eWiki :: NewsPortalRSS

The eComStation NewsPortal∞ provides RSS feeds for every group.
This howto explains how you can include them on your website.

note: www.ecomstation.com has an RSS feed as well:
http://www.ecomstation.com/ecomstation.rss∞
this one also works as a live-bookmark within Firefox

The NewsPortal∞ feeds can be accessed with:

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php∞

You can configure it with the following parameters:

group: if empty, a selection of active newsgroups will be used in the feed. You can specify a single group that you would like to grab:

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php?group=ecomstation.advocacy

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php?total=8

age: set the maximum message age in days. For example, the announcements list is very silent, so it should be set to a high value: 365 for one year. The default is 5 days.

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php?age=30

showall: if set (to anything) the feed will contain *all* postings, otherwise, it will skip similar subjects (for example from one thread) the default is to not show all posts.

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php?showall=1

An example: show a maximum of 25 of all postings from ecomstation.advocacy from the last month:

http://news.ecomstation.com/backend.php?group=ecomstation.advocacy&max=25&age=30&showall=1

If you need a PHP RSS feed parser, we can suggest you the script that we use: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/∞