Hi David,
Im looking for a simple script to display news on my site.
i want to write some articles and have the latest 3 for example display the first few lines on the front site , and when clicked take tyou to the right article.
im sure there must me a simple script available that can do this but im having trouble finding one , do you know of any or where I might find one??
Hi Jonny, This is
Hi Jonny,
This is essentially what blogging scripts do - you can post articles, and then the front page of the blog can contain snippets (i.e. the first 3 lines) of the latest articles (most scripts allow you to configure how many and how much of the articles are displayed on the front page).
Have you thought about installing a blogging script (for example WordPress into a sub-directory of your site? If you can make that do what you want - the easiest way to go forward would then be to look at reading the blog articles directly into your homepage...
Cheers,
David.
I want the news to show on a
I want the news to show on a price tapestry site so thought wordpress would be hard to incorparate , thought there maybe a small php script that could be posted on the price tapestry front page.
or is ther a simple way to display the word press articles on price tapestry?
Hi, I've just thought of an
Hi,
I've just thought of an easy way to display the articles from WordPress on the front page of your site....
WordPress generates an RSS feed, which contains the news headline and i'm pretty sure can be configured to include a snippet of the article.
In which case, if you wanted to try WordPress (installed in a sub-directory), I can then show you how to write a script to display the latest articles on your homepage by using Magic Parser (just like the BBC news example here), which is of course part of your Price Tapestry site!
Cheers,
David.
cheers , will have a look at
cheers , will have a look at this and get wordpress installed
cheers