XML / RSS feeds 1

[Hondy]

Hi

Knowing nothing about feeds really I wanted to know if there's any simple way of displaying data from a website that has an xml feed without installing anything on the server? (i.e. the web page on my site should read the feed and display the information)

e.g. this data...

http://www.almanac.com/rss/moon.php

Anyone help?

Thanks

 

[Foamcow]

Well, you can do it by copying a few files to your server. It's not really "installing" per se.

If you can use PHP scripts you can use CARP or Magpie.
These consist of a PHP script that you copy to the server.
You then add a few lines of code into your pages that define where the feed is coming from and calls the CARP or Magpie parser.

It's pretty easy to do.
I started using CARP but recently moved to Magpie as I found CARP wasn't parsing some feeds correctly.

Incidentally both CARP and Magpie are free.

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[Hondy]

Thanks foamcow, have a star!