"Link to us" page

**wessman** · June 7th, 2002, 08:31 AM

Jorge:

Both items pertain to the "Link to us" page at ZP: http://www.zeropaid.com/php/linktous.php

(1) I've noticed some new horizontal and vertical Zeropaid.com banner ads at the site, but they aren't available on the "Link to us" page. Are you gonna update that page with the new graphics?

(2) I like the JavaScript headline feed that ZP offers for other websites to display links to the latest ZP headlines, but how about an XML version? Simply drop an XML formated feed to, say, zeropaid.com/xml.php?num=10 ... the num variable can be set to any number in a range (say 1-15) by the webmaster to control how many headlines the .php file feeds. This is very easy to set up. I do it all the time.

**Jorge** · June 7th, 2002, 09:25 AM

Wess, any way i can get some of your feeds. reviews, charts etc..

**wessman** · June 7th, 2002, 11:48 AM

Jorge:

That sounds like a fair trade. Most of the music/video charts are Billboard's, but we can't say that cause I already got one warning letter!!! But I can feed them.

1) Do you want all of them, of just a select few? Look at the dropdown menu here: http://www.openupandsay.com/charts.cfm

2) And do you want XML feeds or do you want a barebones page to include in your PHP? I know PHP does an include like CFML does (CFINCLUDE or CFHTTP).

...My news feeds come from Moreover.com, so you can grab those there unless you need a template instead of XML.

As for my reviews, keep in mind that my site covers mostly hardrock and metal, so the audience is limited. But I can drop you a template or XML of the latest.

Let me know what you want and I'll script away!

-Wes

**wessman** · June 12th, 2002, 06:26 AM

Hey Jorge:

You never responded to my above post about what types of feeds you want.

Also, did you know that my NetworkOfMinds scrapes the Google news search? I can drop that into a XML feed function for you too!

AND, you can "search" Moreover's headlines using this URL: http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?query=kazaa&o=xml ... simply replace "kazaa" with what ever term you're looking for. It's not as accurate as a Google news scrape, but it is easier.

Let me know, thanks,
Wes

**Jorge** · June 12th, 2002, 10:38 AM

great, i will look into this today.

**wessman** · June 13th, 2002, 12:03 PM

As far as the XML feed of ZP's headlines, here's an example of the headlines laid out on one of my sites dynamically: http://www.openupandsay.com/news.cfm?weekly=zeropaid

Notice the 3 sub-categories.

Yes, I'm scraping live the "older news" page http://www.zeropaid.com/php/news.php ... so the absolute latest headlines are not showing up, but the XML feed could (should?) have the absolute latest.

**Foreverboard** · June 13th, 2002, 12:33 PM

Hey this looks like a cool Idea. Can anyone do this on their website or does the site have to be in a certin format? this is interesting do you have any other info or sites and stuff on this? Thanks

:fire :fire

**wessman** · June 13th, 2002, 01:54 PM

In order to feed XML to other sites...

All you have to do is follow all the XML data format standards and put up the page. File extension doesn't matter; it's the format of the document output. This allows the creation of both static XML documents and database-driven documents.

In order to receive an XML feed, parse and display the data on your own website...

You'll need script to parse the XML data and display it in your HTML. For instance, you could use JavaScript and CSS (style sheets) to parse and display XML data on a webpage, just be careful of browser compatibility. Or, like I do, I use ColdFusion to parse the XML server-side, but ColdFusion server isn't free like JavaScript, PHP or Perl/CGI. And there are plenty of custom tags/scripts available to parse XML, but I prefer to maintain my own scripts for complete control.

Best bet is to look up XML tutorials in Google, and then if you are already a web programmer, look up XML parsing in your scripting language.

**Jorge** · June 13th, 2002, 05:24 PM

i see wherer you are going, im hoping to get around to it.

**Jorge** · June 13th, 2002, 05:25 PM

i wish i had 2 of me!

**wessman** · June 14th, 2002, 06:15 AM

Jorge:

I wish I was a PHP guru, cause then maybe you'd let me help you on the programming side ... be that second you!

But, alas, I'm a ColdFusion junkie and find little time to learn new stuff extensively. Guess we all need a second "we", right?

...and BTW, there's only one "s" in my proper name. Don't ask about the wessman username and its spelling, it a long story rooted in highschool and a best friend's hot little sister!

-Wes

**dubstylee** · June 14th, 2002, 10:26 AM

See, not *that* sounds like an interesting story....

**wessman** · June 14th, 2002, 11:36 AM

I think Sebastian Bach and Skid Row sang it best when they sang "Sweet Little Sister"!

**psychotronic420** · June 23rd, 2002, 10:16 PM

I would love to add an xml feed to my news website, I use moreover and isyndicate.com for my news feeds.

Wessman I recently checked out your sites and they are really nice I will try to add some links to my websites and generate some more traffic for you.
If you are so inclined and want to check my news site it is at:

http://delysid25.tripod.com/revolution/

Nothing fancy but took a while to code, there are a LOT of feeds inside, done using basic Html and javascript with some xml.

**wessman** · June 24th, 2002, 05:41 AM

Originally posted by psychotronic420
[B]I would love to add an xml feed to my news website, I use moreover and isyndicate.com for my news feeds...

psychotronic420:

My NetworkOfMinds site used to be all iSyndicate.com feeds, but I found their server went down a lot and the Javascript feeds slowed down my page downloads too much.

Then I stumbled a ColdFusion custom tag that scraped Excite.com's news section and rewrote it to scrape BigNewsNetwork.com, which actually is nothing more than a site getting Moreover.com feeds.

So, last year I got access to the Moreover XML feeds and recoded NetworkOfMinds around that. Moreover is the best source, especially if you can parse XML server side with CFML, PHP or Perl. That's when it becomes completely customizable.

The other thing I do is scrape Google's News Search (in beta testing still) using the result URL string. You can do a headline search thru an XML feed with Moreover.com, but it's not as accurate as Goolge and doesn't find as many valid search terms.

Since Jorge is working on other things here at Zeropaid, I'll just keep using my scrape of his news page until him builds an XML feed. :sw