Hi all, ok, I have a forum and my forum has an RSS feed. And What I am trying to do is to figure out how to have a reader on the index page at my web site so that I can display the feed on other pages of my web site if I want to. I read that the best way is to use a PHP script so that the search bots can read the feed. Does anyone know of a good script or how do I do this ?
Hey bud, what forum software are you using now and what homepage software are you using ? I use the easy route and use a Rss Parser wordpress plugin or joomla and it does the job for me. Ive got a small rss ticker that rotates one line from a feed you can see it just under the adsense advert on this site : Football Forum - Soccer Forum Let me know if you want it , you might be able to customise it to do more what you want ? Ill send it with basic instructions on how to install it
Hi Riverwire Thanks for you help. Well my forum is SMF , my homepage is just html just made from scratch no Wordpress or Joomla or anything like that. Once I get my forum rolling I will be starting up a word press blog. The ticker on your Soccer forum sounds interesting. Or should I say Football Forum. I think you have my email so please send me the script if you get a minute.
How to display an RSS feed with a single PHP function? The URL of the file may be - local, in the form: rss.xml, or - distant in the form:Xul.fr: Tutorials and Applications of the Web 2.0. There is only one difference, if the filename has the ".php" extension when it is generated by a CMS or such software, locally the file is processed by the server as a text file while remotely it is processed as a script. There is no difference if the extension is ".xml". The script is compatible with: - RSS 2.0 (that is compatible with 0.91, 0.92 etc.) - RSS RDF or RSS 1.0. Actually the script extracts the title, link and description tags and ignores the format of structure of the document. The benefit of PHP to display an RSS feed is that it will be visible by search engines.
