Topic: RSS call

On my website, I plan to include a call to a RSS file. This file contains daily quotes, and changes everyday.

For XML files, it can be achieved by something like that :

<xml src="[i]url of the xml file[/i]" id="quote" async="false"></xml>

<br />Author:

<span datasrc="#quote" datafld="author"></span>

<br />Content:

<span datasrc="#quote" datafld="content"></span>

(Of the course the XML file has to contain the tags author and content)

Now I want to do that with a RSS file... I've searched many times, many places, (and changing that code) but I haven't found how to call a RSS file. Help ?



[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 06-10-2003).]

Moon Shadow: You should avoid actually inserting XML into your page as browser support isn't great. Your best bet is to use a server-side script to process the RSS file. Do you have access to something like PHP or ASP?

[edit: And if you have PHP do you have Expat?]

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Yes I can use PHP.. However I never found the time to learn it. How can I call the file in PHP, and then format it like I want ?

I will search myself, but I'm starting from scratch, a little help would be appreciated.

Edit : I've searched what is Expat... I made an info page about the PHP version used on my server here. Looks like Expat is supported (version 1.95.2), but I still don't know what it does exactly.

[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 06-10-2003).]

Moon Shadow: nice setup for a free account (XSLT support too ). I'll drop you a line on ICQ (I see you are around) - I have a RSS parser.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Thanks to the RSS parser Emperor sent me, I was able to do what I wanted. I had to play with the PHP code for a few tricks (removing image, formatting the text with my css, selecting only four quotes out of twelve), it wasn't easy, hopefully I knew some basic of Javascript that helped

The result is here. Each day, the four quotations will change and I haven't a single thing to do...

Very, very powerful trick