Hallo from the cold...... :-) Have a few hours to kill, so am reading about RSS feeders and I have a question for anyone who has done manual creation of such. How do you get the RSS feed to auto update? Say you create the necessary xlm file with the RSS tag and obviously there has to be a file open>filewrite>not overwrite>filesave option to create an auto update of the xml file. Is this sequence correct? Rgds.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:51 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hallo from the cold...... :-) Have a few hours to kill, so am reading about RSS feeders and I have a question for anyone who has done manual creation of such. How do you get the RSS feed to auto update? Say you create the necessary xlm file with the RSS tag and obviously there has to be a file open>filewrite>not overwrite>filesave option to create an auto update of the xml file. Is this sequence correct?
If you have a static site then that would be the sequence. Usually the rss feed is a script (php, python, java....) depending on the kind of application you are using to run the website, so there is no 'overwriting' involved - the script simply fetches the latest 10 (or 'n') items from the website as a rss feed.
No file open and overwrite. Usually, you delete the file and create a new one (excepted for light and easy XML such as sitemap). Either you do a cron job to run it every xx minutes/hours (for static website). In blog (and other non static website), RSS is deleted/re-created everytime a specific action is done (delete/add/modiy : new article, comment, post, etc.) On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:15 AM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:51 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hallo from the cold...... :-) Have a few hours to kill, so am reading about RSS feeders and I have a question for anyone who has done manual creation of such. How do you get the RSS feed to auto update? Say you create the necessary xlm file with the RSS tag and obviously there has to be a file open>filewrite>not overwrite>filesave option to create an auto update of the xml file. Is this sequence correct?
If you have a static site then that would be the sequence. Usually the rss feed is a script (php, python, java....) depending on the kind of application you are using to run the website, so there is no 'overwriting' involved - the script simply fetches the latest 10 (or 'n') items from the website as a rss feed. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AopdHkqSqKL-dHlQVTMxU1VBdU1BSWJxdy1f... ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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