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was bedeutet rss?

what is rss

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.

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:

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

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

axelS

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.

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

pSouper wrote: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]

thanks DeXXus