How to: Have your own Recent Blog link with out Blogger, Movable Type or WordPress.

Here's how you can have your own Recent Blog link if you don't use Blogger, Movable Type or WordPress.

In the file examples below, you only need to change

http:/www.DOMAIN.com/

and

***TITLE***

That's what'll show up in the link URL and link text, and you will have to manually update the title when you make a new blog, and link if the URL changes.

[size=+2]For perl.[/size]

#!/usr/bin/perl

{
   print "Content-Type: text/xml\n\n";
print <<EOM;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/1.5.2" -->
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
	<title>yadda yadda yadda</title>
	<link>http://www.DOMAIN.com/</link>
	<description>Not just another wordpress blog</description>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>***TITLE***</title>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
EOM
   exit;
}

Code (perl):

Example.

[size=+2]Use .htaccess to turn a file in to a xml page.[/size]

In this example, name the file blog.rss.

At domain.com/.htaccess add...

AddType 'text/xml; charset=UTF-8' rss

Then in blog.rss in the directory with .htaccess....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/1.5.2" -->
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
	<title>yadda yadda yadda</title>
	<link>http://www.DOMAIN.com/</link>
	<description>yadda yadda yadda</description>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>***TITLE***</title>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

Code (xml):

Example.

[size=+2]For php.[/size]

<?

// this works
header("Content-type: text/xml");

?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/1.5.2" -->
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
	<title>yadda yadda yadda</title>
	<link>http://www.DOMAIN.com/</link>
	<description>yadda yadda yadda</description>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>***TITLE***</title>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

Code (php):

Example.

[size=+2]Or a simple text file will work.[/size]

Though when you look at the file you'll just see text instead of what you see in a normal xml page.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/1.5.2" -->
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
	<title>yadda yadda yadda</title>
	<link>http://www.DOMAIN.com/blog</link>
	<description>yadda yadda yadda</description>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>***TITLE***</title>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

Code (xml):

Example.

And then what ever the URL is of the xml page, you enter it in your options.

 

Edit

That's really cool Nintendo if people only use if for a blog. Thanks