Comments on: Daily Dose Headlines

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:03:00 +0000

Jason: Yeah, shows how much I know about IFrames. I was under the impression I had to set a height, which is the source of the problem.

With Mark's suggestions, I think I can avoid IFrames altogether, which is nice. Thanks.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 05 May 2005 00:59:00 +0000

Just some thoughts....

1. Use Magpie to parse your RSS feeds (as Jwalk discovered)
2. Write the parsed feeds to your MySQL

Use a CronJob on your server to run the script every hour or two, or however often you desire the consolidated feed to update.

I'm not sure about using IFRAMES, but I've done it using good old fashion PHP MySQL SELECT on the DB.

As for handing out the script, I'm guessing you can just set up a USER as Read Only so you can pass out the script to multiple websites and not worry about security.

I was planning on working on the same project for a non excel site this weekend (central KY blog aggregator) so I'm curious to see what somebody comes up with here.

By: Jason B

Jason B — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:22:00 +0000

I can only see the last four posts from J-walkblog. The font is too big and so the last one is cut off. I can see something and the link is active, so I know its there, I just can't see what it is.

IE 6.0.2800
Text size Medium.