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[MJR]

Is there an XML feed for these forums?

[Scottie]

We do and it would certainly help if I made it accessible, wouldn't it?

I've added the XML button to the bottom of the page for accessing the RSS feed.

[McFox]

Dumb question time again. :dribble:

How does one actually use the XML? Cut and paste the code into an html webpage? Or is it something more complicated?

McF

[websage]

In fact this might not be the place, but it would be great to publish a link or two on enabling XML feed to one's web site.

[Jill]

Hey Scottie, I clicked on the xml icon to see what it did, and the dates it's showing are Wed. I'm pretty sure today is Tuesday...if not...I missed my newsletter deadline

I'm still not clear on how to use those little xml graphics either! I've read enough stuff about this, but it just never seems to sink in!

[Scottie]

Well, the dates are wrong but it is pulling current content. I'll look at that.

You really need an RSS reader to use the feed.

Still love the avatar, McFox...

[csjavi]

For Opera users: Opera 7.50 Preview 2 can read RSS. You can find the download link at my.opera.com/forums/ in the Beta Testing forum. It seems to be a very stable release with lots of new cool things, too. Of course you shouldn't install it over a your previous (final) version.

[MJR]

I got it working just fine on my portal test site (this is a portal network development site) I am running it with All Headline News and Search Engine Watch. Works great - just came here from there

[domokun]

hi mjr,
could you tell the rest of us how you got the xml feed to display on your portal site?

thanks in advance

[MJR]

Well actually it is a built in PHP Module that comes with this open source script I have been exprimenting with. I am not quite sure how to include it onto an actual built page other than using Javascript coding. You can however create a page that will specifically pull in the RSS/XML feeds. Need some techno help here

Edited by MJR, 25 February 2004 - 05:57 AM.

[Scottie]

Check out this thread for more info on the different feeds available from this forum.

[SmellieNellie]

Still love the avatar, McFox...

I'm with you you Scottie!!

[McFox]

Still love the avatar, McFox...

Cool, huh?
For some reason, when I took a photo of myself on timer with the new camera, it showed some fat bloke. Must be broken or something. Anyway, I had this photo on file, which is more or less what should have been in the pic. so I have merely substituted it till I get the camera fixed.

McF

[Grumpus]

Jill - that Wed date is the "build date" of the XML feed. And, it's done at GMT which is 5 hours ahead of you, so in Greenwich, it was, in fact, Wednesday.

Anyone else:
Here's what the High Rankings Feed looks like after formatting.

In order to read XML/RSS files, you need some sort of feed reader (commonly called an aggregator). This is similar to having to have a news reader for USENET Newsgroups (or using something like Google's web based news reader at groups.google.com). There are standalone RSS agregators that are similar to e-mail programs, but designed for RSS feeds or there are web based ones (like the one I linked to above - though that one is my own personal one - there's no real public interface to it).

We've started collecting some good information on the whole concept of RSS and how it all works in the RSS Content Feeds section of my resource directory. There's basic general info, plus a programming section, a section for various free aggregators (both standalone and web based) and a section listing various webmastering related feeds that are out there. (I just added the one from here, too).

If you're not up to speed on XML and RSS, that link above will be a good place to find more info.

G.

[SmellieNellie]

Hey McF - don't suppose I could borrow your camera??

Smellie