[Web4lib] Another RSS-related Question

[David Kemper]

If you use Dreamweaver to design your website, I found a neat little
PHP RSS writer extension.

http://www.tecnorama.org/document.php?id_doc=68

I have used it a few times and it produces good results. No need to
write a single line of script. But I guess it wouldn't hurt if one
knew some PHP.

David

On 9/25/07, Hutchens, Chad <chutchens at montana.edu> wrote:
> 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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