Hi Guys, I just stumbled upon this idea of displaying the latest blog posts (the blog is on a other site) on the phpLD. I think that this can be done with the help of RSS. But I am still not sure. I searched but did not found a mod that can do something like this. Is there a free one available ? Please help me. Amit
Just look at your database, where posts from blog are stored. Than build MySQL query in init.php before any other phpld-db query, and finaly somewhere at the end of init.php assign query result to template. This is 5 minutes max. Then put it on your template. Another 5 minutes for styling - D.
As you did it on Zyas (just to show him how it looks like) Under the "Latest News" Dargre made this trick
I think amit wants to show blog posts from a different site so pulling the data straight from the DB isnt possible, thats why he wants to parse his RSS feed.
It's still possible with some tricks on both sides. Also can be parsed from RSS, you're right mikey1090 about that.
Yes that is correct Mikey & Dargre, I want to parse the RSS feed from my directory blog on domain X to my phpLD directory on domain Y. Also want to make sure that this is not done by a javascript on my phpld as I want backlinks for my blog posts from my directory
Tricks can include changing server settings like external mysql connection permissions, which may not be possible on shared hosting. I'm sure you know this anyway. It would be done with server side code - php so would be crawlable.
This is pretty easy actually, Ive had this from the start getting blog posts and showing them www.directorymix.com under the categories you will notice DIR BLOG and TEMPLATES BLOG if you are using feedburner which you should simply use the Publicize Feature and play around with the settings the way you want to display the news, then simply get the code and paste it where you want it to show.
LINK Using feed burner you can bring in any blog etc, it will depend if you can get to your source code and edit that,( hit the refresh button top right ), i have them roataing but more coding, and will have them specific to catagory / sub catagory,.
I used the rss mod to mine on lobo links, because the directory and blog are in different databases. I just can't remember where I got the dumb mod at.
Here is a free mod with install instructions included that should fetch and parse any feed you would want. Free Rss mod Requires no database changes. The link shows a sample of news feeds. You can set it up to pull in yours or others blog feeds or articles and set it to cache the results. This may be an easy option for anyone wanting to display feeds on their directory. You can download the zip file instantly from the site.