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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 267 |
RSS feeds for releases?
Hi,
Have you ever considered adding RSS feeds for releases etc?
This would make it a lot easiert to find out about new releases with an RSS reader. Also we could use the 'padua' release feed in order to display releases on our website.
Would make things easier because there would only be one central location - CSDb.
/Frank |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 9 |
I was just about to ask the same question. A RSS feed is a great idea. Make several feeds please both for new releases and for all releases entered into the database. (I like to check also the older releases).
I can tell you that pouet.net and scene.org also has rss feeds for new entries, and it's a very fast way to check for scene-news. |
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Perff
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I must admit that untill today I have never heard about RSS. :(
However after a little google'ing on the subject it looks like a great idea - now I just need someone to help me a bit with how this should be implemented. Not how to actually code it, but more how the specific format for the RSS pages should be, and what info to put in them.
Anyone?
Addition to post:
After a little extra google'ing I think I got the big picture about the RSS-format. I'll try to do a "Latest Releases" RSS feed soon, and then you can comment on it, and sugest other feeds.
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Stan
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Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 187 |
RSS is a cool feature. I have just started using it recently to download news from some online magazines. |
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Perff
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Posts: 1679 |
To start with:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/index.php
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http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/latestreleases.php
Note that this is ONLY the very first beta*2 version!! V0.0001 ;) Any assistance in the meaning of RSS-tags are welcome. |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 9 |
Seems to work fine from here. Thanks!
For those using the Firefox webbrowser I recommend Sage for rss newsreading:
http://sage.mozdev.org/ |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 9 |
From Latest Releases Firefox gives me parse error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /dana/data/noname.c64.org/docs/csdb/rss/latestreleases.php on line 41
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QuasaR
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145 |
Opera 8.01 under Debian gives the same... |
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Perff
Administrator
Posts: 1679 |
Sorry... Was altering the code a bit. Thought the online version worked, but I guess not. :(
Now it should work again with a little extra info.
Now perhaps someone can help me a bit. My problem is that I would like to write as much info in the description tag for each item (release) as possible, perhaps even with links to download the release etc. Now this would be easiest if I could put some html in this tag, but I have a feeling that this is not allowed according to the rss-standard??
Does anyone know such things?
I'm still very new to this RSS stuff, so any comments on my RSS-code are more than welcome. If my RSS-code looks strange, or contain errors please let me know! |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 9 |
It seems that it is allowed.
Check danish site newz.dk's feed:
http://newz.dk/rss/
They use html in their description and no problems from here.
edit: seems it's xhtml though, makes sense since it's an xml document. |
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Perff
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Posts: 1679 |
Thanks for the link. That did the trick. :) Now a tiny bit of html is in the description tag - more will come.
Keep this kind of hints coming. :) |
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