Ive been experimenting with RSS feeds for use on our sites, and have been using my email program (Thunderbird) to download the feeds. However, I noticed that if i updated the feed with a minor change, and tried to dl the new version using Thunderbird, it doesn't seem to detect the latest feed. Upon experimentation I found that it checks the links within the <link> tags, and only downloads new ones. Is this is the standard with link aggregators? Esp ones that are used for sites?
I'm struggling with a similar problem and not finding information as easily as I expected. Here are a couple resources that have been of some help: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/ http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271 http://www.2rss.com/ http://www.w3schools.com/rss/rss_item.asp I'm trying to get my PHPBB forum RSS to update automatically when a new post is entered in the forums.
Hmmm... have you tried adding php code that automatically adds that item to the feed everytime a post is made? You can use PHP to modify the XML fie directly, just treat the XML file as a txt file
I havent gotten to that level. I did visit the phpbb forum and found out there is a mod to do exactly what i want, I'm considering that route. Is there a resource that explains this code you mentioned? i may need that on another project, even if I use the mod on this problem.
Unfortunately, i don't know of any resources, as I ahven't gotten that far myself best to google it, methinks.