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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Free RSS to HTML PHP Script

In addition to making your RSS feed available to your visitors for use with their RSS Feed Reader, as a webmaster you may also want to make the same feed available on your website for viewing with a regular web browser.

There are several ways to do this, some have advantages or disadvantages compared to others. The best solution is one where the webpage is automatically updated on-the-fly, is easily spidered by search engine robots, and easy to implement.

To attain this optimal solution, the developers of FeedForAll have created a free RSS to HTML PHP script. When used, this script will allow you to create webpages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed, and because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots.

Purpose: Display an RSS feed’s contents on a webpage Advantages: Always displays the most current information from your RSS feed Search engine spider and robot friendly Will run on any webserver that supports PHP Easy to implement Requirements: Website RSS 2.0, .93, .92, .91, or .90 feed

Implementation: There are three ways the RSS to HTML PHP script can be implemented on your website.

Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your webserver and call it by passing the URLs of your feed and webpage template files.
Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your webserver and edit its feed and template variables.
Run the rss2html.php script from a server, passing it the URLs of your feed and webpage template files free of charge.
Pass your feed to the RSS2HTML server which will display the feed in an html format free of charge.

Visit FeedForAll.com to learn more.