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Greyhorne
August 17th, 2006, 07:48 AM
Though strickly a novice when it comes to webpage development, I've occasionally ventured into the basics of html, to meet most needs as they have arose. Currently however, I'm looking into designing a page that will provide listings of specific sporting news, from a variety of regions throughout the country, that will generally remain current, accurate, and update friendly.
From what I understand, there's publicly available content, of which I'm not sure its exact term, that involves the use of coded script, and when integrating into the general design, will provide up-to-the-minute News headlines, or various listings of sports, business and political events as they occur. By automatically updating, through live scripted feeds, and hoping to allieviate some of the tedium, of having to manually update, any and all changes to the site, daily!

Are these called RSS Feeds?

Any idea where these are generally made available?

Thanks for any help with this!

Buzz
August 17th, 2006, 08:23 AM
They are indeed RSS or XML feeds. If you search places like www.dynamicdrive.com or www.hotscripts.com you can find some javascript news reader code that you can insert into a page to display the feeds.

As for where to get the feeds... just find any major site relating to the topic you wish to cover. They will most likely have a feed you can use.

degsy
August 17th, 2006, 10:17 AM
If you learn PHP then you can use MagpieRSS to incorporate feeds into your site

e.g.
http://degs.co.uk/test/rss/bbcrss.php

Here is a tutorial
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78979&highlight=magpie

Greyhorne
August 17th, 2006, 09:14 PM
Thanks Buzz!

Been to DD often, and used many of their scripts!
Will check those out!

If you learn PHP then you can use MagpieRSS to incorporate feeds into your site

e.g.
http://degs.co.uk/test/rss/bbcrss.php

Here is a tutorial
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78979&highlight=magpie

Thanks degsy for the tutorial!

Thought php was basically the code for designing forum sites?
Is MagpieRSS used to customize the feeds?
For instance, if I only wanted specific parts of the update feed for a certain team score every week, yet not the opposing teams score generated along with it?

degsy
August 18th, 2006, 10:03 AM
Depending on how the feed is structured then yes, you should be able to extract the data you want.