I have never used Rss feeds before, but I would liek to use one off a movie site on my student site.. Can I do this? The site is all php pages, can I get them to look as blog posts? How do I set it up? Lol sorry but I have never used these befores. Any help please.
The easiest way to do this is by using a service like Feedigest. They offer javascript ability and php include. You can do it on your own, but it's not easy. FYI: From what I understand, javascript pulled content is not indexed but php included text is indexed, so I use the php include code that Feedigest offers instead of the javascript. I did this here: safelicehelp.com and here: duzins.com I actually changed the RSS feed for the duzins site to that which I pull from feedigest. Right now I am only pulling a buy.com datafeed on the site, but when I have time I'll add the other datafeeds and feedigest can mix them together. There are other ways you can do it too. I decided to do a blog at my celeb site, but I have a tab of 'breaking news' that updates hourly. It's a mix of 5 or 6 forum and celeb feeds, and so that I don't get into fair use issues I only pull the headlines and a snippet w/a link back, and I don't pull just one feed. I hope I didn't give so much info that I confused you.. Good luck
Im confused lol Ok So Ill go check that software out - feedigest. Can the feed be feeded and posted as if it where a blog in our blog section? I am sure you have answered that, but little confused. Thanks for the info though EDIT: Feedigest isnt taking any new users :S Any others?
Ok I got into feeddigest and set up the feed, and I have the code on my site. The feed I am using is msns top downlaoded songs, seeing as I can only show 10 listings I want it to show the top ten starting at #1 and ending at #10 but it doesnt want to seem to list in order. Can ya help?
http://www.topukstudents.com/music/ down in the middle bottom place. I want it to be like this - #1 #2 #3 #4 but instead it wants to do this - #5 #1 #9 #8 it's like eh??
I don't know what else would make it work. If you subscribe to the feed in a reader does it appear in order? If it does, I'd ask them at FeedDigest. They are very fast on support issues.
No problem Google has a reader (reader.google.com). Bloglines also is a great one. Just signup for one of the services (free) and past the url of the rss feed into the 'add subscription' area and you'll see it in the order that the feed is sending it out in. If you are running Firefox pre-2.0 or pre IE 7, you can see the RSS feed by placing the url in the browser and pulling it like any other site. You should be able to see the document tree then, and just skimming its will tell you if you are looking at the items in correct order or not.