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Long time no post – so many distractions – my beautiful wife & daughter plus at school we’ve had OFSTED, Naacemark / ICT Mark inspections then there have been holidays in Scotland and much much more…. Plus I’m continually developing the ContentGenerator.net applications – more posts about them in the coming few days.
Thirteen Days ipod Anyway, I’m still looking for an ideal solution for displaying RSS on a static webpage. On my ReviseICT.co.uk website I display the latest BBC technology news in a sidebar. I really like this solution as it continually updates the site, keeping it fresh and current.
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However, I cannot use the same method that I use for the BBC feed. This seems to be because the Invision Board RSS is a completely different format to the standard RSS.
The BBC RSS is in .xml format:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml
However, Invisionboard RSS is in a slightly different format:
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?act=rssout&id=1 – this, despite, I believe, being an .xml feed seems to confuse many of the RSS tools that can be used.
Ideally I’ll have a Flash solution, something I can make available both to use on my own homepages, but others can also use. Exploring solutions that are on offer, there are plenty of RSS to Flash tools, but none of them seem to work with the InvisionBoard format.
Up until now I’ve used the marvellous Feedburner.com tools to display RSS feeds (see the right-hand side) but I really need to customise the display further. Feedburner has so many options, but none that really fit the bill. I’ve also experimented with some suggestions from InvisionBoard users, but, to be really honest, the feedback and support I’ve had on the issue has been really disappointing.
I simply want to display the latest posts on the homepage – exactly as I do on ReviseICT.co.uk with the BBC technology news. Currently, I’m completely stuck! 
6 responses so far ↓
1 Carl // Apr 8, 2006 at 1:22 pm
I’ve had this problem too – On our new website I wanted to have a “Server Status” page with the data from the “Server Status” forum displayed on a webpage. But because the way Invision handles XML it’s not possible – Although vB does offer this.
In the end we have decided to write something in-house, but it can’t be linked to the forum which is a shame
I’d be interested if you do find a solution.
2 Andrew Field // Apr 8, 2006 at 4:30 pm
It does seem rather complicated – I am still certain that it has to be possible to make this easier, but using a Mod I found on Invisionize.com [see http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/5963 ] I have been able to set this up:
http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/forum/recent_posts.php
This page can then be encorporated into my main index pages. I’m not entirely sure how well it works – the main question is whether it picks up the latest topic, or the latest post. Ideally it will work with the latest post, rather than topic.
Nevertheless, this is certainly something positive to work with!
3 Andrew Field // Apr 8, 2006 at 5:22 pm
With a bit of fiddling around, I’ve now managed to integrate this into the homepage of the EffectiveICT.co.uk site – see http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/
4 Andrew Field // Apr 11, 2006 at 2:06 pm
I’ve now taken it even further and have been able to develop a Flash solution – this uses the above techniques but also uses LoadVars to import the data into Flash.
Thus, in the future, I’ll be able to produce a Flash-based automatically updated feature for the sites. Brilliant. See an early version at http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/indexnew.shtml
Now that is Flash ICT
5 Toby Cope // Apr 14, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Please could you post on how you have acheived this. Particuarly on EffectiveICT.co.uk
Thanks
6 Andrew Field // Apr 14, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Toby – if you have a look at the thread on EffectiveICT.co.uk at http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1130 I’ve gone into some depth of how I’ve been able to do it.
Basically, I’ve extended the mod from Invisionize by editing the php. I then get the php file to display on a standard .html page by using an iframe.
Have a look at the thread and feel free to post any more specific requests. The end solution is relatively easy and works really well.
You can use an iframe in any html page to show a page within a page. See this link for a bit more – http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/frames/inlineframes.html
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