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DesignGroup
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Dec 8, 2005, 9:06 AM
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This really sounds nice and professional. I'm going to play with this and see what it can do.
Just remember that your page(s) for this likely will need to be named *.php. That is, unless you are letting your server parse ALL pages as/for PHP.
And it's and FREE FREE FREE.
http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm
Free RSS to HTML PHP Script
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.
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
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.
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MikeB
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Dec 9, 2005, 5:39 PM
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Hi Terri,
Thanks for the post! 
Every server is a bit different and in something as picky as an .xml file the best thing to do may be to contact your hosting company and ask them about the encoding on their servers.
If you explain the situation and what seems to be happening they should be able to give you a bit more detail as to what you can change to get your RSS feed up and running.
I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, just let me know!
Cheers,
Mike Briggs - Product Specialist
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TerriZ
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Dec 15, 2005, 8:30 PM
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Hi Mike,
I've contacted my hosting company and they were basically no help. FeedValidator.org gave me this info:
>> your server is reporting "US-ASCII"
I've been tearing my hair out trying to understand the tutorials at feedvalidator.org to fix this. I have done every combination of the xml declaration I can think of. I'm stymied because my feed contains:
1. apostrophes
2. links with more than one "&" in them (typical of a news site, which is where my stuff is coming from)
3. occasional < br/> (I can fix this by editing the entries...but if someone accidently hits an extra return when they enter the summary, my feed is screwed...so I'd rather figure out a way that the encoding can handle it)
I've tried signing up to post at the feedvalidator-users list, but it doesn't seem to be working. I've also posted at digitalpoint.com.
If someone can point me at another place I could search (or tell me how to fix it directly!) I'd be most grateful!
Peace,
Terri Z
www.solo-e.com
Terri Zwierzynski
Solo-E.com -- Resources for the Solo Entrepreneur Lifestyle
"..because it's not just about the business!"
Finalist for "Website of the Year" in 2007 Stevie(r) Awards for Women in Business
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Cliff
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Dec 16, 2005, 2:42 PM
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Hi Terri,
Thanks for the updates.
Getting all the HTML and special characters out of the summary is going to be tricky, so for the RSS feeds that I've set I either don't include the <description> tag, or I'll set up an additional article field where people can add an RSS description without things like apostrophes, the & symbol and HTML tags. This seems to have worked well for me in the past.
Give that a try and let me know if that works for you
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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TerriZ
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Dec 20, 2005, 1:26 PM
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Hi Terri, Thanks for the updates. Getting all the HTML and special characters out of the summary is going to be tricky, so for the RSS feeds that I've set I either don't include the <description> tag, or I'll set up an additional article field where people can add an RSS description without things like apostrophes, the & symbol and HTML tags. This seems to have worked well for me in the past. Give that a try and let me know if that works for you
Well, to be blunt, this really doesn't work for me at all. I have almost 800 entries in my Article Manager database. Editing all of them to take the special characters, or creating a new field for all of them, is more work than I have money to pay my VA at this moment. 
I have been posting a few other places, for instance devshed.com and the feedvalidator.org users list. Someone there made the suggestion that since my feed is generated from a cgi file, the cgi could handle the translation.
Is this possible? Can someone here help me with how to do this, or can I show the publishcron.cgi file to this person who is offering to help?
Thanks,
Terri Z
www.Solo-E.com
Terri Zwierzynski
Solo-E.com -- Resources for the Solo Entrepreneur Lifestyle
"..because it's not just about the business!"
Finalist for "Website of the Year" in 2007 Stevie(r) Awards for Women in Business
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ross
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Dec 21, 2005, 9:32 AM
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Hi Terri
Thanks for the update!
Not being an expert with Perl or CGI I can’t say for sure what reformatting options are available from that end. If you wanted to take the publishcron script and have a program have a look at it for you, go right ahead. It’s an open source script so feel free to do anything you like to it.
So you know though, we don’t really have any extra development time to spare on edits to this script so there won’t be much help from us on it. Of course, I’ll do everything I can so keep me up to date with how you are making out .
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Ross Fairbairn - Product Specialist
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soft4you
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Jan 10, 2006, 2:22 AM
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I can recommend Feed Editor for creation an RSS feed. Unlike other RSS creation tools, Feed Editor makes it simple and fast to add content on the fly.
http://www.extralabs.net/feed-editor.htm
p.s. really easy to use.
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