RSS feed in articles not blocks???

[Uber_Tiny]

I am not an HTML wiz kid so I will ask here. Yes I have looked everywhere for others that may want this but found nothing in the search that has to do with my situation, so here goes.

I am using
SMF 1.1.1
TinyPortal v0.9.6beta

I was wondering if there is a way or if someone could help me out with the HTML on how to install an RSS feed into a article. I have tryd different ways but to no avail. Reason being is that I have it set up to where when I write a new article it places the link in the block I set up for it's category. I don't want to show the RSS feed on the main page as it takes up way to much space and they also tend to slow the site down being on the main page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh and maybe a suggestion for feature TP setup to allow you to pick if you want an RSS feed when making an article.

[G6Cad]

Have you tried to convert the RSS to html script and then used the converted feed in to a script in an article ?

IF you have the RSS feed, you can go here and convert the feed to other code formats.
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/p/138.html

[Thurnok]

That's a very cool site.  And a great suggestion.  Since you can use javascript in Articles, I think that will probably give you exactly what you need.  Let us know how it turns out so others might do the same. 

[Uber_Tiny]

Have you tried to convert the RSS to html script and then used the converted feed in to a script in an article ?

IF you have the RSS feed, you can go here and convert the feed to other code formats.
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/p/138.html

Thanks for that link. But it didn't seem to work. 

This is the code I get from them.

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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://convert.rss-to-javascript.com/?simple_chan=1&desc=1&src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fobject%2Frss_nvidia_pressroom">
</script><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript. <a title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter' href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/?p=151,381&simple_chan=1&desc=1&src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fobject%2Frss_nvidia_pressroom&as_html=1>Click to read the latest news</a>.</noscript>
<a href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com target=_blank title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter'><img src=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/images/rss-to-jss-small.gif alt='RSS to JavaScript' border=0></a>


Is there something I am missing that needs to be edited in that to make it work cause this is what it does on my site. LINK

[Lesmond]

heres one I use in a article (php)
Just change the feed to the one you want near the top of the code

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// An RSS Reader to grab news from whichever site you choose
$backend = "http://rss.thisis.co.uk/ThisIsLeicestershire/LocalNews.rss"; //change this to match the rss feed url you wish to display.
// end


function endtheElement($parser, $tagName) {
// This function is used when an end-tag is encountered.
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
 
  if ($tagName == "ITEM") {
    echo '<table width="100%" border="0"><tr>
      <td class="main-table">
      <span class="nav-head"><strong>
      ';
    printf("<p><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></p>", // make our title into an actual link
    trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title))); // remove html characters from the title
 
    echo "</tr>";
    echo '<tr>
      <td class="nav">';
    printf("<p>%s</p>",$description); // Print out the live journal entry
    echo"</td>";
    echo "</tr>";
    echo "</table>";
    echo "<br>";
    $title = $description = $link = $insideitem = false;
   }
}

// Now to the parsing itself. Starts by creating it:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

// Then setup the handlers:

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open the actual datafile:

$fp = fopen($backend, r);

// Run through it line by line and parse:

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
    or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
           xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
           xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

// Close the datafile

fclose($fp);

// Free any memmory used

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

[Thurnok]

Les has a good one.

There are a number of RSS feed blocks in the block code snippets area that look like they could work in an article, or modified to work in an article as well, even if they say they are for a center block or something.

But Les has a working one, that's probably your best bet to try out anyway.

[Uber_Tiny]

Awesome Lesmond!!  :up: :up:

That worked...thank you very very much!!

[Crip]

Lesmond Rocks!

[Gidget]

Hi Lesmond

Thanks for the code 

Is it possible to add something to the php article to format the output a bit differently?

I just want to have the titles in bold and a one line gap between each story, but I can't figure out how to do it (or if it is possible to do it).

Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas

Gidget

[Lesmond]

Gidget I cant help you with that, not much good with PHP, but I am a expert with copy and paste

And a Merry Christmas to you