Hello All (and Rick)

7.1 looks great and can't wait to install it on our network

I used to be able to display Content Islands on the right homepage of each site within New Zealand's Information Network like you see on the sample sites listed below.

New Zealand's Information Network
Golden View Motel
Airport Garden Inn Hotel & Conference Centre

All I did is add this code



The pages I am using for the Websites is HTML and I cannot see how to use the new code given rss1.xml code to achieve the same result. If you look through the sample sites provided you will see I have made full use of the wrappers that you can display around each individual message board, the way we run our Network is as a group. Every Website within our Network has its own Message Board which points back to the main Message Board of New Zealand's Information Network.

It works really well, however, being able to have a content island on the top right hand side is a great way for each individual Website owner to get their Message Board seen and used. Any help much appreciated.

If you are clever enough to give me a hand in pulling the rss1.xml content from the file to display in a box I would be most grateful if you could post it here.

Feed URL: http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/discussions2/cache/rss1.xml

Maybe

To use the HTML format as a Server Side Include:


or

To use the HTML format as a PHP Include:

Thanks so much. I'll check back later okay? It's 6:15pm here and I need to clean 4 ferret cages before it gets to dark.

Here's my screwy page: http://www.shorthandclasses.com/maxnews/articles/newsltr1_index.html

Bye now.

Threads doesn't come with javascript islands (js); however you can use a php include to call content if you place it on another page; or you can parse an xml feed using an rss reader (which only works for forum data).

For the sidebar data, it takes a lot of customization to get things to display properly when you use the external use islands; I have a small item at UBBDev that shows how to do external use with content islands (who's online mainly), it's in the addons forum in the templates section.

Would the php include look something like this?

<php?
include ("http://www.shorthandclasses.com/newsltr-cal.php");
?>

So in my html webpage, I could insert this php include so it would go to the newsltr-cal.php file and get the php code to make it work correctly?

<?php include ("http://www.shorthandclasses.com/newsltr-cal.php"); ?>

Also, you CAN NOT use php code in an HTML page; .html/.htm/.shtm/.shtml are nor sent through the php parser in your webserver; generaly only .php pages are.

You could enable parsing but that would slow down all your pages and is not the correct way to run PHP pages.

Yes, I would highly advise against setting non .php pages to parse through php as a "quick fix"; that's dirty and can slow things down (as you'd be parsing things which don't really need parsed in the first place)