RSS feed displayed on static html website

[FHM]

I am a bit stuck with a project.

I have a simple website consisting of a few static html pages. On the frontpage, I would like to display the latest posts from my blogs RSS feed.

How do I go about this? Is it possible to code something in html that will display the RSS feed?

(Disclaimer: I am most definitely a coding noob who is just experimenting a little with html to get wiser).

[Bagi Zoltán]

The solution I will describe will work only on apache server where mod rewrite is enabled.
As first step you need to add this line to your .htaccess file

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

this will make your frontpage executed as a php script. Now go for an rss parser script. You may want to use rss2html since it is very easy to implement, but carp or magpierss will do the job as well. You need to add the URL of the rss to the configuration file of the parser and call the file as any other php file, using the php include function.

PHP Code:

<?php include('rss-parser.php'); ?>

[FHM]

Thanks for the thorough description. I will go to work on it right away.

[iisbum]

If you're unable to do what is described above, you could use Javascript to display the contents of the RSS feed. Its not a great solution, but might work for you.

Just do a search for "Javascript RSS" on google and you'll get lots of pages explaining how to do it.

[FHM]

iibum,

Thanks for the advice. I had already stumbled upon the javascript possibility, when researching further on the subject.

Right now, I am weighing ease of use against showing the links to the search engines.

[ryukenden]

Use following website tool

www.myfreefeed.com

You can easily create the code within seconds to put into your html pages. This is ready made. You just put your rss link and all the job will be done for you.

[youthx]

Coffeecup are pretty gud for beginner software like rss just to gt you on your feet.