Rss Feed - Php - Fragment

[gabrielcrowe]

I feel that i must pop in here and give my two penneth:

There is a php function designed to fetch text over the internet:

http://uk3.php.net/function.file-get-contents

get your feed working in any external php server based page, rendering your feed into pretty html then try:

echo file_get_contents("http://www.site.com/myfeed.php"); 

in a php block, in an actinic template.

[Faulkds]

Leaves me in the brown stuff.

I don't know PHP, havent a clue, and dont care... Hence the reason why i bought this RSS App Content builder software. Its been great uptil now...

I've had to email the software company to see if they can help.

As fasthosts are a bunch of merchant bankers!

[gabrielcrowe]

looky, its really easy.

if you can render an rss feed, into html, then you can use that function to include it into an actinic template.

you dont *need* to know php, i gave you the single line of code you'll need.

insert it into an actinic template, inside a php block.

[Faulkds]

The problem is not so much getting it display but getting the data in the first place. I don't understand how's that done. Basically how it sort of works is you put the link details into the software it runs it through its sausage machine and produces the php or java script

[Faulkds]

Thanks everyone....

Got a php solution in the end.. Used a product called magic rss.

[Darren B]

glads its sorted, got a url so i can take a peak

[Faulkds]

Hi Mr B,

My test site is http://www.motocc.co.uk/acatalog/Biker_News.shtml

Also

http://www.motocc.co.uk/acatalog/Video_section.shtml

Still working on it ....

[Faulkds]

Oh it just continues....

I now have the rss feed working using Magic RSS.

However, the script file they give you is encrypted so you cant view it or change it. Which means you can only load one feed a time into your pages as on each feed you load it comes up with Feed Reader from Magic RSS at the end of the feed.

This really is starting to have nothing to do with Actinic.... So ill drop it from here on...

[gabrielcrowe]

if an open source solution exists, always try that first, unless licensing prohibits:

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/