Using an RSS Feed (This is Easy)

Hi ST12

I pasted your code into one of my pages it worked fine.

Where are you placing the code. Try placing it in between the body text if you are not doing that already.

If you are then try a simple php hello world, to test your host as set you up for php correctly.

Deano

 

May be it is a web host issue. I am waiting for their reply.

Appreciate your help,
st12

 

I got an email from Hostgator. They HAVE BLOCKED RSS. Reason - their servers got overloaded..

I am using less than 10% of my bandwidth. May be some scripts are run on their servers.
st12

 

Hi
I have been using the code supplied by YSFI for some time now...it works great ..., however I was wondering if there was a way to limit the number of items that it displays as I thought with about 30 items showing, the pages may take longer to load than if it was limited to say 12.
Thanks
Tony

 

Tell them you are paying for a certain amount of bandwidth, it is up to you how you use it. If they won't let you use RSS then tell them you are moving at the end of your contract, as there are plenty of hosts out there who will accept it!

Deano

 

This is what they say on their forum:

"...As of January 31, 2006 the following scripts have been banned from our servers:

http://RSStoBlog.com
http://RSSContentBuilder.com
http://RSSFeedReader.com
http://SubmitYourURL.info

If you find the need to use any of these scripts please reply to this thread and this thread only as we are using it to work with the developers of the software.

We are currently waiting to hear back from a representative so we can find a working solution that will not cause the servers to overload and go offline.
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Do you guys normally just copy and paste the RSS script within the body of a file?
As far as I understand it that's all I need.

I let them know about the usage I have. Waitin for their reply.
Thank you again,
st12

 

ST12,

I too use HostGator. I think after reading your post I've figured out why some things haven't been working for me.

Thanks for the heads up.

Alan

 

Alan

Probably we need to protest this to the hostgator team. We live in 21st century. They have to improve their service or risk losing us.

I 've already sent them an email with my opinion.
Take care.
st12


May be it is time to look for another hosting company which allows unlimited domains. Let me know please if you come across one.

 

Interesting, I use a lot of RSS and was thinking about using Hostgator for some new sites, I guess I will pass. Thanks for the info.

 

Thanks for your informative post

 

will it display images and work with yahoo media rss too?

 

Hi I get alot of html code when using the rotating script. Can somebody help me with this. I saw this question was asked before but it wasn´t answerd.

Greetz

Smetten

 

What codes are you getting?

 

Make sure PHP is enabled on your server...Although as Obenix says a link would help

 

It´s on my localhost, i'm just testing things out.
php is enabled because i copied the code in a php page wich loaded fine. It just shows html in the feed.

example of two articles of the feed:

Hamas says it expects to head new Palestinian govt
Asked whether a Hamas member would become the new prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told Reuters in Cairo: "This is highly expected." But he said it was too soon to talk about names. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=wrR5dm"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=wrR5dm" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews?g=12701"/>


Philippines close to peace deal with rebels
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Muslim rebels and the Philippine government are close to a deal on land claims, the key to ending a 40-year insurgency that has cost more than 120,000 lives, the facilitator of the talks said on Tuesday. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=jBgsts"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=jBgsts" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews?g=12686"/>

ps. I just have this problem with your example feed of reuters. Probably because other feeds i tried it with don´t have images.

Another problem:
I want to change the font of the title and description, how do I insert the html code in the php script to do this?

Greetz

Smetten

 

Thanks alot yfs1 sir it's working great..

and ya I too want to know what smetten is asking. How to customized it ?

 

Smetten I got the same issue. Post here please if you ever solve it. Interestingly they are clickable and you can read the news, but seeing the codes is something that is good to be fixed.
Thank you
st12


Here is an example:

Ex-president Preval takes lead in Haitian election
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Former President Rene Preval appeared headed for an outright victory in Haiti's first election since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted two years ago, according to rivals and initial vote counts. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=C7EpjB"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=C7EpjB" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews?g=12976"/>


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Not to forget: Thank you YSF1!!! This is the first RSS I got working ..... a bit

 

Sorry but I still don't understand how to do this. Could someone please explain what to do with the code. I want news stories from search phrase "nottingham" to appear on a page on my site.

Thanks for your help
Jamie

 

This code doesn't create the RSS it only displays it. You will first have to create a feed (or have someone create one) that does what you are asking.

I doubt one already exists.

You could always create a blog and post Nottingham news then use the RSS feed from it

 

try this feed

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=nottingham&ie=UTF-8&output=rss