Hi Does anybody on the list know for any more articles on
1.) Creating your own RSS feeds using Coldfusion And 2.) Displaying RSS feeds from external sources i.e. BBC, I tried the UDF in the last post but all I was receiving was a blank page ? I have also tried using another approach based on the article by Pablo Varando http://tutorial208.easycfm.com/ but am receiving the following error An error occured while Parsing an XML document. Content is not allowed in prolog. The error occurred in \testpages\rss.cfm: line 20 18 : <cfscript> 19 : XMLContent = trim(cfhttp.filecontent); 20 : XMLContent = XMLParse(XMLContent); 21 : </cfscript> 22 : -----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2005 21:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: RSS Feeds >I've never done RSS Feeds before. Can someone please provide brief >details about RSS Feeds. I'll be running this on CF 5.0. > >I'll basically be displaying RSS Feeds from a few different sources, NY >Times etc. > >Also can I control how many are displayed per feed? For example I want >3 from NY times, 2 from Wash Post etc etc.. > >If anyone has an simple tutorials they've found helpful. > > >Thanks in advance. > >Ryan Ryan, If you're just consuming the RSS feeds, you might want to try this UDF: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=813 TranslateRSSItems(rssDoc) Description Takes a RSS feed from Blogger, Slashdot, ZDNet, etc and translates into a CF query. Based on the function TranslateMacromediaResourceFeed by Jeffry Houser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Returns a query. Example <cfhttp url="http://pro.blogger.com/docs/example_rss.xml"; method="GET" resolveurl="true" timeout="6000"> <cfif cfhttp.fileContent is not "Connection Failure"> <cfset rssFeed = TranslateRSSItems(cfhttp.FileContent)> <cfloop query="rssFeed"> <!-- only output at most 5 rows ---> <cfif currentRow lte 5> <cfoutput> <p><a href="#link#">#title#</a><br>#description#</p> </cfoutput> <cfelse> <cfbreak> </cfif> </cfloop> </cfif> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208328 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
