RSS Feeds (blog) to HTML Websites

[Tony Laubach]

I've searched and searched and feel like I am looking for the White House gate code or something! LOL I'm trying to write a basic HTML page which has an embedded section that it pulls the blog file on my website to this other page in order to display parts of the blog on it.

I've seen a few hits on javascripting this; some on reader programs, etc. But nothing with a simple, straight answer.

Does anyone know how this can be done? Again, what I want to do is make a spot on my page which can pull the last entry from my blog and post it onto a separate page.

 

[Andrew Herron]

Here's the way I do it:

1. Download this file: http://www.kritikal.com/scripts/lastRSS.phps
2. Save it to your public_html directory
3. Put this code into the page that you want to show just the 1 post

include 'lastRSS.php';
$ljrss = new lastRSS;

$ljrss->items_limit = 1;

if ($feed = $ljrss->get('http://LOCATION TO FEED')) {

	$title = "";
	$pubdate = "";
	$description = "";
	$body = "";

	foreach ($feed['items'] as $item) {
		$title = $item['title'];
		$pubdate = $item['pubDate'];
		$description = $item['description'];
		$body .= <<<BODY_HTML
			<table class="entry" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
				<tr><td class="title">$title</td><td class="pubdate" align="right">$pubdate</td></tr>
				<tr><td class="desc" colspan="2">$description</td></tr>
			</table>

BODY_HTML;

Now, "$body" will have your rss html that you can just echo right out into the page. This code is directly from my ljrss script that I use so if you have any questions just let me know. You can also change the "$items_limit" variable to any number you want.

 

[Tony Laubach]

Thanks man!

Is that code a Javascript? How do I open this code in the page?

 

[Gerrit Gulden]

Hey Tony, Here is what I use.

http://www.rss-info.com/en_rssinclude-simple.html

Its very easy and clean and im pretty sure it is exactly what you are looking for. It has the option to do HTML, Java and I think PHP for the outcome.

-gerrit

 

[Jim Hunt]

Hey Tony, Here is what I use.

http://www.rss-info.com/en_rssinclude-simple.html

Its very easy and clean and im pretty sure it is exactly what you are looking for. It has the option to do HTML, Java and I think PHP for the outcome.

-gerrit

That is excellent! I had been tinkering to get this done and it took me less than 10 minutes with this service.

http://www.kokomo-weather.com/warn.php

Thank you.