RSS feed to HTML page

[SkGold]

I have a problem to display RSS feed on my HTML page.
I did exactly as in this thread except I am doing it for 3.1.5. Is it working with new version?

I upload these files to the server:
http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/rss2html.php
http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.co...emplate-2.html

My external.php is displaying fine. I took the John file from the same thread:
http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/external.php

I put this code in my html page:

<?php
include("http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/rss2html.php?TEMPLATE=rss-template-2.html&XMLFILE=http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/external.php?pg=new");
?>

My html page is here http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.co...ss Chaslie.htm
The feed should be between Calgary and Real Estate

I can’t find out why it is not displaying the feed. What I did wrong?
Any help appreciated.

[juven14]

Where are you displaying the feed? Some place in the classifieds or a completely different site?

I would really recommend using magpie to handle rss feeds.

[SkGold]

My goal is to display it on different site out from 68C.

First I download rss mod from mods.auscity.com but after I found in this thread that it cannot place rss feed out of the 68C. As was suggested in the same thread I download Magpie and was playing around all day but can�t make it work. There are no exact instructions in Magpie how to do it.

Then I found the thread from Chaslie and it seems like very easy but still can�t make it work. As I described above it is not displaying the feed on html page.

[juven14]

Ok, let me look at the directions, I've used it on other sites but used smarty on those sites so it fit in real nice. I'll see how to use magpie in regular files.

[juven14]

Ok, here is the magpie files in the directory structure I use it.

magpie.zip

Now, upload this as magpie/ at the site you want to display the feeds.

On the page you want to display feeds add this code (I haven't tested it but it should work):

PHP Code:

<?php

require_once('magpie/rss_fetch.inc.php');
require_once('magpie/rss_utils.inc.php');

$url = "external.php?owner=9";
if ( $url ) {
    $rss = fetch_rss( $url );
    echo "Channel: " . $rss->channel['title'] . "<p>";
    echo "<ul>";
    echo "<table>";
    
    foreach ($rss->items as $item)
     {
        $href = $item['link'];
        $title = $item['title'];
        $price = $item['price'];
        $descript = $item['description'];
        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<td><a href=$href>$title ~ $price</a></td>";
        echo "</tr>";
        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<td>$descript</td>";
        echo "</tr>";
        
    }
    echo "</table>";
}
?>

Note $item['something'] = whatever the xml/rss tag is coming from your external.php. Could be image, shortdescription, or whatever.

Let me know if you come across any errors.

[SkGold]

No, it is still not working. It is showing the code on the page.
Please take a look here: http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/testrss.html

I also tried to change url line in you code from:

PHP Code:

$url = "external.php?owner=9"; 


to

PHP Code:

$url = "external.php?pg=new";
or
$url = "http://realestate.allaboutcalgary.com/external.php?pg=new"; 


but still not working.
Do I need to wrap somehow the PHP code you provided when it placed in html file?

[juven14]

It must be put in a php file. Otherwise the php code won't be processed.

Just change the file name to file.php and it should work.

[SkGold]

Thanks John, I will try it later tonight. I am not on my computer right now.

However my point is to have possibility to input the rss feed to html page.
I want to let other people to display the ads from my site on their sites. Just to give them the piece of code that they could input in their html pages. I cannot ask them to install Magpie and rename their files to php.

I guess many News companies doing something like this to allowed people to display their headlines. Is it possible to do it? To wrap it in java or something. I am not a specialist.

It seems like the Chaslie mod made for this purpose, but it is not working for some reason.
Are there anybody that using Chaslie mod, succeed to display the rss feed on html page and could help?

[Eric Barnes]

The standard external.php file will not handle javascript files however their mod might and I am sure Chaslie will be along sometime to clarify if their mod will do that.

[juven14]

Ok, the same problem you had was for both solutions, if the file isn't a php file you can't run php code on it - so the include wouldn't work in the first place.

If they are unwilling to allow either server side includes SSI or PHP then it might be difficult to give them the best looking feed.

There are sites out there that process it for you allowing your users to add a little javascript - but again, you can't control the format as well.

Here is one:
http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php

I've seen some out there that allow you to pick colors and etc as well.