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Displaying an RSS Newsfeed

I have no clue what I am doing :-)

         

dotme

4:29 pm on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hello everyone - I have a site that offers an RSS feed. I am a die-hard ASP programmer and have posted code on my site for ASP developers who want to display my newsfeed on their website.

I googled PHP RSS and found one or two PHP scripts that I posted on my site for PHP users - but they are telling me they don't work.

If only there was an "asp2php.bat" app I could run..lol

Does anyone here display RSS newsfeeds on their website? I would really like to help these other sites out but I can't support them and it's frustrating.

Advice/Answers appreciated!

coopster

10:19 pm on Mar 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member



What isn't working dotme? Are you receiving error messages? If you want to take the time to dig in a bit the members in this forum are more than willing to help you get some PHP experience and understanding.

StupidScript

11:28 pm on Mar 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



In order for RSS to function, regardless of whether PHP is installed, the server needs to have the proper RSS software installed ... otherwise the server won't know how to handle the feed.

For example, when one of my clients wanted to post a news feed from WebMD on their site, we needed to make sure that server's installation of PERL was able to handle the task, and needed to install the XML::RSS and LWP::Simple packages. The server (Apache2.0) did not come with the ability to interpret RSS feeds. Once we got the server set up, using PHP or HTML to post the feed was not a problem.

Perhaps the folks who are trying to implement your feed have server configuration or software issues?

What kind of feedback are you getting from them?