RSS (PHP and google) questions

[traderone]

I'm soooo confused! hehe, not really. Just a lot of options I guess...

I'm looking into RSS because I thought it would be good to:
1) have a steady source of fresh content that is pertinent to a site's topic.
2) be indexed in google with a potential source of very current/hot keywords (I'm referring to news headlines)

I have basic HTML skills and use the WSYWIG NVU.
I just read a great tutorial here at namepros on PHP which I want to learn more about.
I use various java scripts and such that I copy from free online sources and alter as needed, even if I don't always understand the code.

I'd prefer to take my time to accomplish this instead of just haphazardly throwing together a bunch of pages. (I'll admit I was tempted)

So my first question was how do I get these RSS feeds to appear on my page (example: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories )
I found a bunch of sites offering something similar to these:
http://www.rssfeedreader.com
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

The best I could figure :
1) They offer you a line of code in your choice of PHP or JavaScript (and sometimes an iframe for HTML).
2) A very small ad (about 3 lines/text only) for some is at bottom of the news feed.
3) One site says this about PHP vs. JavaScript:
"PHP (Search Engine Friendly Solution) Solution"
"JavaScript Solution (Search Engines cannot read JavaScript)"
Is that true?
4)One of the news feeds suggested with rssfeedreader.com is a Yahoo URL:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=football
which can be easily changed for keywords (think website specific) by simply replacing the last word (football).
I like the way rssreedfeeder.com does a popup when a visitor clicks on a news item, instead of being forwarding away from my site.
However they include a small ad at the end. That might not to big a deal.

Is there some other way I should be looking into? I'm not to sure I like a 3rd party getting between my site and the newsfeed,
(yahoo-news-feed for example). Is there a simple script I can use that will bypass the 3rd party?

Ok, if there are no practical alternatives, I may use a php code from rssfeedreader.com .

-traderone

 

[samkool]

I also want to learn that, somebody plz help

 

[kbossons]

Before you go the third party route, Wordpress has some very nice addons for RSS syndication. I've used Feedwordpress specifically:

http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress

And the inclusion code:

<?
 if ($rs = aggrss('http://site.com/feed/')) {
foreach ($rs['items'] as $item) {
 echo "<p><a href='".$item['link']."'>".$item['title']."</a><br/>".html_entity_decode($item['description'])."</p>";}

 if ($rs['items_count'] <= 0) {
echo "Sorry, no items found in the RSS file";}
}
?>

I'm by no means a PHP coder, but that code does the job, and will work anywhere within the loop

 

[Masahiro]

Try looking somewhere such as www.hotscripts.com. They have all kinds of stuff there.

 

[traderone]

Thanks for the replies.

I found this PHP RSS Parser that is suposed to generate the code for a web page, but could not get it to work (at 3 am). I was getting a 'parse error' that included my ftp login name for my godaddy account. Being very new to php, i'm baffled by that. Still it looks very promising. I wish it would work!
http://www.globalsyndication.com/rss-parser. Would someone else try it?

I'm going to look into some of the suggestions in this thread after I do some errands.

Thanks,
traderone

 

[dpk87]

Try a script called magpierss, easy to use. Search for it on Google.

 

[samkool]

http://www.globalsyndication.com/rss-parser works .. hurrah :D

 

[traderone]

http://www.globalsyndication.com/rss-parser works .. hurrah :D

Awesome samkool, thats great. I could not get that code to work for me on my godaddy Linux account. (I got a parse error that included my ftp login) Who do you use? Had some problems with magpie too, but I will figure 'em out tomorow I think.

Check this one out. I thought it was very cool:

http://www.suttree.com/code/rss/

It's just one file, you download from sutree, and then upload to your server. It will be apearant how you customize for your site.

-traderone

 

[webmark]

Try This

I have used this on occasion, works pretty well.

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/