[Web4lib] Another RSS-related Question

[Hutchens, Chad]

PHP 5 will parse an RSS feed natively without the need to do any custom
scripting.  Of course, you'd need PHP 5 mounted on locally hosted server
to do this.

Chad E. Hutchens
Electronic Resources Librarian
Montana State University Libraries
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT  59717-3320
(406) 994-4313 phone
(406) 994-2851 fax 
chutchens at montana.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Pons, Lisa
(ponslm)
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:21 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Another RSS-related Question

On our intranet, I have a php script that takes the feed url from one of
our databases, then turns out an html page. It requires a database
backend.I can't send a url, as it's behind the firewall. You might be
able to find a similar perl script as well. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Vidrine
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:39 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Another RSS-related Question
> 
> Here is what I want to accomplish via RSS:
> 
> On my library home page, I have a graphical link to our 
> library blog. Below this link, I want to create automatically 
> updated links of the 3 most recent postings to the blog so 
> visitors to the home page will see when the blog has been updated.
> 
> I read about Feed Digest, so I signed up for the service two 
> weeks ago. I simply copied and pasted into the home page the 
> RSS feed code that was generated for me. It accomplished 
> exactly what I wanted.
> 
> Now I have discovered that the code is slowing down the 
> loading of the library site. Furthermore, I just noticed the 
> appearance of a "Powered by Feed Digest..." statement 
> underneath the feed. Maybe these annoyances would be 
> eliminated by upgrading to the paid version of Feed Digest, 
> but I want a free way to do this without slowing down my site.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you,
> Rachel
> 
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