Adding an RSS feed

Adding News feeds to websites keeps content updated automatically since you are ‘streaming’ directly from the news from another website! You just need to be familiar with a little php and HTML.
To get started with reading an RSS feed, you need to download the package RSS2HTML. 

You can download the RSS2HTML package from http://www.feedforall.com/download/rss2html.zip . Once you unzip the files, upload the php file rss2html.php to your server. 

RSS2HTMl uses templates to define how the news feed should be displayed, so you will also have to upload the template file included in the package. Once those files has been uploaded, loading an RSS file is easy!

Choose the HTML file you would like the RSS file to be loaded in, and rename the file to have an extension of .php instead of .htm
Then Include the code snippet below in your new php file *MAKE SURE ITS ON ONE LINE*

<?php include(‘http://www.yoursever.com/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://www.searchenginewatch.c
om/sew.xml&TEMPLATE=http://www.yoursever.org/template1.html&MAXITEMS=20 target="_blank">'); ?>  

Let me explain., the first URL rss2html.php, is the path where you have uploaded your rss2html file;

the XMLFILE variable is the URL of the RSS news feed,

the TEMPLATE variable contains the URL of the template which defines how the news feed should be displayed. You can edit this in notepad if you want.

The MAXITEM variable defines how many items in the RSS feed should be displayed. (For more information about items in news feeds, consult the ‘Making an RSS feed’ article)

That’s all there is to it! The php file should read the XML file and display the contents using the template file.

If you have any problems with the above code please email me at kallman at gmail.com