Comments on: Is There A Way To Add An Rss Feed To An Html Page For Easy News Updating?

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:56:09 +0000

It sounds like you want to display an RSS feed within your HTML website. The easiest/best way to do this is to use RSS2HTML a free PHP script. This means that you can retain the complete control of the HTML layout (using templates) and make it match your existing design. Additionally using PHP rather than JavaScript will mean that search engine spiders can “spider” the contents of the RSS feeds.
Additional details and a free rss2html download is available at: http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm
Additional information and other options for displaying RSS feeds can be found at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/displa…
Goodluck!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:29:44 +0000

The correct way to consume an rss feed is on the server-side. An excellent approach in PHP would be to use Zend’s Zend_Feed (http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend… coupled with Zend_Cache (http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend…
That’s the “right” way. To answer your question, yes it is possible to aggregate a feed using purely client-side technologies. Check out http://www.projectzero.org/sMash/1.1.x/d… However, this is isn’t a good way to do it for a couple of reasons. First, it forces clients to download processing code and taxes user’s browsers with the task of parsing external scripts. Second, you are forcing the content to be re-downloaded on each page load without caching mechanisms… very inefficient and taxing on the remote resource.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:29:49 +0000

Don’t think you need an RSS feed to up small content amounts on your pages if you use Server Side Includes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side…
But, if you think RSS is what you need, I like FeedBurner.http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/…http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/homehttp://www.rssfeedsgenerator.com/http://www.site-reference.com/rss-parser…http://www.make-rss-feeds.com/rss-tags.h…http://www.site-reference.com/syndicate.…http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php
Ron