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Displaying RSS Feeds on a Web Site Using PHP Scripts
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Probably the first question you have is why go to the trouble of installing scripts on your hosting server to display RSS on a web site. There are a number of free services available that only require adding a few lines of code to a page to display an RSS feed without the need for installing any scripts on the hosting server.
The answer is that most of the free services with the exception of one that I know of, only offer a JavaScript option for displaying RSS feeds. The problem with JavaScript on a web page is that search engines cannot see it. If you want to add content to a site in the form of an RSS feed to improve your ranking on search engines, the search engines need to see your content.
On the other hand, if you want to display RSS content that is not relevant to the theme of your web site, you are better off using the JavaScript version. Search engines prefer to see content that is consistent with a site's theme. So using JavaScript to display the content, you do not have to worry about how the search engine may evaluate it.
The following are some examples of free scripts that are currently available. Before downloading and attempting to install any of these scripts, you should determine if your hosting server meets the installation requirements.
CaRP Caching RSS Parser by Geckotribe
The script installed on this site's server is CaRP Koi which cost $9.95 USD. This script was used to display the RSS feed below. A free version with almost the same features is also available. The script was installed without any problems using the easy to follow instructions. Also, the free version automatically checks to see if CaRP can be installed on the server. For a small fee, they will install the script for you.
zFeeder at Sourceforge
This script has some very nice features such as templates for changing the appearance of an RSS feed on a web site. There is also a help forum that you may want to visit before deciding on this script.
Feed2JS at Maricopa Community Colleges
Maricopa's script is used to support their free service for displaying RSS feeds using JavaScript. This script also has some very nice styling templates. The script is free but you are pretty much on your own if you want to install it.
The RSS feed displayed below is the RSS feed for the Maricopa Feed2JS or Feed To JavaScript free service for displaying RSS feeds on a web site using JavaScript.
Each item in this particular RSS feed takes you to the same page because it is the Changes and History section for the Feed2JS service.
[CaRP] Connection timed out (110)
Feed2JS Updates
Updates, bug fixes, and miscellaneous announcements
Feed2JS Has Left the Building
14 Jul 2006 at 2:32am
For what its worth, since I no longer work at Maricopa and soon likely cannot even access this server, I have moved the primary Feed2JS site to its own domain, thanks to some hosting offered for free ...
Download Support for Podcast Enclosure
31 May 2006 at 1:38am
We've yet to hear any reports of problems using the May 7 update that allows support for RSS 2.0 media enclosures, so we've rolled the code into the current downloads (mirrors have yet to be updated, ...
Beta For RSS Enclosures
7 May 2006 at 9:32pm
I have a preliminary version of Feed2JS running on this server only that is aiming to support access to RSS enclosure media for podcast feeds. I hope I can get a few testers to try it out before it ge...
Feed2JS Updated And Mirrors
6 Apr 2006 at 6:10pm
There is no time better than what is left. With only 1.5 days left before I leave Maricopa, I plundered ahead and updated the source code and site for Feed2JS. The big difference again is if you have ...
Major Feed2JS Changes / Roadmap
31 Mar 2006 at 1:24pm
The first week of April 2006 brings a number of changes in Feed2JS, all to make it bigger and better. First of all, anyone using the primary "jade" server at Maricopa, this server will be going offlin...
Minor Fix for Atom HTML Display
1 Feb 2006 at 12:13pm
Minor update to script to deal with situations where the Atom item description/content is delivered with HTML entities escaped (all HTML rendered like:
<img src="http://www.bigsite.com/cool/pi...
CSS Update Notice
10 Jan 2006 at 5:17pm
I am almost too embarrassed to admit this, but thanks to an email from Keith K, it was pointed out the CSS class names used by Feed2JS are not exactly W3C valid since they use underscores (e.g. .rss_b...
Feed Building Bookmarklet
15 Nov 2005 at 12:17pm
From a idea suggested by Bruce Arnold via email, we created a browser bookmarklet tool to help you build a Feed2JS script.
Just drag this bookmarklet to your Favorites or web toolbar. All you need t...
Beta Test Timezone Offset
10 Nov 2005 at 4:58pm
I've been bothered by the timezone issue of items. The version of Feed2JS running on this site only has a new parameter named tz. If not defined, Feed2JS will just echo the string it finds in an item ...
Magpie Update 0.72
10 Nov 2005 at 3:23pm
We just updated MagpieRSS to the released 0.72 version (some small but important security fixes), and added one more item date stamp piece of logic (Atom 1.0 uses item->created). Hopefully in the n...
Our Clocks Have Been Wrong For a Long Time
9 Nov 2005 at 6:24pm
Thanks to some keen observers who have recently noted a long standing problem with Feed2JS-- for the display of the date and item was posted, we had been using some Magpie and PHP functions to convert...
Pesky Curly Quotes
17 Oct 2005 at 11:30pm
Numerous problems with strange characters in feeds are due to character encoding issues, especially content derived from sources that publish those pesky curly quotes. If your content is displaying un...
Scheduled Outage
5 Aug 2005 at 10:09am
This is a reminder that the Feed2JS server will be offline on Saturday, August 6 from 7:00 AM PDT (check world time clock for your local time) to 5:00 PM (check world time clock for your local time). ...
New Mirror in the Netherlands
2 Aug 2005 at 12:54pm
In just about 15 minutes of set up time, we had a new mirror site up and running in the Netherlands at vindbaarheid, originating from Utrecht, thanks to Mike Platenkamp.As an FYI since some folks are ...
Potential Service Outages
20 Jul 2005 at 6:54pm
Please note that due to some building electrical upgrades, the server hosting Feed2JS is scheduled for some downtime as listed below. All times are Pacific Times (as if we were in L.A.). These are som...
Newsfeed display by CaRP
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