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    1. 04-08-2008 01:03 PM #1
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      XML to HTML/PHP web page

      Another question from me.

      I have an XML feed (http://www.djdownload.com/xml/affili...ys-electro.xml) which I want to be displayed on my web site - of course this will update my site automatically for me. But the problem I have is I cannot find a way to display this XML contents on my website.

      Does anyone know how to do it? I have looked on 'G to the oogle' but only things I can see are pay-to-convert tools etc. Is there a way I can write some code on my site to populate this XML and auto update when the XML changes? Read something about using Java or an XSL sheet?

      Any help please?

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    2. 04-08-2008 01:31 PM #2
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      if you have php on your site,
      you can just include it into your own page

      your page (with xml feed included) can have whatever stylesheet you wish for formatting

      Code:
      <html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ext-feed.css" />
</head>

<body>

<?php
include("http://www.djdownload.com/xml/affiliate/top10-7days-electro.xml");
?>

</body>
</html>
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    3. 04-08-2008 01:35 PM #3
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      see this for stylesheets with XML
      http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_display.asp
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      Ah so a simple php include would do this lol - There was me trying al sorts of js etc to try get it working.

      I have a couple of php includes on the pages so shouldn't be any issue adding one more. Will give it a go tonight, thanks.
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      it's not ideal

      if 1000 people hit your site in a day,
      then your site will hit the xml feed 1000 times
      (you do have permission to grab this feed, yeah? else you may piss off the operators of DJ Download)

      ideally, and depending on how much control you've got over your webserver, setting up some sort of weekly cronjob would be best
      then you've got the feed locally on your side
      (plus you will be able to do more with it)

      but get it working how you want first, before trying stuff like that
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      Yeah I have a deal with DJ Download so need this on my site - Basically I get around 1500 hits a week, and have a deal with them, that every customer I can send to them, I make money on - an affiliate deal.

      I will give this a go later, I am assuming that there would be no formatting of this feed though given the php is only going to grab the information on stick it in the site?
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      Quote Originally Posted by Adam View Post
      I am assuming that there would be no formatting of this feed though given the php is only going to grab the information on stick it in the site?
      correct,
      but notice in my example above, the reference to the "ext-feed.css" stylesheet?

      you can use this to format the xml elements


      <track> tags into <div> tags
      value of <PreviewURL> to <a href=value>Preview</a>

      etc.
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