[thelist] Displaying RSS Feeds on my site

[Max Schwanekamp]

Rich Points wrote:
 > I've found a bunch of information on how to create and read RSS feeds
 > but I haven't found anything on inserting them into html documents. ...
 > Can someone tell me if 1) this is possible and 2) if so how can I set 
it up?

What you're looking for is called an RSS parser, with support for HTML 
output.  I've found some useful RSS tools on phpclasses.org.  A quick 
search just now turns up at least one option[0] as well as some adverts 
for tools doing the same.  Google can likely give you more options than 
you care to look at[1].  If you're using PHP, Magpie is a well-known 
option[2], and if you're using Smarty there's a decent plugin for this 
too[3] written by Monte Ohrt, one of the lead Smarty devs.

As for the how, basically what you do is instantiate the parser object, 
have it connect to and parse the XML that the RSS feed consists of, and 
you get an array of feed items.  Then you'll iterate over those feed 
items to output the HTML, using a foreach or similar construct.

[0] http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2831.html
[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+parser
[2] http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=RSSLoadPlugin

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Max Schwanekamp
http://www.neptunewebworks.com/