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How to add a Favicon to RSS feeds using Wordpress?

A friend of mine wants to make her favicon visible when people user Google Reader to view the RSS of her Wordpress blog. Anyone have a quick tip on how / where to make that reference? Her current web host is Bluehost, and apparently that is the "icon" people see when using Google Reader. Any suggestions would be helpful. ...

How to run php script on server through command line

Hi, I have created a php script to import rss feed into the database. The feed which is huge (from year 2004 to 2010, approx 2 million records) has to be inserted into the database. I have been running the script in browser but the pace it is inserting (approx. 1 per second) i doubt it takes another 20-25 days to input this data even if...

Convert RSS pubDate to a timestamp

Hello ! How to convert a date string Mon, 24 May 2010 17:54:00 GMT from RSS feed to a timestamp in PHP ? ...

XML to XHTML - Best Method?

Not wishing to be subjective but I have a need to get data from an XML source and convert it to (X)HTML. From my understanding I can do this with PHP (or other server-side scripts), Javascript, or XSLT. My feeling is that it would be more appropriate to use XSLT as it is dealing with an XML source and this is the purpose for which XSLT e...

How do I create a geo-tagged event feed?

What is the most standards compliant way to make a geo-tagged event feed that is also consumable by Google Maps? ...

Is there a silver bullet function in PHP that will clean a string so it's suitable for RSS?

I have a lot of data that contains characters that will normally break RSS. Is there a function or library in PHP that will handle these characters so they are suitable to be printed in an RSS Feed? ...

Problem while fetching xml through some rss feed

I was fetching xml through some rss feed. I am unable to sort items in depth like i have sorted easily "channel -> description" as NSString *resultValue=[[responseDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"rss.channel.description"] textContent]; Above Result: YouTube RSS Feed My question is how i can parse .... item -> description... i.e (Music vi...

Downloading from links in an rss feed

Hi there I am trying to create a directory with news articles collected from an rss feed, meaning that whenever there is a link to an article within the rss feed, I would like for it to be downloaded in a directory with the title of the specific article as the filename as as a text file. Is that something Python can help me do ? Thank ...

Top stories in RSS reader

How do you know what are the top stories or hot topics just in RSS feed aggregator NewsNow for example?? Could you please explain? I am new to Ruby on Rails. I want to build a RSS reader in Ruby on Rails. Could you suggest me some good tutorials or links?? Thanks Gautam ...

SyndicationItem.Content in .NET

Is there a reason I can get the Summary but not the Content of a SyndicationItem. I am looking for the entire post. It appears that it depends on how the RSS feed is configured. Is this true? Can I expect to read the entire content of any RSS feed from the wild? Thanks ...

Trouble parsing some RSS feeds using Java and Sax

I've written an RSS feed parser in Java (running on Android) and it parses some feeds perfectly, and others not at all. I get the following error when it tries to parse Slashdot (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot) org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatParser$ParseException: At line 1, column 0: unbound prefix If I try to parse Wired (h...

While making an RSS reader which saves articles, how can I prevent duplicates?

Lets say I have a RSS feed which lists the 3 newest questions on SO. At 1 o'clock, the feed looks like this: While making an RSS reader which saves articles, how can I prevent duplicates? Convert char array to UNICODE in MFC C++ How to deploy a Java Swing application with an embedded JavaDB database? At 2 o'clock, this feed looks lik...

RSS.xml is only including some posts and not others in Drupal

Is there a way to make all the posts promoted to font page to be included in RSS? ...

Dynamic controls not creating with RSS reader function

Hello, I am working on a test project for an RSS reader. I am using Chilkat's module for .NET 3.5. What I am trying to do is this: For each item in the RSS feed, I want to dynamically create some controls (labels) that contain stuff like the title, the link and the publication date. The problem is that only the first control comes up ...

What is RSS, and how might it be used?

I am a new developer, and really want to understand what RSS is. Any information would be appreciated. ...

SyndicationItem Content and Summary property in ASP.NET 3.5

Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that the SyndicationItem.Content is null some times based on the feed address. When it's null, SyndicationItem.Summary seems to have the text of the blog post. Is this dependent on whether the feed is RSS or Atom? I am trying to get the blog post's text irrespective of what RSS URL the user input...

Parsing a problematic RSS feed on iPhone

I have a small test app that parses a few RSS feeds. It all goes well for all except for one. I scanned through the feed's XML and noticed that it fails once it reached a tag that has "&" in it. So, if I have a tag like this: <like>beer & barbeque</like> The log says that it found a string beer And it crashes with the exception ...

RSS is the web standard for syndicating content - is there an equivalent for syndicating "actions"?

Most websites have content but many websites are transactional - is there an RSS-like scheme where a website can syndicate the "actions/transactions" their website provides? ...

How to make Google reader feed public.

I am setting up my Google reader so the rss feed posts to my Ping.fm account via the ping.fm superfeeder module. I cant work out how to make my Google reader feed public. please help ...

Magnolia RSSAggregator not picking up images?

I'm using RSSAggregator to syndicate content from my Magnolia page. However the module is not picking up images on my page - just the header and text. Why is this? ...