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Free RSS to HTML PHP Script
Get Off Your RSS!
Free Download PHP Script
- Option 1
1. Download free rss2html.php Script and Run on
Your Server
Documentation;
Download
Option 2
2. Download free rss2html.php script on your webserver and
edit its feed and template variables
Documentation;
Download
Option 3
3. Run the rss2html.php script from a server, passing it the
URLs of your feed and webpage template files this service is
hosted at rss2html.com
Documentation
Option 4
4. Select a template, color scheme and enter your url to have
your RSS feed displayed free of charge on rss2html.com
Display Feeds as HTML
Free RSS to HTML PHP Script
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In
addition to making your RSS feed available to your visitors
for use with their RSS Feed Reader, as a webmaster you may
also want to make the same feed available on your website
for viewing with a regular web browser. There are several
ways to do this, some have advantages or disadvantages
compared to others. The best solution is one where the
webpage is automatically updated on-the-fly, is easily
spidered by search engine robots, and easy to implement.
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To
attain this optimal solution, the developers of FeedForAll
have created a free RSS to HTML PHP script. When used, this
script will allow you to create webpages that will always
display the most current information from your RSS feed, and
because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a
format friendly to search engine robots. Purpose: Display an
RSS feed's contents on a webpage Advantages: Always displays
the most current information from your RSS feed Search
engine spider and robot friendly Will run on any webserver
that supports PHP Easy to implement Requirements: Website
RSS 2.0, .93, .92, .91, or .90 feed
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Implementation: There are three ways the RSS to HTML PHP
script can be implemented on your website.
1.) Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your
webserver and call it by passing the URLs of your feed and
webpage template files.
2.) Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your
webserver and edit its feed and template variables 3.) Run
the rss2html.php script from a server, passing it the URLs
of your feed and webpage template files free of charge.
4.) Pass your feed to the RSS2HTML server which will display
the feed in an html format free of charge.
Get Off Your RSS!
- Did you ever look at the daily reads list from a
well-written Weblog? Some of those lists are insanely long,
often containing more sites than most people read in a
month! The crazy thing? When you read these Weblogs, you see
their authors reacting and debating with many other Weblogs
and sites. How do people keep track of it all? How can
anyone manage to hold down a job while still checking so
many sites so frequently?
- They aggregate.
- Most Weblogs (including the
SitePoint Weblogs), publish content through
RSS as well as
HTML. Unlike HTML, which defines document layout, RSS
merely records raw documents in
XML. Software can then download the RSS feed and format
it as needed. Thus, RSS provides:
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- an easy way to syndicate content to other sites
- a layout-independent way of serving content
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- Sites like SitePoint use it for more than Weblogs. Even
the main articles are syndicated. New and interesting
uses for RSS are constantly popping up from traditional
publications like
the BBC,
Wired Magazine, and
Yahoo! News, to other information sources, like the
State of California's
Emergency Digital Information Service.
- RSS aggregators will download the latest RSS feed from
the sites you specify, displaying the latest articles,
postings, and news items. Here's the cool part: by listing
all the articles from all the sites in one place,
aggregators free you to read or reject articles quickly.
Normally, you might load a site only to find that there are
no new postings. With an aggregator, you see the new
postings as they come up.
- Many aggregators will also list comments attached to
main news items and blog posts. When you start browsing the
world in RSS, your whole way of using the Web changes.
Instead of pages and search engines, the Web becomes a world
of interconnected ideas, a sphere of discussion linked in
real, meaningful ways.
- Here's a quick rundown of popular RSS aggregating
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Desktop Aggregators
- If you want to keep track of many Weblogs at once
without having to open a million browser windows, then you
need one of these tools.
- Windows
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SharpReader is a great, free RSS tool that will display
your favorite news and blogs in a variety of layouts,
including a nifty threaded view for discussions. If you run
a blog yourself, you can even install a WYSIWYG blog editor
plugin. The editor works with blogger- and metaWeblog-compatible
software.
- Spend your life in Outlook?
News Gator might be just the thing for you, but it'll
cost you a few dollars. This tool integrates RSS feeds into
Outlook.
- OS X
- If you're a Mac enthusiast, you have several options.
MulleNewz will give you easy access to news feeds from
the Dock. Others swear by the winner of the OS X Innovator
of the year (2003) award,
NetNewsWire, a commercial RSS/Weblog tool, or its
freeware baby brother,
NetNewsWire Lite.
- If you want an Open Source solution on
OSX, read the section below on browser-based readers.
- GNU/Linux
- Numerous RSS aggregators run on GNU/Linux, but
Straw wins easily. Keeping track of recent postings is
easy with its simple, powerful, email-like interface.
- Mobile Phones
- If you're so addicted you need to read RSS articles on
the go, check to see if your phone will run
MobileRSS. Don't have the latest phone? Well, maybe
that's a good thing...
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Blogging Tools
- Participating in the Weblog world is twice as much fun
as reading. These tools combine Website editing features
with RSS newsreading:
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Radio FM provides a great Windows application for
editing your blog and reading newsfeeds. Simple, fast, and
convenient, it's worth the money.
- If you're looking for an open source equivalent, try
Python Desktop Server, a Radio Userland clone with a Web
interface.
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Tinderbox, a great OS X hypertext/blogging tool,
includes an RSS aggregator. In Tinderbox, you can connect
RSS documents with your notes, TODOs, flowcharts, and blog
postings.
- Browser Based
- If you don't want to install a new application or
clutter your desktop with yet more windows, try one of these
browser plugins:
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News Monster is a fabulous RSS tool for
Mozilla. This cross-platform tool does everything you'd
expect, and more! The Monster tightly integrates with
Mozilla, and it can track postings and discussion threads.
News Monster will even help you find new Weblogs by finding
out what blogs are read by the authors you read.
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An RSS Reader Panel also exists for Mozilla's
lightweight
Firefox browser. Rather than implement a new dialog,
this nifty plugin works within the bookmarks toolbar,
creating an automatically-updating set of bookmarks to new
articles.
- Web Based
- If you jump from computer to computer, or you want to
synchronize your newsfeed reading between home and work,
installing a Web-based RSS reader is the best way to go.
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Feed on Feeds is an easy-to-install PHP script that
should work on most Web servers. Simple, but in a good way.
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Amphetadesk is a more sophisticated, cross-platform
Perl solution that includes a built-in Web server for
those without Web hosting.
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Integrating Into Your Site
- If you want to include an RSS aggregator in your Website
or Web application, check out these articles on SitePoint:
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Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web
Apps
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PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0
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Conclusion
- To enter the world of RSS is start reading content
again. Aggregators provide a great way to keep in touch with
what's going on without losing touch with the real world.
Enjoy!
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