RSS Feeds

Hi,

I need to display RSS feeds generated through TeamSite(deployed on the webserver) onto a web page. I have gone through the web in search of that... Is this possible through some kind of JavaScript? or only PHP must be used.

Can somebody point out Pros and cons of both PHP and JavaScript.

If somebody could share the code which when included in my HTML reads the feed and displays it.

regards
Dixit

PS: Can someone please look into this....

Thanks

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kaalraa

Hi,

I need to display RSS feeds generated through TeamSite(deployed on the webserver) onto a web page. I have gone through the web in search of that... Is this possible through some kind of JavaScript? or only PHP must be used.
Can somebody point out Pros and cons of both PHP and JavaScript.
If somebody could share the code which when included in my HTML reads the feed and displays it.
regards
Dixit
PS: Can someone please look into this....
Thanks

Dixit,

Could you please be more elaborative on your requirements.

As far as i know about the RSS/XML feeds there are just in pure xml format and open up in the same on the browser. If you have to render and display each node and its value then go with PHP and use any DOM parser to read all.

msrinivas

I have done it with PHP. There is a lot of free code out there that works pretty well. I recently read a Perl-XML-RSS module. Check it out http://search.cpan.org/~eisen/XML-RSS/

HTH

Migrateduser

Dixit,

Could you please be more elaborative on your requirements.

As far as i know about the RSS/XML feeds there are just in pure xml format and open up in the same on the browser. If you have to render and display each node and its value then go with PHP and use any DOM parser to read all.

Hi kalraa,

The ground work was done and i have generated the RSS feed in the form of XML... With no resource working on PHP at the moment... i was wondering what other stuff can be used... Should i go for PHP or write something up in JSP and do it... The pages on which i need to display the RSS feed can be HTML/JSP...

With time running quickly, i do not have much time to re-invent the wheel...

regards
Dixit

Migrateduser

I have done it with PHP. There is a lot of free code out there that works pretty well. I recently read a Perl-XML-RSS module. Check it out http://search.cpan.org/~eisen/XML-RSS/

HTH

One question? How does PHP score over JSPs in the curent context/ or it does not!

-Dixit

iw_store

I have done it with PHP. There is a lot of free code out there that works pretty well. I recently read a Perl-XML-RSS module. Check it out http://search.cpan.org/~eisen/XML-RSS/

HTH

Srinivas,

Did you use XML::RSS to generate the feed or to display the feed on end users browser.

I think its to generate the feed, not to dislay the feed on an html page.

Even i have a same requirement, please give me some idea how the feed can be displyed on an html page from the server. IS jsp should be created or PHP should be created or A simple CGI is ok. I wanted some ponters on this, to be more specific.

kaalraa

Hi kalraa,

The ground work was done and i have generated the RSS feed in the form of XML... With no resource working on PHP at the moment... i was wondering what other stuff can be used... Should i go for PHP or write something up in JSP and do it... The pages on which i need to display the RSS feed can be HTML/JSP...

With time running quickly, i do not have much time to re-invent the wheel...

regards
Dixit

It does not matter whether you use PHP / JSP / CGI / ASP to read and display the XML feed, it is just the parser which you are using. Check out on the parser friendlyness and performance to read.

Rest all depends upon your requirements, and i suggest you to use JSP as you want to render it as HTML/JSP.

iw_store

It does not matter whether you use PHP / JSP / CGI / ASP to read and display the XML feedTML/JSP.

HI ,

Just few questions,

If I have my taget server as apache-tomcat or IBM-websphere is it possible to execute CGI, ASP, or PHP.

jkm

It does not matter whether you use PHP / JSP / CGI / ASP to read and display the XML feed, it is just the parser which you are using. Check out on the parser friendlyness and performance to read.

Rest all depends upon your requirements, and i suggest you to use JSP as you want to render it as HTML/JSP.

Agreed with you Achin on this.. As per my understanding on RSS feeds will be two step process

1. Generation of RSS feed
2. display of RSS feed

RSS feed is just xml and I think Generation of RSS feed data can be easily captured using DCT where dcr can provide tht xml format and in terms of display it can be any xml parser on the presentation layer.
These are my initial thoughts and any body who has implemented it can have more valuable suggestion on this.

mike_jaixen

Generating an RSS feed can be as simple as creating a .tpl that outputs XML in the RSS/RDF framework instead of HTML.

Displaying an RSS feed can be a little more tricky, if only because there are many options. The simplest way would be to use CSS/XSL to instruct the browser on how to display the feed.

Another way would be to use server-side scripting using ColdFusion, PHP, or ASP to parse the RSS and turn it into a web page.

A third way would be to use AJAX techniques to load the RSS file and parse it. This might be the slowest since the browser must download the entire RSS feed and the scripting in addition to the page framework. You also risk security issues if the RSS feed is hosted from one site and the page and scripts run on another.