Posting data from my site to other sites

raverboy

I'v made an site with IT news, and now i whant to be able to offer to webmasters a script to theirs' sites for accesing latest news on my site. Does any one know where to find an example?
Your halp will be verry aprecieted..

uniflare

a few years back i used to enjoy playing a delta force game, and while i was i looking for website containing downlaods etc and came across a website called "Novaworld.com", they used a "JavaScript" file that had a ticker that went by and fed the information to anyone that made an include to that js file...

Its the only idea i have come up with... but you would need to update the js fiole when u update the news, and if u dont use your own news script then its going to b difficult... but novaworld did it, so u can too 😉

LordShryku

Some of the more popular sites like Amazon and Slashdot have gone on to offer XML files to be downloaded that will allow people to download the newest headlines and links to the sites. I would suggest trying something like this. It's low bandwidth, easily updatable, and easily parsed on the other ends. Here's an example :http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml

raverboy

🙁 You are verry close to what i'm loking for...
I had seen many sites that offer a script to implemt in HTML to have something like news, curency, wether.. etc..
the script you have to implement in html page is like this:
<script language="Javascript" src="http://www.thesitewithdata.ro/ascript.php?something"</script>.
Now, i have tryed to acces a php script in this way, but dosent work, so to be more specific, i what to know how to do
ascript.php
wrigh now ascrip.php is looking like this:

<?
include ("./dbconnect.php");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM articole WHERE stare='1' ORDER BY 'id' DESC LIMIT 0,10";
$result = mysql_query ($sql);
echo "<center><a href='http://www.itportal.ro/' target='itportal'><img src='http://www.itportal.ro/img/logo.gif' border=0></a></center><br>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$id=$row["id"];
$titlu=$row["titlu"];
$titlu = str_replace("\"", "'", $titlu);
echo "<li><a class=ITP href='http://www.itportal.ro/index.php?id=".trim($id)."' target='itportal'>".trim($titlu)."</a><br>";
}
echo "<br>";
?>
and is working if is accesed directly.

uniflare

You cant include a php file to another server (u can but is difficult), i meant something like this: <script language="Javascript" src="http://www.thesitewithdata.ro/newsticker.js"</script>

the newsticker.js file would have all the info needed, and to b simply put that in the place where u want it to b displayed would b easy, LordShryku had a good point, but then not every can program PHP, or even knows what xml is... in my opinion, .js files are the best way to go...

raverboy

Ok... but, now comes the second part of the problem.
The newsticker.js have to have all data in it. The data on my site is stored in a MySql database, how do i red the data from newsticker.js ? What i'm thinking abot that model of inclusion, is
the script may be strucutred something like this:
<?
some php code
?>
<script language="javascript">
document.write ( <nonscript> <?some php code again?> </nonscript>)
</script>
but it was a huge failure... 🙁 i don't know to much about javascript, hope this example of code wasn't an example of stupidity.
About LordShryku's (10x for help LordShryku) ideea, is a good one, but you have wright, and the bigest request for this code is to be inculded on HTML sites, widouth PHP suport.

LordShryku

Well, there are many ways of parsing an XML file. PHP just happens to be what I wrote my code in. This could also be done with almost any other languade that has the ability to open files, Perl probably being the most common.

uniflare

What i mean is that when you submit the news to view publicly then ticker would be updated with the news...

You would have to first have a js file like this:

//Translucent scroller- By Dynamic Drive
//For full source code and more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
//This credit MUST stay intact for use

var scroller_width='100%'
var scroller_height='30'
var bgcolor='#002D4D'
var pause=5000 //SET PAUSE BETWEEN SLIDE (3000=3 seconds)

var scrollercontent=new Array()
//Define scroller contents. Extend or contract array as needed
//mcd1
scrollercontent[0]='<div align="center" valign="middle" width="100%" height="100%">Microsoft Finds a worm in the basement! - <a class="news_scroller" href="index.php?shownews=yes&articleid=1">Read More!</a></div>'
scrollercontent[1]='<div align="center" valign="middle" width="100%" height="100%">Netwrk Opens Doors! - <a class="news_scroller" href="index.php?shownews=yes&articleid=2">Read More</a></div>'
scrollercontent[2]='<div align="center" valign="middle" width="100%" height="100%">GZ\'s New Bouncers Arive! - <a class="news_scroller" href="index.php?shownews=yes&articleid=3">Read More</a></div>'
//mcd1
////NO need to edit beyond here/////////////

var ie4=document.all
var dom=document.getElementById&&navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1

