PHP + Joomla help

[Cylent]

Hi everyone.

I registered a site about a year ago, and it's been sitting doing nothing since then. I finally got around to installing joomla, which was really easy. Here is my situation, I dont know if you would call it a "press release" site but I want the site to draw off of other sites RSS feeds so I dont have to update constantly, "it will do it by itself" if that makes any sense.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[Izzmo]

My friend had a site that does this with news entries. It is a combination between PHP and XML. Basically, the PHP grabs the XML and displays it.

Now, as far as doing something like that with Joomla, I'm not sure

[Taltos]

As with anything coding, the answer to the question can it do.... is always yes. The real question is can someone make it do this in a reasonable way and in a reasonable amount of time/money?

I have worked with Mambo, Joomla's free predecesor. It is a bit of a pain in the butt for this kind of customization. Your best bet is to check out all the modules and addons available for Joomla. There are a bunch of them and lots that relate to RSS news feeds.

I believe Joomla has one they coded called Newsfeed. A quick google search got this:
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1560/196/
Since it is a "standard" module it should plug in pretty easily.

Good Luck.

[Cylent]

Thanks, Ill look into that. The "news feeds" module is basically what i want it to do. I dont supose theres a way to keep the article on my site after clicking on the feed. Like I have a feed already infput, but when you click on the article, it redirects to the authors site. Or would that be copyright infringement?

[Izzmo]

I think that is included in the module. Most of them do that.

[StupidScript]

Yep. Joomla's news feeds _component_ (com_newsfeeds) keeps them on your site. Plus, you can define how many items you want per feed and various other options.

[Izzmo]

Reminds me of my personalized Google homepage