[Shadow X]

Hello there!

I am wondering how should I approach or if it is even possible on doing this?

Basically, as the title said it, I would like to have an RSS feeds to be send from my forum to my website. Below is the whole idea of what I would like to accomplish,

Forum News Section -> RSS Feeds -> Website News Section

The forum will be hosted in Zetaboards while the website will be hosted in Webs.com. There is one important thing to take note of is that there cannot be any PHP involvement because Webs.com do not allow any PHP.

I have look up to what RSS feeds are and so on, and tried searching on the Internet for this but somehow I just can't seem to find the correct way (I don't even know if it is possible).

Would really appreciate if someone help me, thanks!

P.S: I am new at RSS feeds, so please go easy on me!

[Dormilich]

RSS Feeds are nothing to be sent over. a Feed is similar to a website only that it contains data in XML format, i.e. you get/fetch a feed from a location and afterwards, you process it.

and there you have a problem with Webs.com. you need some kind of processing to display the feed in your website. (feeds are often displayed by browsers and feed readers, which do the processing themselves).

what RSS Feeds are.

[Shadow X]

Thanks for the reply!

I see. Well I thought of this idea because I seen to see some websites managed to do it (Forum -> RSS -> Webpage) in HTML I guess. However, I cannot deny that I may be wrong since I am just a beginner when inspecting their codes and stuff haha.

Since the RSS feeds are in XML format, is there any way to process these XML format to display in my news body section in my website by using HTML or Javascript or anything?

[Dormilich]

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 08:36 AM, said:

I see. Well I thought of this idea because I seen to see some websites managed to do it (Forum -> RSS -> Webpage) in HTML I guess.

that is utterly possible. you only need to be capable of doing the RSS processing.

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 08:36 AM, said:

Since the RSS feeds are in XML format, is there any way to process these XML format to display in my news body section in my website by using HTML or Javascript or anything?

though not with HTML, you can use Javascript to process XML (and thus RSS).

the downside is that it won't work if the forum and the website are on different hosts* (due to the SOP). if that's not an issue, you can fetch the RSS via AJAX and process/output it to the reader.

* - you could circumvent that with a server script ...

This post has been edited by Dormilich: 25 January 2012 - 01:03 AM

[Shadow X]

Thanks for taking your time replying to my questions.

Since Zetaboards and Webs.com are different websites, I guess they are different hosts so using. At least now I have a clearer idea of what is RSS feeds.

This means that there is no other ways to accomplish what I want I suppose?

P.S: Is there any ways to override the SOP?

Sorry for the double post. Just saw your edited post. You mentioned that I can circumvent that with a server script but I have never done anything other than basic HTML/CSS coding.

Will these server script work on a web host that only support mainly HTML such as Webs.com?

[Dormilich]

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

This means that there is no other ways to accomplish what I want I suppose?

to change your hosting provider is the only one I can think of. according to what I read, Webs.com targets people who don't want to (or can't) learn/programming websites (i.e. only doing the design, but not the code). for those non-tech savvy people, there is no need to support user script (actually, it could get quite dangerous otherwise*).

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

P.S: Is there any ways to override the SOP?

AFAIK, that is only possible on user level (i.e. nothing you can do). that's why this is usually done via server script.

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

You mentioned that I can circumvent that with a server script but I have never done anything other than basic HTML/CSS coding.

Will these server script work on a web host that only support mainly HTML such as Webs.com?

I have checked what they support (they do support Perl for free accounts) but whether you can upload your own scripts you would have to ask their tech support. how to do that in Perl you can certainly ask in the Perl forum (basically it's a script which fetches the RSS from your forum so JS can get it from its own host (Javascript (client of server2) -> Website (server2) -> Forum (server1) => Website (server2) => Browser (client of server2))).



* - would you hand a chain saw to a 10 year old?

[Shadow X]

I see!

I have been wanting to change a new free web host that can support PHP/HTML etc. However I can't seem to find one that is good. In Webs, I do not use their user friendly website builder or free theme, I build the layout from scratch using HTML/CSS so I guess I should be fine if I find a proper web host.

I will reach up on Perl and hopefully I can get this RSS feed working because I would like multiple users to post news update in my website too which really helps out alot when I am busy.

Thanks for all the help Dormilich~!

[Dormilich]

Shadow X, on 25 January 2012 - 11:09 AM, said:

I have been wanting to change a new free web host that can support PHP/HTML etc. However I can't seem to find one that is good.

I'd recommend one with a small fee (up to 5 $/month) this way you get rid of commercials that otherwise pay the rent, plus you usually get way more options on a paid host than a free one.

[diablos code]

Well check out godaddy its cheap and has php/perl and ajax
Then your rss feed can be done easy using CURL or Glob etc
Let me know whenyou have a better server and ill help you out.

[Shadow X]

Thanks for the help! I am intending to get Dreamhost to host my website!