Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
Jeff wrote: I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? Yes. What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? That is one option. Which problem would you want an RSS feed to solve for you? Jochem ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
RE: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
Jeff, This article should help you, it was recently featured in the ColdFusion Developers Journal: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=635 It deals with Parsing RSS Feeds Using ColdFusion, and it's very well written. -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 2, 2003 9:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages? I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? I'm seeing these rss feeds springing up all over the place, and I wanted to jump into it and play around, but all I seemed to be able to dig up was consuming them in FlashMX, not much info on using them with CFMX. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
My browser startup page runs off of CFMX that has a number of RSS feeds in boxes. Consuming RSS is really extremely easy in MX, just invoke the RSS document via CFHTTP and CFDUMP the #cfhttp.filecontent# variable to see what you have to work with. You'll just parse it like any other XML document, and since RSS is a standard format, you can build an aggregator and pass in any RSS URL you want - which is what I'm doing. - Jim Jeff wrote: I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? I'm seeing these rss feeds springing up all over the place, and I wanted to jump into it and play around, but all I seemed to be able to dig up was consuming them in FlashMX, not much info on using them with CFMX. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jochem van Dieten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff wrote: I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? Yes. What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? That is one option. Which problem would you want an RSS feed to solve for you? I was looking here: http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ And I thought it'd be cool to maybe display a couple of the top headlines from a couple of the feeds in a little table cell someplace on a page, linking to the story in a new window... This seems easy enough, but I have zero experience with both XML and rss, so I was just wondering what a 'best practices' approach was to it, and what others did or didn't do when using those things. They seem cool and normally, during the course of a day, we don't have a single client who'd do *anything* with this stuff, so I was just going to jump in and try to play with it for absolutely no reason, except to learn how to do it. Maybe I'll wind up with something cool that someone will say, hey, can you do that on our site? ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
Oops, that should say to XMLParse() the cfhttp.filecontent variable, then CFDUMP it. :-\ - Jim Jim Campbell wrote: My browser startup page runs off of CFMX that has a number of RSS feeds in boxes. Consuming RSS is really extremely easy in MX, just invoke the RSS document via CFHTTP and CFDUMP the #cfhttp.filecontent# variable to see what you have to work with. You'll just parse it like any other XML document, and since RSS is a standard format, you can build an aggregator and pass in any RSS URL you want - which is what I'm doing. - Jim Jeff wrote: I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? I'm seeing these rss feeds springing up all over the place, and I wanted to jump into it and play around, but all I seemed to be able to dig up was consuming them in FlashMX, not much info on using them with CFMX. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jillian Carroll at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, This article should help you, it was recently featured in the ColdFusion Developers Journal: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=635 It deals with Parsing RSS Feeds Using ColdFusion, and it's very well written. -- Jillian *that's* exactly what I was looking for. Somewhere in the back of my head, a little voice said, you just saw something about this somewhere...think hard... Thank you so much! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
oi Jeff!! i sent you email with a link off list. might assist you. Crit -- Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 11:33:53 AM, you wrote: J on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jochem van Dieten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff wrote: I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? Yes. What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? That is one option. Which problem would you want an RSS feed to solve for you? J I was looking here: J http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ J And I thought it'd be cool to maybe display a couple of the top headlines J from a couple of the feeds in a little table cell someplace on a page, J linking to the story in a new window... J This seems easy enough, but I have zero experience with both XML and rss, so J I was just wondering what a 'best practices' approach was to it, and what J others did or didn't do when using those things. They seem cool and J normally, during the course of a day, we don't have a single client who'd do J *anything* with this stuff, so I was just going to jump in and try to play J with it for absolutely no reason, except to learn how to do it. Maybe I'll J wind up with something cool that someone will say, hey, can you do that on J our site? J ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
This CFDJ article is a good'un. I read it, and it took me 10 minutes to get my first RSS feed on a site. Looking rough, but the only work left to do is CSS and making the feed look pretty. Nice one. I've avoided RSS up to now, thinking it's going ot take more time to learn than I have available right now. (I have HEAPS of stuff to learn - I do far more study than my 15 year old son). But I was very pleasantly surprised at how simple this stuff is. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages? on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jillian Carroll at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This article should help you, it was recently featured in the ColdFusion Developers Journal: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=635 It deals with Parsing RSS Feeds Using ColdFusion, and it's very well written. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
In case you hadn't already seen it, I've aggregated some of the information I found about rss on my blog at http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/docs/blog.cfm ... check the archive of last month and search the page for rss I think there were 3 separate entries about it... I'm no expert, but I tried to include references to what I found helpful. :) hth isaac -- Original Message -- From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 02, 2003 11:15 AM Subject: Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages? I'm new to the whole thing, but isn't an RSS feed just an XML document? What's the idea, just read it into a variable then output it? I'm seeing these rss feeds springing up all over the place, and I wanted to jump into it and play around, but all I seemed to be able to dig up was consuming them in FlashMX, not much info on using them with CFMX. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
RE: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages?
Ditto! I was in the same boat. RSS sounded like a learning project for another day but I just grabbed the yahoo one for our site. Like yours mine is pretty rough but cleaning up is easy to do. Thanks everyone who posted their information! Great stuff! -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages? This CFDJ article is a good'un. I read it, and it took me 10 minutes to get my first RSS feed on a site. Looking rough, but the only work left to do is CSS and making the feed look pretty. Nice one. I've avoided RSS up to now, thinking it's going ot take more time to learn than I have available right now. (I have HEAPS of stuff to learn - I do far more study than my 15 year old son). But I was very pleasantly surprised at how simple this stuff is. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the general approach for using RSS feeds in pages? on 9/2/03 11:19 AM, Jillian Carroll at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This article should help you, it was recently featured in the ColdFusion Developers Journal: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=635 It deals with Parsing RSS Feeds Using ColdFusion, and it's very well written. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
