Rss?

[SidekickWD]

*grumbles* stupid header....can't seem to change it.

[SidekickWD]

OKay, I'm feeling very very stupid right now. But I cannot figure this out. I need to the the info from here to display on his website on a daily basis. I have been messing with the SpringWidgets and I really don't know if this is what I need or not.

Am I way off?

[Toon]

This is mine I just built, but there's alot of stories about design, Private Investigator is very limited, thus the feed will be empty most of the time. Try and find am actual private investigator feed it may help

Get this widget!

[skunkbad]

Originally Posted by SidekickWD

I'm probably not calling it by the right name, or something, but what I need for a clients site seems simple and I cannot figure it out.

I need to create a way for news feeds from other sources to automatically load onto my clients page and refresh every day.

I've seen it on other websites, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any help out there?

~B

If you know a little php, you can make your own, which is usually customized depending on the XML or RDF that is being fed. An RSS feed is nothing but XML, and XML is easily parsed and output using php's built in SimpleXML class, or if you don't have php5, there are many classes to parse XML in php4.

For instance, here is some code I came up with that imports a daily bible verse from an RSS feed:

PHP Code:

                print("<div class='greenbox-top'></div>
                    <div class='greenbox-bg'>
                    <h2>Verse Of The Day</h2>");
                        $feed = simplexml_load_file('http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/votd/rss/votd.rdf?9');
                        $namespaces = $feed->getNamespaces(true);
                        $content = $feed->channel->item->children($namespaces['content']);
                        $verse = $feed->channel->item->title;
                        echo ("<p>".$verse."".str_ireplace('<br/><br/> Brought to you by <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com">BibleGateway.com</a>. Copyright (C) KJV. All Rights Reserved.','',$content->encoded)."</p>");
                    print("</div>
                <div class='greenbox-bottom'></div>");