Showing my latest blog post title on my homepage

Hi,

I am trying to get my blogs latest posts title to appear on my sites homepage.

Basically what i want is, everytime i write a new blog post ( i use wordpress), i want a small piece of text saying, 'Latest Blog Post' and then the title of that blog post and if possible the first few words from the post.

Does anyone know how i would go about doing this?

Thanks for any help.

 

Hi

You could use CARP & pull the latest post off your blogs RSS feed.
the site is here http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/.

It very configurable. Just set it up to pull the title only off the latest RSS entry.

Hope this helps
Regards
Brian

 

are you able to use SSI?

 

I'm not 100% sure what that is?

 

manually with title tags always works...

 

what do you mean by that? i'm still pretty new to php and editing code.

 

this may be a good place to start.

 

thanks sawz, i'll take a look at that now

 

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file( "your_rss_feed.xml" ) ;
$blog = $xml->channel;
$blogEntries = $blog->item;
echo $blogEntries->title . "\n"; 
?>

PHP:

Couldn't you just do that?

 

sorry for the late reply Gordaen, i'll have a look into that and see if it works.

 

i tried it gordaen, but i just keep getting this error,

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_file() in /home/public_html/testfeed.php on line 10

this is my feed url, adquick.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2 and i have just put that where you had this line,

$xml = simplexml_load_file( "your_rss_feed.xml" )

i replaced your_rss_feed.xml with http://adquick.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2

have i done that right?

 

You need php 5 to use that function if I remember correctly.

 

Try this tutorial for PHP4.

If you have a little php knowledge you should be able to figure it out without oo much difficulty.

http://www.bmindful.com/api.aspx

 

jestep, thanks for that. i'll have a look at that.

 

You can also use file_get_contents function to read the xml and then get relevant information from there. That's what I have done on my directory . See the update,news,free stuff heading on right side.
Bye

 

Hi Jeet,

i like the look of what you have done there.

I am still a beginner when it comes to php and what all these functions mean, so would you be willing to explain in detail what i need to do to copy what you did with the file_get_contents function?

Thanks Jeet.