Including part of blog on homepage

Hi all,

Hopefully someone might be able to point me in the right direction to find out how to do this.

Basically I'm in the process of changing the layout of the home page for www.randomrant.co.uk and want to increase traffic to my blog by including somewhere either the latest blog entry title as a link, or else the title followed by the first few lines and a "more..." link at the end of it.

The site is all in php, and while I know the very, very, VERY basics of php, I don't know enough to do this.

Any help much appreciated!

Baz

 

Both of these provide what I think you are looking for. The both offer services from their own servers (which can be problematic if the third party server goes down) but the RSS2HTML option provides a script you can download onto your own server.

RSS2HTML
RSS Digest

I use RSS2HTML to provide syndication of my General Aviation News blog which is syndicated using that software by the Beech Aero Club and the International League of Aeronauts (Ballooning).

 

Thanks Tim, I'll take a look at that. Sounds like exactly what I'm after.

Baz

 

is magpie free now? I checked it out quite a while ago, before writing a hacked up horrible rss parser, and it costed money. =)