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  • 29-06-2008 2:11pm
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    banbutcher
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭


    lo,
    im building a site and i was wondering if i need any specfic software to create rss feeds or is there code that will allow me to add them to the site? can i get for example feeds off other sites like irish times? are they free??

    thanks and you'll prob hearing from me again!
    Richie


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    You don't need specific software to create RSS, you just need to know how to write and generate it.

    RSS is a markup protocol, just like HTML is, and needs to be correctly written so it can be interpreted by RSS reading software.

    Generally speaking, RSS feeds would be generated using your scripting language of choice (i.e. php) from the same database source as your frontend website is using (so as to keep them both in sync, or else there's no real point).

    That's probably not the quick-and-easy answer you were looking for but it would be difficult to be any more specific without knowing some specifics about your own site and skills (languages and/or software you are using, etc.)


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Also.. a lot of 'off the shelf' blogging and CMS website software will have RSS functionality built in.

    http://wordpress.org/
    http://joomla.org/
    etc.


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    stevire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    banbutcher wrote: »
    lo,
    im building a site and i was wondering if i need any specfic software to create rss feeds or is there code that will allow me to add them to the site? can i get for example feeds off other sites like irish times? are they free??

    thanks and you'll prob hearing from me again!
    Richie

    If you want to link RSS feeds from another site, like Irish Times, RTE etc check out: http://www.feed2js.org/

    Easy to install and use. Very effective!


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