[brent1a]

I am on 2 week break from college (YES! for summer semester!) and I am trying to get my website "perfectly" done. I am willing to be a mercenary for someone if they can help me come to what I'm sure will be a simple solution for my stupid problem. I very very much would like a simple horizontal 470px X 20px or so size news scroller/ticker that can access 1 possibly even 2 .xml rss feeds and routinely update itself. I have poured over hundreds of webpages, demos, and gone thru countless scripts and forum archives even in other freakin languages. When it comes to a RSS live feed embedded News Ticker it seems as though not even one exists. What I do see is a lot of talk about using ASP scripting, iLayers, DOM scripting, java applets, & javascript to make a news ticker that a person writes for his OWN PERSONAL website news. I have yet to see anything that remotely claims to be a News Ticker that accepts news feeds from CURRENT format RSS feeds such as XML RSS Feeds and such. Is there anyone at all that could help me?

[diades]

Hi brent1a

RSS (a subset or "special" set of XML) is not designed to be run/viewed in a browser but, rather, an RSS news-reader that parses the xml and presents it. If you want to, you would have to take the feed and then parse it yourself so that you could then present it in the forumat that you wish.

[brent1a]

hmmmm, OK, in non-technical terms what does 'parse' translate too? I'm sure it is a ridiculously lengthy process that will just make me not want to mess with it at all & make the point of the ticker moot. If I'm going to have to retype ALL the info by hand I might as well just collect my own news and use some stupid little javascript. However, I was hoping for something I could install into my website hit go and leave it. You know, auto-updates when the news feed updates, etc. I've seen these before I know they exist but the ones I've actually seen were on commercial sites like bbc news and stuff. It's like I'm on a **** crusade now.

[diades]

Hi

Parse means to take from one format and translate to another. In this context, it means taking the rss/xml, extracting to data from it in a logical form and then placing it into the markup(html) layout that you need.

RSS is like this:
http://www.webxpertz.net/forums/exte...ss&forumids=88
Open it it IE and you will see the "guts" of the file. You would have to get the data from that via javascript and then place it into the html that you require via javascript and add that to the page.
Some sites may also do a pre-parsed js version (we do) but that is normally laid out as the rss would be i.e., vertically not horizontally.

[diades]

Of course, you could also do a search on Google for "news-ticker"

[brent1a]

I could, but like I said in the first post I'd already spent about 10 hours mining the web for info. I'm tired of searching for something that should be simple.

[diades]

Well, perhaps you gave up too easily For instance, the third entry on that search is:
http://www.worldflash.com/
which uses rss and formats it to a news-ticker

[brent1a]

Honestly I was looking for a -free- ticker........I know where I can get exactly what I want but it's gonna cost me. Looks like I'll have to take one for the coolness of my site.
Thanks for all the advice though,
-Brent

[diades]

In that case, learn how to parse xml via the DOM (not overly hard) and write your own

[newnomad]

RRS javascript DOM, voila
unfortunately he has no comprehansive demos, nor a perfect cross browser solution.

Have you found anything better yet?
I am looking too, but am a newbie in DOM

[diades]

Hi

Yes, server-side PHP using PHP, read the file into an array (multi-dimensional) and then pass that array into a script-block for use client-side. It will then be a plain multi-dimensional array od data only that can be usedwith varying "tickers".