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theMusicMan
12-11-2004, 09:19 AM
Hi All

I am really hoping that someone here will be able to offer some advice to me. I have asked over at vb.com and also on Sitepoint but so far nothing has come of the questions I ask.

I want to be able to offer RSS feeds for others to then be able to display the latest posts from my www site on their www site - and when a user/visitor of their www site clicks on one of the links, they then get taken to my site with the full thread in view.

I know how to turn on external feeds within vB and indeed have already done so - what I have no idea how to do is to then get the output of that external.php file actually displayed on another web page... or rather, how do I tell my users how they get the output of external.php to display on a web page on their own site...?

I can open up the RSS feed in a news reader application which works fine... but I want to be able to display these on web pages.

Also, if I could find out how to do this, I have a zillion ideas as to how to create useful new modules for vBA.

Can anyone help with this please...? thanks.
rbl
12-11-2004, 09:45 AM
The folks that want to display your feeds on their sites must have a parser module on their software or stand-alone parser to "translate" your feed into html.
A lot of blogware have already parsers built-in but for everyone else there's MagpieRSS and Carp, both are projects on sourceforge.net

I prefer MagpieRSS for a several reasons, specially because it can parse atom feeds.
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tomshawk
12-11-2004, 10:04 AM
If you use CARP http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/
and your friend uses vbadvanced CMPS

I have realeased a couple of modules on this site for displaying RSS feeds

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3098
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2598

But, the instructions for the carp program as well as MagpieRSS show how to display feeds in a standard HTML file

HTH ;)
theMusicMan
12-11-2004, 10:52 AM
Thanks both.... great stuff there that at last I think I can get stuck into...:) cheers....
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ptmuldoon
02-05-2005, 05:25 PM
Could someone possibly give me a hand with this one. I beleive I've done everything correct, and I have the block on home portal page. But when I choose my news feed, CNN World news, Its just blank. I do seem to have any errors either. The news feed is this:

//http://xml.newsisfree.com//feeds/15/2315.xml

Also, just a note, I found this site //http://www.newsmedianews.com/xml/xmllist.htm to be great source for newsfeeds.

Currently, I've only setup feed1, so all of others should be ingnored right now anyway.
tomshawk
02-05-2005, 07:44 PM
A link to your site might allow us to help you a little better ptmuldoon ;)
ptmuldoon
02-05-2005, 08:35 PM
Sorry. I need to add that into my profile. I'm in the middle of building a family site.

www.noodlum.com
tomshawk
02-05-2005, 08:56 PM
Could you post the contents of your forums/feed/feed1.php

I looked at the source and it looks like it is missing something
ptmuldoon
02-06-2005, 08:55 AM
Sure, no problem, and thanks for your help as well.

<html>
<body>

<div id="datacontainer" style="position:absolute;left:1px;top:10px;width:100%" onMouseover="scrollspeed=0" onMouseout="scrollspeed=cache">

<?php
require_once "/home/public_html/carp/carp.php";

// Show 3 items
CarpConf('maxitems',10);

// surround the item link with a DIV
// CarpConf('bilink','<div style="background:#cccccc; width:210px; padding:2px; border:1px solid #333333;">');
// CarpConf('ailink','</div>');

// get rid of the underline under the links
// CarpConf('ilinkstyle','text-decoration:none');

// set the CSS classes of the channel and item links
CarpConf('clinkclass','h2');
CarpConf('ilinkclass','h3');

CarpConf('linktarget',1);

// Display it
CarpCacheShow('http://xml.newsisfree.com//feeds/15/2315.xml');
?>

<!-- END SCROLLER CONTENT -->

</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* IFRAME Scroller script- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

//Specify speed of scroll. Larger=faster (ie: 5)
var scrollspeed=cache=2

//Specify intial delay before scroller starts scrolling (in miliseconds):
var initialdelay=500

function initializeScroller(){
dataobj=document.all? document.all.datacontainer : document.getElementById("datacontainer")
dataobj.style.top="5px"
setTimeout("getdataheight()", initialdelay)
}

function getdataheight(){
thelength=dataobj.offsetHeight
if (thelength==0)
setTimeout("getdataheight()",10)
else
scrollDiv()
}

function scrollDiv(){
dataobj.style.top=parseInt(dataobj.style.top)-scrollspeed+"px"
if (parseInt(dataobj.style.top)<thelength*(-1))
dataobj.style.top="5px"
setTimeout("scrollDiv()",40)
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", initializeScroller, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", initializeScroller)
else
window.onload=initializeScroller

</script>

</body>
</html>
tomshawk
02-06-2005, 09:44 AM
The problem is in your carp installation/configuration somewhere.

Go through the carp install again and that should get you up and running ;)
ptmuldoon
02-06-2005, 10:06 AM
Thansk, after running the setup again, and seeing that was working, I found the problem. It was actully the feed1 file, and not having the path correct for the require_once.