News Feed

[polar]

Hi all,
I am trying to insert a live news feed into my website. Something that gives the latest world headlines or sport. How do I do this. I havn't found much on the web.

Any ideas

cheers

Polar

[mack]

Hi polar,
There are quite a ot of news sites that alow you to use their news feeds for free. Basicaly you copy past some code into your oages and they deliver headlines to your site. The user clicks on a headline and is send to view the complete article on their news site. This is the easiest method.

Another way would be to use XML feeds. If you search for news syndication you should pull up a few sites that offer this. XML allows you to receive the page with the news but format it to suit your own website. An XML page is generaly inserted into a template to do this.

Hope this is of some help.

[Oaf357]

I use multiple XML feeds on my site. You might want to search for NDGOnline. They make some great scripts for that kind of thing.

[lorax]

To learn more about Newsfeeds do a search for RSS/RDF. These are XML based technologies which I believe drive most of the newsfeeds out there. All in all, it's typically a very simple matter of cut and paste.