I really know nothing about rss feeds, so I apologize if this sounds idiotic. I don't even know exactly how to word my search in google properly for something like this. I have a personal website and I would like to know if it is possible to host the BBC World News rss feed on my homepage. If it's possible, what would I need to do this?

5/9/2006 11:19:42 AM

How do you want to host it? Like a crawler?


Are you hosting the website yourself or is a company hosting it?

You might could use something like this.

http://www.newzcrawler.com/



Just google rss plus crawler or reader or bbc, actually this page will tell you how to do it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm

[Edited on May 9, 2006 at 11:40 AM. Reason : b]

5/9/2006 11:39:37 AM

Thank you. I have a dreamhost account for hosting my website. I just want the BBC World News rss feed to display and update on my site's homepage; since most of my website's content is based on international travel, I thought including BBC World News would be topical/relevant. Just wanted to know if this was a possibility and if so, how it would be accomplished. I'll check out links. Thanks again, I have to admit I'm going into without any knowledge of the subject, so I appreciate it.

5/9/2006 1:53:03 PM

BTTT

OK....someone dumb this topic down for me.

I have a website, and I host it.... I want to be able to have certain RSS feeds update on my webpage. Like say for instance I wanted to have slashdots RSS feed update on my webpage in a little corner say...what steps do I need to take to get it to work? I'm soooooooooo confused between what I need....aggregators, readers, xml...????? I would be eternally greatful if someone could give me a step by step of what I need to do....

5/25/2006 3:13:49 PM

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+rss+parser

5/25/2006 4:41:27 PM

thanks DF...but I just went to http://www.globalsyndication.com/rss-parser and tried one and posted the php on a page, uploaded it to my server and it's not reading it at all...

Also, I'm wondering what the difference is between a parser, aggregator and reader is?

5/25/2006 5:28:22 PM

vagina, boobies, face.

5/25/2006 5:39:54 PM

k...still waiting on some more help

5/26/2006 11:54:52 AM

disclaimer: these are VERY raw definitions and they will not hold up under close scrutiny.

parser - reads the file into whatever you need. anything can be parsed - html, a text file, etc.
aggregator - aggregate = combine and collect, or something like that. aggregators are like bloglines - they parse your rss feeds and put them in one place for you to read.
reader - same thing as aggregator

and i don't know why that php one didn't work but try another one - it may have been the bad one out of the bunch.

5/26/2006 12:56:41 PM