I thought this would be useful. Does anybody else use this or someting similar?

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/f...ex.php?s=build

I was looking for ways to get content to my web pages, this might be it. I was specifically looking for a rss feed that would automatically upate mortgage rates, but had trouble finding one.

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Hi

I would recommend AGAINST using any third party utilities for the following reasons

• What happens if they go out of business?
• What happens on your site if they have a DNS hit and their feeds are slow
• It's no big deal to use magpie and put the feeds directly onto your site (and it caches)

By using an RSS feed (which is an excellent idea) you're already tying your site to another site - you don't want to make it worse.

Sarah

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I agree with Sarah. Magpie RSS is great, easy to setup and works flawlessly.

Thanks to both of you, I'll have a look at that.

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Anybody have a good real estate link with the xml/html/php code running MagpieRSS??

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I have a demo at http://sarahk.pcpropertymanager.com/muck/rsstest.php

which displays feeds from http://www.propertytalk.co.nz which is a news and forum site for property investors. The idea of the feed is that realtors and mortgage brokers can have "news" on their sites.

Sarah

I like it. I haven't read through the magpie site too much but I'm guessing that install is pretty straightforward? You don't need a db do you? I don't want to have to burn one if I don't have to.

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flip, what platform is your webserver running on? What type of extensions does your webserver use?

I have one site on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) right now and I'm building two others that are on IIS6 for the time being.

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Well since you are running IIS 6, I will assume you are running ASP.NET extensions? If so, it is really quite simple to write a RSS parser with the built in XML classes of .NET. If you would like I can provide you some example code, but I am not sure that you are running C# or .NET.