rss newbie simple question

cannon303 · Joined: Jan 15, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi I've been following a php tutorial to include rss feeds on a clients site. All works great although not how I expected it to. I guess this is because I am very new to the subject of RSS.

The news titles and links work ok and link to the full articles on the site that they originate from.

My Question is: Is it possible to get the actual articles to display on my site? The site that I'm doing is for a disability rights charity and I need the actual articles to be manipulated for accessibility. I'm going to great lengths to make my site accessible and it does become a problem when you click an rss feed and it takes you to a badly formatted page on somebody elses site.

I'm not actually asking 'how to' at this stage although if anyone knows a good online tutorial then that would be great. I'm just asking is it possible or is it not the done thing to try and achieve this.

Thanks for your help

Chris

seaeagle

I've found the easiest way to get feeds to display on my sites was to set up a free account at FeedBurner. Once I had "burned" my site's RSS feed to a FeedBurner one I then went in to the "Publicize" section for that feed and activated the "BuzzBoost" module:

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Have feed, will travel. BuzzBoost republishes your burned feed's content as go-anywhere HTML. Want to promote your blog on another site you manage? BuzzBoost gives you a snippet of JavaScript you can paste into your page templates.

It will then you give a javascript code to insert in to your page's HTML which will show the posts from your blog.

It only shows the posts - it won't give the option for visitors to leave comments, but it might be the answer for you. If you want to see how it looks, I've got it running on my wallpapers site to show the latest updates.

silmaril8n · Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 1743 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I'd second FeedBurner (now owned by Google) for RSS and Atom related issues. Great product and tons of features at no or minimal cost.