I want to make a news subdomain for my directory andI want to syndicate feeds from some of the papers online, kinda like yahoo does I guess. Anyone know a good piece of PHP software that would let me do this - break them down by topic - world, national, top stories etc? Embedding pictures and stuff into the articles would be cool as well.
I hear http://www.feedsfarm.com/ is good for getting on-topic RSS feeds To parse RSS feeds with PHP I suggest Magpie RSS, can't fault it
see my post here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=37437#post37437 if you view the source you can see how I've used a data island to show the info. I've got a wee tech problem with the data island not working every time but its a wip. Sarah ps: magpie is at http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
Carp is good; especially if you are php challenged. There is a good set of directions with it. They have a free and a paid. http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/
I'm php naive; I using it for my internal order processing stuff, but I have no idea how to code in it (was a miracle I could even get the COOP thing working). Would anyone here be willing to set up a news subdomain (I can pay of course) for me using my current site layout with topical sections (top stories, sports etc). I'm also kinda interested in integrating it with PHPbb so I can have visitors comment on each of the stories. I guess each story would make a new topic in phpbb so people can comment on them - no need to register. Is that possible? I've seen some mods that make phpbb SE friendly using modrewrite and I'm wanting to put that in as well, obviously.
I could do the news subdomain for you; but it depends on how pretty you want it. I am not a webdesigner. I do have a news subdomain myself at http://news.flawebworks.com Take a look and see if thats what you want. I keep things simple. As far as the phpbb goes; I've just started working with it so I'm while I'm sure I could figure it out; it would take me a couple of days. News subdomain wouldn't take long. Feel free to pm if interested.
lorien1973 --- do you have the technical skills to include the content of one file into another file? I have a system for RSS feeds where you can specify the feed and my system will auto-ftp the RSS feed as HTML onto your server. You then just need to be able to include the .htm file into your site using your program of choice. If you want to give it a try, post the RSS feeds so I can confirm they work in the system. I am using a dozen or so right now but am not sure I have programmed for every valid format out there. -Nitin