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Lockergnome's RSS Quick Start Guide

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. It is what it claims to be: a quick and easy way to create and use "syndicated content" such as news headlines and announcements.

By Technology

ASP

FreeVBcode.com Display RSS Headlines on Your Site

This is where I found the code I modified and used in the example we looked at in the SIG. While the VBscript worked right out of the article I was not happy with the table based layout so I moved it to a more modern standards compliant layout using CSS-P.

.NET

Display RSS Headlines on Your Site from FreeVBcode.com

This is the ASP.NET version of the ASP code I used in my demo.

MSDN - Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET

Throughout this article we'll learn about XML and ASP.NET by building an RSS 2.0 syndication engine and an online news aggregator. This article assumes the reader is familiar with ASP.NET and XML. Very detailed article including all the classes, etc. you will need to get it working. in a windows installer (msi) file.

RSS Master

RSSMaster is a .NET class library which helps you generate RSS feeds for your web site with a few lines of code. It supports both 0.91 (the most popular) and 2.0 (the newest) versions of RSS. RSSMaster is fully customizable and totally FREE., comes with both a C# and VB.NET version.

RSS.NET

RSS.NET is an open-source .NET class library for RSS feeds. It provides a reusable object model for parsing and writing RSS feeds. It is fully compatible with RSS versions 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, and 2.0.1, implementing all constructs. NOTE: a working knowledge of ASP.NET using either C# or VB.NET is recommended before trying to use this code. See the code samples page http://www.rssdotnet.com/documents/code_examples.html

RSS 2.0 Framework by Jerry Macguire

Now's here a gentleman who got serious about wrting a RSS parser. His not only works on ASP.NET pages but can be added as a panel in Visual Studio.NET

Perl

Webreference.com Using RSS Feeds

In this Mother of Perl tutorial, we will write a short Perl script (less than 100 lines) that retrieves an XML RSS file from the Web or local file system and converts it to HTML. Using a Server Side Include (SSI) or similar method, you can easily add news headlines from any number of sources to your Web site. Note while it says it requires the latest version of ActiveState Perl it was written in 1999 so anything installed after that should work just fine.

PHP

sitepoint PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0

Possibly the easiest of the PHP Parsers to use. Below is the sitepoint rss feed using their parser. Sample using sitepoint's rss feed.

Infinite Penguins RSS Viewer v0.14b

The Infinite Penguins RSS viewer app is a fully-functional, highly configurable RSS/RDF feed reader application that you can embed in any web page The code consists of a single PHP source file for the frontend, and the Magpie RSS Library (versions 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 have been tested) for the backend. You are advised to at least skim the Magpie docs before using it!

Zend.com Displaying a RSS feed with PHP

Good overview of what RSS is and how it should be structured followed by PHP code for displaying it on your site. In the follow-up section there is an alternative method "Fast Parser" by Nico Edtinger

CaRP: Caching RSS Parser

Convert RSS newsfeeds to HTML and show them on your website Generate a javascript version of your existing RSS feed, enabling any website to easily import it with a simple script tag. There are several versions available ranging from free to add-ins to exend its features set for a reasonable charge.

MISC.

MobileWack

For soemthing different think about reading your favorite RSS feed on your Ericcsen mobile phone.

BlogStreet

If you don't have an Erricsen or just want to view your favorite RSS feed on a WAP browser here's another generator. This site also offers a javascript generator for use in blogs or other regular web pages. Another option is to let it generate an RSS feed for your site.

Macromedia.com Building an RSS Agregator in Flash

In addition to Flash you must have the FireFly data components installed which limits the usefulness of this tutorial but it is the only one I know of for using Flash to display your RSS feed.

Maricopia Community College by Alan Levine

No need to mess around writing the code! This form will help you build a feed. All you need is the URL for the RSS source. Then put it in the form on this page and it will generate javascript and PHP I used it to generate the Lockergnome RSS standards feed below:

Java/JSP

java.net

Uisng RSS in JSP pages, while we don't talk about JSP much in this SIG I thought I'd throw in a link for those of you who might be interested or have access to a Webshpere or other server that supports JSP.

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