need help-want to provide my local headlines to other local sites with links back
I run a local web site and have had requests to put my news headlines on other local sites. They will need to be updated remotely by me, and when clicked will display the information. Probably just by linking to my page rather than inserting in to their pages would be ok. Does anyone know how I can do this.
Thanks.
sgray.
Mark Hensler posted this at 05:09 — 6th January 2001.
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are you any good with Databases Administration?
you could set up a 'public' user, and give that username/password out to those sites
the 'public' user would only have SELECT priveledges restricted to the table(s) that are used for news.
this has many advantages:
they can search past news articles
they can query for the last X articles
they can display headlines, and link to articles
they can customize the news on their own website
while I called this a 'public' user, you would only want the webmasters of those other sites to know the username/password.
if too many people know, others may try getting your news, and you'll loose some bandwidth
That's just how I'd do it. Because I've written news scripts for ASP with SQL 7 and PHP with mySQL, and it works great!
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exbabylon posted this at 05:45 — 6th January 2001.
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i just helped out another guy using a script... and i think it would also work for you!!!
http://webmaster-forums.com/showthread.php?threadid=13166
The sites that want your news could just include this file... and it could just be a simple hyperlink, or ALL of the news! Makes your job very easy... just a cgi... and they can run it off of YOUR server!
For example... they don't have to bother messing with a install of the CGI... just install it on your server. Then all of the sites that want your news just add this whereever they want your news to be:
<script src="http://yourdomian.com/cgi-bin/include.cgi?currentnews.html"></script>The link to what I just posted may or may not help... not very fancy.. but it WOULD do the job simple as pie.. and clean... all you have to update is a certain .txt or HTML file on your server... and they would NEVER have to change their website. If you have any other questions or problems i'm game to help you with another point of view...
God Bless
[Edited by exbabylon on Jan. 06, 2001 at 12:50 AM]
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Mark Hensler posted this at 08:43 — 6th January 2001.
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good idea!
I've used stuff like that before, for (random) pictures on forums and stuff. I just never thought to use it for something like this.. DUH!
Mark Hensler
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sgray posted this at 03:21 — 8th January 2001.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I have made up a little java script that gets the headlines from a small .js file and it works great.All I have to do is update the .js file and the headlines are automatically updated. But how do you display a java script(code) on a page for cut and paste but keep it from functioning.
Thanks,
sgray.
exbabylon posted this at 03:26 — 8th January 2001.
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probably the best is to copy it into an HTML editor... it will brake it down into the proper charachters the fastest. If you don't have one you can just post it here as a code... then copy the HTML it produces.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 07:17 — 8th January 2001.
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if you have an editor that has the 'replace' function..
find '>' replace with '>'
find '<' replace with '<'
that should be all you need
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mjames posted this at 22:11 — 8th January 2001.
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If you don't want to get too advanced, you could use what I use: a JavaScript that I use to display both a ticker script and a headlines box sort of thing. To see what I'm talking about, go to: http://www.sports-central.org/other/extras/headlines
Unforuntately, we have to update the headlines manually, but it updates automatically on remote sites. You can get a script off DynamicDrive.com.
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