Comments on: Displaying an RSS feed

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:20:56 +0000

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

By: Toby Cope

Toby Cope — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:57:06 +0000

Please could you post on how you have acheived this. Particuarly on EffectiveICT.co.uk

Thanks

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:06:10 +0000

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

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:22:46 +0000

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/

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:30:51 +0000

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!

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:22:01 +0000

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.