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I just wanted to mention again that I really would like those javascript content islands back. I had to hand-code a solution that created them for my BellaOnline.com site. I just upgraded my LisaShea forums to UBBT7 and I now have the exact same problem there. I had the content islands in all sorts of places, to draw people into my forums. I can't find any way to easily "insert" a RSS feed into my web pages. With javascript, I just put in the javascript code and it was simple. Does anybody know how to easily insert a RSS feed into a webpage with ASP code? If not, is there any hope of us getting those JavaScript content islands back, so I don't have to hand code the javascript code into every new release I get? Here's an example - http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/it's not updating any more, because the new version doesn't create them any more.
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If you where using PHP I could think of several solutions; I'll take a look online later (not in the office currently) to see if I can spot an ASP solution.
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It looks like theres a tool called RSS2HTML.asp that can translate rss feeds into useable asp contnet.
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This is pseudocode (intended to be real code, but called pseudo cause I always mistype something)
<?php
ob_start();
include_once( "/path/to/island/news.php" );
$body .= ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
if( !headers_sent() ) {
header( "Content-type: text/javascript" );
}
$body = str_replace( "\r\n", '\n', $body );
$body = str_replace( "\r", '\n', $body );
$body = str_replace( "\n", '\n', $body );
$body = str_replace( "'", "\\'", $body );
echo 'document.write( \'' . $body . '\' );';
?>
This script will take an include-file style content island and turn it into a javascript island
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Well, yeh, if you're going to use php theres plenty of free applets, such as LastRSS which I recommend to anyone wanting to parse one or more rss feeds.
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I appreciate the help searching! The issue is that BellaOnline gets 20 million + pageviews a month, and the promo block is at the bottom of every article. This type of code-intensive solution would be a *huge* amount of processing time involved to keep re-inserting the same static text block.
It really makes more sense processor and time wise to do that once, when a content island is generated, vs doing the exact same thing over and over again every time a page is sent out. So if there's no simple way to do it, I guess I'm stuck again with a mod and with the plea to have this be a standard part of the code. Surely other people were using content islands? I do like RSS feeds, but they are for a completely different purpose than content islands ...
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One would think that using the php include function to include a page with the rss feed and formatting would be the simplest route; either way you'd have to do something similar to insert a js island (if they where available). LastRSS has a cache with it to cache content to halt pounding on feeds. Also, the beauty of RSS is that you can customize the output, unlike js islands. An example, this can become this with some simple formatting/css work (i know the look is ugly, i just threw it together as an example)
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I also want to have the contentislands back. This was one strong feature to drive traffic to your site. I have a lot of external parties that include my content island on their site. Isn't there any plugin / hack available?
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For Plugins and Hacks that's generally a UBBDev thing; as for if it exists, I'm relatively sure it doesn't.
Most sites can use include() to snag external content; or use an RSS reader to syndicate (and with how popular RSS has become there are quite a few options).
I myself use an RSS feed reader on several sites (LastRSS)
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