if (ie4||dom)
document.write('<div style="position:relative;width:'+scroller_width+';height:'+scroller_height+';overflow:hidden"><div id="canvas0" style="position:absolute;background-color:'+bgcolor+';width:'+scroller_width+';height:'+scroller_height+';top:'+scroller_height+';filter:alpha(opacity=20);-moz-opacity:0.2;"></div><div id="canvas1" style="position:absolute;background-color:'+bgcolor+';width:'+scroller_width+';height:'+scroller_height+';top:'+scroller_height+';filter:alpha(opacity=20);-moz-opacity:0.2;"></div></div>')
else if (document.layers){
document.write('<ilayer id=tickernsmain visibility=hide width='+scroller_width+' height='+scroller_height+' bgColor='+bgcolor+'><layer id=tickernssub width='+scroller_width+' height='+scroller_height+' left=0 top=0>'+scrollercontent[0]+'</layer></ilayer>')
}

var curpos=scroller_height*(1)
var degree=10
var curcanvas="canvas0"
var curindex=0
var nextindex=1

function moveslide(){
if (curpos>0){
curpos=Math.max(curpos-degree,0)
tempobj.style.top=curpos+"px"
}
else{
clearInterval(dropslide)
if (crossobj.filters)
crossobj.filters.alpha.opacity=100
else if (crossobj.style.MozOpacity)
crossobj.style.MozOpacity=1
nextcanvas=(curcanvas=="canvas0")? "canvas0" : "canvas1"
tempobj=ie4? eval("document.all."+nextcanvas) : document.getElementById(nextcanvas)
tempobj.innerHTML=scrollercontent[curindex]
nextindex=(nextindex<scrollercontent.length-1)? nextindex+1 : 0
setTimeout("rotateslide()",pause)
}
}

function rotateslide(){
if (ie4||dom){
resetit(curcanvas)
crossobj=tempobj=ie4? eval("document.all."+curcanvas) : document.getElementById(curcanvas)
crossobj.style.zIndex++
if (crossobj.filters)
document.all.canvas0.filters.alpha.opacity=document.all.canvas1.filters.alpha.opacity=20
else if (crossobj.style.MozOpacity)
document.getElementById("canvas0").style.MozOpacity=document.getElementById("canvas1").style.MozOpacity=0.2
var temp='setInterval("moveslide()",50)'
dropslide=eval(temp)
curcanvas=(curcanvas=="canvas0")? "canvas1" : "canvas0"
}
else if (document.layers){
crossobj.document.write(scrollercontent[curindex])
crossobj.document.close()
}
curindex=(curindex<scrollercontent.length-1)? curindex+1 : 0
}

function resetit(what){
curpos=parseInt(scroller_height)*(1)
var crossobj=ie4? eval("document.all."+what) : document.getElementById(what)
crossobj.style.top=curpos+"px"
}

function startit(){
crossobj=ie4? eval("document.all."+curcanvas) : dom? document.getElementById(curcanvas) : document.tickernsmain.document.tickernssub
if (ie4||dom){
crossobj.innerHTML=scrollercontent[curindex]
rotateslide()
}
else{
document.tickernsmain.visibility='show'
curindex++
setInterval("rotateslide()",pause)
}
}

if (ie4||dom||document.layers)
window.onload=startit

The code in betweek the //mcd1 comments is the content to be displayed... This is actually a .js file that im using at the moment, it transitions and fade but doesn't work to well in netscape...

First you would use something like:

$array1 = explode("//mcd1",$fopen("filename.js", "a+"))
Then your content data would be $array1[1], then you can use every function to replace/add/remove news...

I have already started on example code, this code will show you whats in the news file that moment, please look at the code and take it into note, its quite a highly used way for finding things you need...

<?php

$scroller_file = implode("\n",file("scroller.js"));			// Get the scroller.js file

$scroller_arr1 = explode("//mcd1",$scroller_file);			// Get the 3 array (FIXED-NEWS-FIXED)
$scroller_news = $scroller_arr1[1];				// Get the 2nd array (NEWS)
$scoller_news = str_replace("\'","=+~+=",$scroller_news);		// Makes sure there are no implications with '
$scroller_arr2 = explode("'",$scroller_news);			// Gets the actuall content data (with extra: FIXED-NEWS etc...)

for($i=0;$i<count($scroller_arr2);$i++)				// Loop Through The Results
{
	if(($i + 1) % 2 == 0)					// Checks to see if the result is a NEWS or a FIXED text
	{
		$content_str .= $scroller_arr2[$i]."'~'";		// If its a NEWS text it adds it to a str seperated by "~"
	}
}

$content_arr = explode("'~'",$content_str);			// Explode "~" into an array to be shown
foreach($content_arr as $val){					// Loops through the different news texts
echo(str_replace("=+~+=","\'",$val)); }				// Replaces the anti-implication str with the ' and echos the results

?>

I commented on all the variables etc to help you understand my wierd code a bit better... i hope this helps 😉

uniflare

Of Course, you may have explored this option... but what you could do is make a different page, with just the news on... then people could add an iframe to their website, and you could make the script so they can use the $_GET variables (?blah=blah) to make the page look like their own, like background image/color/font-color/tablewidth/tableheight/font-size etc, it would be a much simpler way 😉

raverboy

Ok, thanks, i will try it i didn't have time to redit wright now, but i will