Need a free news script? Any ideas?
Right heres the situation, i have a network of sites offering different services and on the homepage of each site i want a news script but the news will be the same on each site, obviously can be a bit time consuming editing all sites with the same news, so i need a free script that can do this. Enabling me to edit/add/delete and will follow suit on each of the sites.
Bit of extra info:
1. I want the css on the individual site to control the look of the news
2. I dont need anything with bells and whistles, just a very basic news script, add/delete/edit with time and date and be able to insert email and links.
3. Ideally would like search engines to pick up the content on the individual sites aswell.
Yours desperately
Phil
timjpriebe posted this at 16:37 — 16th June 2005.
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Would a central RSS feed work for this? Then just have your script read in the RSS feed and display it however you want to for that particular site.
Tim
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insomniac posted this at 16:52 — 16th June 2005.
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I did think about that, but have no idea where to start not really up with RSS etc. What would i have to do? I do have wordpress installed on my server can anything be done with that, or any other things can i do?
dataNdesigns posted this at 21:08 — 16th June 2005.
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I have used this in the past and it pulls in the content from another server, you just make a page then place this script pointing to it on each of your sites. The only problem is that the search engine will not read it as belonging to your site but as a link from it.
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" SRC='http://www.yoururl.com'></script>
Dont know if this is any help to you but it does work, less the search engine part, else you could use the RSS like tim suggested or even a XML feed.
If you really want to get complicated you could use an automated push from one site to the others via script and ftp.
dataNdesigns posted this at 21:11 — 16th June 2005.
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Oh and with the above script the format of the file it points to has to be in javascript use document.write to show the images and text.
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