I want my users to have access to the feeds on my site (3rd party feeds) but I don't want to display them as content unless they click on the link nor do I want them as mulitple menu items. How would you organize this?
If I'm understanding your question correctly, the easiest way I can think of would be to place a single link on your page, titled 'RSS Feeds' or something similar. You could then have this link to a page with the feed snippets, and links out to the full feeds. HTH, Sam
What if I want to display 5 RSS Feeds (news) on one and the same page, how would I arrange them, for example I want to have TOP 3 frm each of them in one page, is it possible?
Hi Ludwig, If I'm understanding your question correctly, you want to display RSS feeds from multiple sources on the same page, and in addition, only display the top three (or whatever number you choose) from each individual feed. Setting this up will probably depend on how the feed from each source is displayed as a default, and you may need a custom script to have it display to your liking. I think it's definitely doable, though, and probably not a big deal from a programming perspective. HTH, Sam
Hi Sam, You areright, I think there is nothing impossible, but the case is that I want to have them not one after another, but sorted by date Descendingly I can have it like this: Get the RSS feed data that I need and copy it to an SQL database, then display the results on my page, the way I want Its possible, but this will make my site load slowly, especially for those who use dial-up as their inet connection.... There I several way. I mean I can have like 3 pages, showing different RSS and one page showing the combination... But do you think it will work OK if I have the page with all the data on the go and not using the DB???? Thanks a head...
Hi Ludwig, Well, that is a bit more complicated, but I'm sure you can still make it happen if you set your mind to it. I'm not a programming whiz by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't know how you could set it up without a database. I'm sure it's possible, but beyond the scope of my present skills. I like the three page -> one idea, but I'm not sure how you'd set it up to display in date order. One thing I can suggest if you don't come up with something on your own - you could post it as a job on one of the outsourcing sites, e.g. Elance, Rent-A-Coder, etc., just to see what it would entail and what the cost would be. This may make your decision to pursue it easier - one way or the other... Best of Luck, Sam
Hi again Sam, About displaying the data without a database, I use an ASP script for all my sites, you can view a sample on www.hay.am About the database, just the way I show them, I can enter the data into a database (removing the duplicate values), and only then I can sort them by date It's where the programmer should show his knowledge and organize things in the right way. I will have all the RSS on separate pages, but the first page I can't give out only one site's RSS, I don't want to discriminate any site I want to do so, I am currently looking for a person or a team who could construct all the sections for www.hay.am, I just want to know the price. If its gonna be cheap, I might construct like 50 sites for my clients here and order somebody to have all the programming of my site done, I just don't have the time to work on big projects. Thanks for shareing your thoughts with. As we have gone out of topic and started to discuss my site in place of bjraines's, I would like to apologize to bjraines. Thank you again guys
My apologies to bjraines, as well - hopefully he (and others) are benefitting from this discussion. I know that for at least three of the outsourcing sites - Elance, Rent-A-Coder, and ScriptLance - you can post a project without obligation to reward it to a bidder. This would probably be a good way to determine how much it would cost (and find a prospective programmer), without having to commit. Best of luck. Sam