Am I correct in say that XML & RSS are used to get the latest stories and things on your webpages. I want to get the headlines from google news about "student Poker" onto my webpage. I have got as far as: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=student+poker&output=rss I believe this is an XML file. I have an HTML page which I want to display these headlines in. I have been trying to work this out for HOURS now but just dont get it. I have read the other threads on this subject. Im further confused, what exactly is the difference between atom and RSS, in fact what are they? Please help! Notting
What do you mean? I cant get it on my site. Is it possible to get google news headings onto your website? Thanks in advance Jamie
Like iatbm said, try MapPieRSS, it's a PHP script thing that you will use (according to it's instructions) to read the RSS feed and display it in html on your webpage. Your host will have to have PHP installed of course (almost all do though). There are other third party solutions as well, try http://rss-info.com/ It's simple, which I think might appeal to you if you don't have any experience with this stuff. As for Atom and RSS, I believe that Atom is the same thing as RSS, it's just a different format for it (like there's RSS 1.0, RSS2.0 and others). The most popular (again, I think, I'm no expert... yet ) is RSS 2.0. Different RSS readers will read/prefer different formatted feeds. Hope that helps.
Yes, you can, but unless you write the script and run it through your own server, you're at the mercy of whatever host is providing you the feed to place on your site. If they go down, your site will lag something awful. Best to do it yourself, I'd imagine.