Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Xml Rss Feeds

Options
  • 20-05-2006 4:08pm
    #1
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Im putting together a small web site and I want to display BBC Horse Racing results on the web site.

    I want to use their RSS feeds. I have bought web space from www.siteground.com .

    Will I need to install some sort of newsreader to do this and where can I find such a newsreader?

    Thanks,
    finnpark:)


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Gosh
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Gosh


    See How do I get a news reader? - it gives a number of links


  • Options
    #3
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    Gosh wrote:
    See How do I get a news reader? - it gives a number of links

    Hi Gosh,

    Thanks for link.

    What I would reslly like to do is to take data from the RSS feed and store in a database but Im not sure if that is possible:confused: ?


  • Options
    #4
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Yeah it's possible. What language are you using?


  • Options
    #5
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    finnpark wrote:

    Will I need to install some sort of newsreader to do this and where can I find such a newsreader

    magpie rss
    can take in the address of the rss feed, it then generates javascript that you place on a html page, the html page displays the feed. I have used this myself, its an fantastic peice of sotware. You'll need to install magpie on your server by just uploading it and configuring it a little bit, should only take about 5 minutes to have it up and running.

    Magpie RSS requires PHP only


  • Options
    #6
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    Evil Phil wrote:
    Yeah it's possible. What language are you using?

    I am using PERL, and SQL for the database.

    I got this link from William Hill http://banners.willhill.com/xml/ and I want to use one of their feeds to extract the horse names from their stream so that I can display horse racing cards on a web page.:confused: It would be good to take the horse names, race times, race meetings and store them in a database so that I could extract them from the database later to display on my website within a form field.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    Rollo Tamasi wrote:
    magpie rss
    can take in the address of the rss feed, it then generates javascript that you place on a html page, the html page displays the feed. I have used this myself, its an fantastic peice of sotware. You'll need to install magpie on your server by just uploading it and configuring it a little bit, should only take about 5 minutes to have it up and running.

    Magpie RSS requires PHP only

    Cheers.

    Since I am hosting my website at a commericial web hosting company will I need to get their administrators to do this for me?


  • Options
    #8
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    not at all, you just need to upload the scripts like you would with any script you would write for your website.


Advertisement