Creating News Feed?

Posted By: suthra ()
Posted On: 2004-Apr-08 07:45

Hi,
Does anyone know of script that provide news feed whenever i input my news. For example, i come across several sites which gives a piece of code and when i add that code in my site i get the news automatically. Iam looking for a script which does this so that when someone gets that code from my site and add them in their site, the news that i add in the database will be displayed in their site.

Pls help
Regds.,
sarathy.s


Posted By: AmeriClicks ()
Posted On: 2004-Apr-08 08:43

You will need three things:

1: The content
2: Some sort of "database"(flatfile,SQL,etc)
3: The script to produce an RSS.

You can try the usual places like hotscripts but you may not find what you're looking for.

I've got a news publishing system that the finishing touches are being put on that will allow this but it's stilla couple weeks outside of beta.


Posted By: Prowler (Staff)
Posted On: 2004-Apr-15 12:19

It all depends a lot on your objectives.
If you plan to circulate your news feed to a limited number of often paid sites, you can write a CGI script which takes the news based on the parameters passed alongside and deliver specific news targeted at the 'subscriber'.

The second method is more general in nature using RSS feed. The original version of RSS was primarily intended for dissemination of News Headlines by Netscape. RSS format makes it easy to syndicate contents. You will find some general information on the RSS feed here: http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271
You will find some general purpose scripts in the scripts repositories which you will have to customize and adapt to achieve your objective.


Posted By: AmeriClicks ()
Posted On: 2004-Apr-15 14:42

Another option if you already have a XML/RSS feed is to use a service like feedwrapper.com to wrap your feed and make it customizable to the end users site.