Email conversation
| From | Jonathan Hobbs |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Using RSS parsing script without the form - have checked email archive |
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| Date | 20 October 2006 20:09 |
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Hi Tarquin
Sorry to bother you but I've read through your exchanged with Mark Keys and
George Fisher and still can't work it out. I know nothing about Javascript
so I had trouble understanding your advice to simply call the function
manually. I have tried putting the importXML function within script tags in
the head, body and html areas of the page but it does not work. I have also
tried the script you gave to Mark Keys for the scrolling parser.
I am trying to use the normal parser and would really appreciate it if you'd
give me a really basic step-by-step guide to calling the function so the
feed will be parsed an displayed when the page is loaded and does not
refresh. Basically all I want you do do is give the complete code I need to
paste into the html document and tell me where to put it.
Many thanks
Jonathan Hobbs
| From | Me |
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| To | Jonathan Hobbs |
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| Subject | Re: Using RSS parsing script without the form - have checked email archive |
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| Date | 21 October 2006 12:02 |
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Jonathan,
> I know nothing about Javascript
I suggest you learn about it before trying to use it. You can use my
tutorial to learn:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/important
Attempting to use it before you understand it will end up with you
inadvertently breaking things in various browsers, without understanding how
to fix them.
> I am trying to use the normal parser and would really appreciate it if
> you'd give me a really basic step-by-step guide to calling the function
Just replace the form with this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var URL = 'http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/feed.xml';
window.onload = function () {
importXML('rssLocal.php?feedURL='+escape(URL),'parseRSS',false,5000);
};
</script>
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/