RSS for TWG

[Spriggan]

I'm currently working on XML RSS feed for the Timewasters guide.  It will use both .91 and 2.0.  What's RSS?  well you get program that receves any feeds that you have subscribed to and when ever that site updates you'll be notified, it's differnt then a standard newsletter and such.  The TWG version would send you the blog anouncing new articles that appear on the main page.  A person will also have the options to choose which deparment updates they want.  So if you only care about RPG's then you'll only be notified when new RPG articles are posted.  We can even go as far as adding RSS feeds to the "alternate relaties" forum games, so people are notified of posts with the post context itself.  But I would rather add this to the new PHP forum Tage is developing, mainly because I don't know perl that well and don't want to research the code for it.  I should have it working by next week I just don't have as much time as before.  It's not 100% that we'll use it (Fell being MIA has hinderd my ability to talk to him about this),  let me know what you think and convince Fell that it's cool.

[Spriggan]

Well I found a realy cool PHP RSS generator, why code it yourself when you can get it for free.  With the way Tage set up the deparments pages adding this will be realy simple because I can use the exact code we use for listing blogs to tell this code what and how much to place into the RSS feed.  Tage your a genius.

[Tage]

Oh yeah, sure. I, uh, designed it with that in mind. Totally.

[Spriggan]

no I ment you designed something that can be easly used for something that it wasn't intended for.   But I spoke to soon, it's going to be easier to make a standard MySQL query then your getblurbs function.

[EUOL]

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[Entsuropi]

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[JP Dogberry]

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[Spriggan]

I so glad I'm giveing something for you to entertain yourselfs with, but you'll thank me when I get it done.  I'm just waiteing on Tage to get back to me with the database info I asked him about.  But honestly I would have thought more people here would know what an RSS feed is.  So many websites are useing them now a days.

[JP Dogberry]

To be on topic, I have heard of RSS, mainly by virtue of penny arcade having it, but never used it. Being on dial-up, I've just can't be bothered to get into it, but from what I know TWG is the sort of site that would find it most useful.

EDIT: Reworded the first sentence so it made sense.

[Spriggan]

on the contrary RSS is perfect for TWG.  Simplely put RSS is kinda like a newletter but instead of us sending it out to people people request it from us.  Also say you have a RPG website, you can put some Java or PHP code on you page that will display what's in our RSS and it will update automaticaly when we post a new RPG article.

[JP Dogberry]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought it did. BTW, reread my post, that's not on the contrary to what I said

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I have one going for Neil Gaiman's site. I use NewzCrawler.

[Tage]

So I read your email, Sprig, and I don't get what you're asking for. Explain it sometime when you're over at our place.

[Spriggan]

ok