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Sep 27.2003

I’ve made a little ticker for my site and now I want to make it access the BBC headlines from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml

Unfortunately, I don’t know how to embed the text from this page into my site. How?

I appreciate any help I can get.

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@Khalid_AliSep 27.2003 — rss files are XML files,you will need to read the XML file,parse the contents and display them.

The RSS files have a the following format

<item><!-- represents one item of data, below is the rest of the contents//-->

<title>Tite of hte item</title>

<description>Description of the conent</description>

<link>URL:</link>

</title>

The best option will be to use server side language to open the rss file and process it and then diplay it in a page....
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@alisdairiauthorSep 27.2003 — I was hoping I wouldn't have to. My php is limited, but I guess I will do it that way. I was jsut being lazy. Would this work to access the file before parsing?

$filename = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml" ;

$fp = fopen ($filename , 'rb' );

$filevalue = fread ($fp , filesize ($filename ));

fclose ($fp );

echo $filevalue ;

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@Khalid_AliSep 27.2003 — it should....I am not way too familiar with php ,but I know that it has some mecahnism to read XML files as well,I am sure you will be better off using that for RSS files.
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@XMLMania_comSep 27.2003 — ROFL - You can't just open an XML file in PHP and expect it to be parsed...

Try: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php for PHP's XML functions.

And there are many RSS parsers at http://www.hotscripts.com

  • - Martin
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    @Khalid_AliSep 27.2003 — [i]Originally posted by XMLMania.com [/i]

    [B]ROFL

    - Martin [/B]    [/QUOTE]

    I beg your pardon, what did I miss that was so funny...
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