use this and find it painless:

http://feed2js.org/index.php?s=build

 

[Foamcow]

Javascript may be considered a "bad solution", but I use this and find it painless:

The only reason it's "bad" is that you are doing the processing client side. Putting load on the user's browser etc. and also not getting any seo benefit from including the feed on your site.

Maybe "bad" is the wrong word, it ust feels wrong to me.

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