Commodore Remix

According to "marketing" the internet is nothing but a big money farting institution where are tons of costumers waiting to be screwed. CRAP!
Yeah, it's a bloody friday and I'm jumpy, too! Anyone a fight, huh, HUH?!

Come on dude, let's get outside and I'll dig my fist into your face!!

So what the hell is this rss-thingy now!?
Someone has an explanation for a stupid german musician?

> stupid german musician
Everybody knows there are none of those around here! Only smart, principled, talented experts!



Chris

Romeo Knight wrote:So what the hell is this rss-thingy now!?
Someone has an explanation for a stupid german musician?

In short; it's a clever way of getting headlines from other peoples websites without having to actually visit said sites. If you see something you like you click the link and the webpage for said headline pops up in your browser.

These feeds can either be accessed through an RSS reader (also known as an aggregator) by end-users, or pulled into other sites (such as displaying the slashdot.org headlines on your own websites).

Personally I use RSS for keeping track of what's happening on The Register (great site but I hate the index page layout), The BOFH, Palminfocenter.com, SlashDot, BBC News, Geekculture.dk, a mates blog, and various software announcement sites.

I just thought it was about time you could keep up with RKO the same way.

I think a small tutorial on how to add it to our sites is in order.

You can probably find it by searching for RSS PHP/ASP scripts. Its simple XML text; you can view it directly in your browser but you probably want a script that transforms it to pretty HTML.

Been down the "search the web for rss" before - didnt work, but if we hear it from Jan itll be accurate, plus if its so simple, itll just be a small matter of copy n paste

Big thx to exoskeleton for the emails on this, but im afraid its WAY over my head.... however simple it may appear to those in the know.

Matrix wrote:Been down the "search the web for rss" before - didnt work, but if we hear it from Jan itll be accurate, plus if its so simple, itll just be a small matter of copy n paste

In addition to programming skills you'll need some kind of scripting language on your webserver, be it PHP, ASP, Perl, or something else. As all RSS feeds are XML documents you'll either need to code an XML parser yourself or use one of the freely available scripts.

.. and whats a parser, and whats it do ?

> .. and whats a parser
It's someone who eats Parsley innit?

A parser, by definition, is a program that analyses a text and processes it into usable data. In case of an RSS parser, it reads the XML-formatted RSS feed, and extracts headline, URL etc... from it.

you mean like a mail merge....

variables listed as a constant in the word processed document but it drags its display data from another source to fill the variable markers.

Chris Abbott wrote:> .. and whats a parser
It's someone who eats Parsley innit?

and I thought Tas was bad with his naff jokes!