was ist rss? - what is rss

[fitus]

was bedeutet rss?

what is rss

[AlleyKat]

There are quite a few definitions, but you should try google...

It's a code standard for snippets of information. Generally they contain a headline and a link to the article - more advanced versions also contain a description text.

Take a look at http://clubtotal.free.fr/ and scroll down the page. This guy, Maxwish, shows RSS-feeds on his frontpage (which is one way to show them), all the boxes with news are RSS-feeds (Security news from Bugtraq, Software news from Betanews.com etc).

I pull RSS-news into my Instant Messenger (Miranda IM - also has my ICQ, MSN, mailchecks and IRC), and either get a 'message' (just like on messenger) and/or a little popup showing the RSS feed.



There are numerous programs (and scripts for homepages) for showing RSS-news - you'll also find it under the name XML-feed, newsfeed, RDF. It's a VERY loose standard, unfortunately - but it's getting better.

[AlleyKat]

Sorry if the pics aren't online all the time, it's hosted on my personal pc...

To really show what RSS-feeds are, maybe this picture from my PocketPC provides better info:

[pSouper]

I have no real idea about RSS feeds but think i understand that they can allow me to read in data so that I may disply it in my site.

how would I go about reading the data? is this something that phpwcsm can do? a replacement_tag maybe that can get information from an rss feed and return a variable?

the reason I'm asking is as I aim to have the frontend images change based on the current weather. I'm guessing this is possible with rss feeds.

any information about using RSS in phpwcms is most welcome

[axelS]

You can try:

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{PHP:your_link_to_rss.php}

Although, I've tried it with a couple of feeds and it only gave me errors Maybe Pappnase or Oliver have better ideas ...?

axelS

[AlleyKat]

You need a script which parses the XML-info and displays it as html.

I know of several mods for phpbb that does just that, but standalone... hmm, lets see...
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ seems pretty mature
http://builder.com.com/5100-6374_14-510 ... isting%20C is the technical description of how-to-parse-RSS.

[pSouper]

thanks guys,
so FMI: phpwcms can output an rss feed format but can not include rss feeds as yet?

[DeXXus]

thanks guys,
so FMI: phpwcms can output an rss feed format but can not include rss feeds as yet?

YES...this is what Oliver says here:
http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2398#2398 "At the moment there is no RSS subscription code included inside phpwcms. To use such external content it's best to use an external PHP script like {PHP:subscribr_to_RSS_feed.php}"[/url]

[pSouper]

thanks DeXXus