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Agni 
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 8:59am |
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Do any members use RSS to show their latest forum posts? (I have tried
searching the forum for this topic honest, but not found anything.)
I would be very interested if there are any experiences, and is it worth the effort?
Thanks
Nathan
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 10:00am |
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 10:22am |
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Thanks mate. I tried searching for:
http://forums.webwiz.net/search.asp?KW=RSS+feedsa&SM=1&SI=PT&FM=0&OB= 1
(RSS Feeds) but got no results.
Incidentally, the link you gave has some interesting posts, but I am looking for feedback as to whether it is worth using RSS.
I have just created a script that is run whenever a new post is made and it saves the latest posts to this file:
http://www.agni.gr/feed.xml
Looks OK, but now what?
Do I submit it to search engines?
Thanks and sorry to be an XML newbie.
Nathan
www.agni.gr
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 11:12am |
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I think it is absolutely worth it using RSS, it is the best way to interconnect sites, if you have interesting RSS feeds, sites will link to you which is what you want after all, right?
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 12:03pm |
You might want to google for something like free rss travel to find sites that offer feeds. They're always looking for new feeds to add to their lists.
Something that helps encourage people to include your feed is if you also make available for download a .xsl/.xslt style sheet that will format the rss feed into a table or iframe along with some sample asp/php code to pull the feed and pass it through the stlye sheet.
I tried to pull your xml to build a style sheet but got this error.
error was the space between
& and skelet in this code -
ncrete foundations & skeleton,
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 12:06pm |
I agree with micheal. I posted the RSS mod at the following link and
use mine to monitor several message boards I admin. Not only does it
provide users a way of checking posts, but as an admin/moderator I can
monitor the boards quickly since I use Trillian for my RSS reader.
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=11905
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 12:08pm |
Also, if you want to pull in an RSS feed using XML and ASP, then there is a good article here:
http://home.att.net/~codeLibrary/XML/rss.htm
I've used that technique on several sites.
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Posted: 28 February 2005 at 12:27pm |
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That's Great, thankyou for your helpfull replies.
I'll take a look at the links you have suggested.
DP:
"I tried to pull your xml to build a style sheet but got this error."
Yes thanks mate, I noticed that, it was because a member made a new
post that had an "&" in the topic. I'll have to run topic title
though a quick function to replace "&" into "and" and clean
up any other ilegal chars.
Otherwise all is working well and I am using "FeedReader" to keep an
eye I'll take a look at the other links you have suggested.on my
feed.xml page.
What i am now trying to do is put the current post (or at least the
first part of it) as the description, but this is proving a little more
difficult.
Cheers
Nathan
Corfu, Greece
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