RSS Feeds...

How do I syndicate (if that's what i'm thinking of...) my rss feeds?

As in How do I take an RSS feed and have it displayed on another page...

any help would be appreciated...

newbie question
ive always heard that term before...what are RSS feeds exactly?

you can do it easily with phps built in simplexml module..

[quoted0185a9bc9="AbSoLuT_xXxEr0"]newbie question
ive always heard that term before...what are RSS feeds exactly?[/quoted0185a9bc9]

RSS = "really simple syndication." You'll find better info on Google, but it's essentially a way to push content. Rather than visit a page frequently to check for updates, a user can subscribe to the RSS feed, which "pushes" content to that user whenever it becomes available.

well i know that there's an atom.xml feed.. If i'm correct, that file updates itself whenever I update (in my case) my blog.

So, I have to use a php mod? If you could tell me where to find it, that'd be great.

Or more information on doing this.

[quotee3f7255a1e="KeithA"][quotee3f7255a1e="AbSoLuT_xXxEr0"]newbie question
ive always heard that term before...what are RSS feeds exactly?[/quotee3f7255a1e]

RSS = "really simple syndication." You'll find better info on Google, but it's essentially a way to push content. Rather than visit a page frequently to check for updates, a user can subscribe to the RSS feed, which "pushes" content to that user whenever it becomes available.[/quotee3f7255a1e]
that makes sense...thx for the help, +kma....
one more quick question, when you say "push" do you mean they send you e-mails and stuff like that?

[quote63bde17039="AbSoLuT_xXxEr0"][quote63bde17039="KeithA"][quote63bde17039="AbSoLuT_xXxEr0"]newbie question
ive always heard that term before...what are RSS feeds exactly?[/quote63bde17039]

RSS = "really simple syndication." You'll find better info on Google, but it's essentially a way to push content. Rather than visit a page frequently to check for updates, a user can subscribe to the RSS feed, which "pushes" content to that user whenever it becomes available.[/quote63bde17039]
that makes sense...thx for the help, +kma....
one more quick question, when you say "push" do you mean they send you e-mails and stuff like that?[/quote63bde17039]

no..

if you use Google Homepage you'd understand, but here's what it does.

It shows you some links, and everytime the RSS [b63bde17039]source[/b63bde17039] is updated, then the RSS feed links will be updated.

So you have 3 entries

1) Newest Entry
2) Entry 2
3) Entry 1

Now each of these entries contains a whole paragraph or more of information.. a blog is a perfect example. Each entry is an entire blog. Now, when the person updates their blog, it will look like so

1) Newest Entry
2) Entry 3
3) Entry 2
4) Entry 1

So, the newest entry is almost always (I can't think of any RSS feeds that don't have the newest post at top) on top. And everytime they post a new entry, the other entries are shifted down.. So their very first entry is at the bottom.

Now, when you have an RSS Feed syndication (if that's what it is, i'm not exactly sure) you are able to choose a number of entries that are displayed at a time. So every time a NEW entry is placed in, it's "pushed" into the top slot, and the rest of the entries are "pushed" down.

I hope that's clear, and that's kind of basic, there's more involved.

Yeah, when I say "push," I just mean the opposite of "pull," as in the user "pulling" new content by visiting the website. Before RSS, "push" was the term used to discuss the concept of dynamically distributed content.

If you don't have an account, visit www.bloglines.com and click on "Add." Search for Gizmodo, Engadget, BoingBoing, Digg, Joystiq, etc. and a few other popular ones just to see what it looks like. Bloglines is a web-based RSS reader/aggregator that lets you view all of your feed subscriptions in one place. It's one of many.

there is rss feed for most forums as well, including this one.

http//forum.freeipodguide.com/rss.php#

ooohhh, i get it now....thats really simple...its just a very easy way to find the newest content available....thx...