php question

sopiaz57 · 07-22-2003, 10:04 AM

Hey guys, im was wondering if anyone knows of a free service that automatically fetches news items for my web site. I know PHP nuke works with xdmp but thats a paid service (as far as i understand at least)

thanks.

dkaplowitz · 07-22-2003, 10:18 AM

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by fetching news items for your web site. I use a couple of freely available modules on my site that get news updates from Slashdot, BSDToday, Freshmeat, etc...

http://www.kaplowitz.net

You can find all the stuff if you follow some of the links on phpnuke.org and nukecops.com .

Good luck.

sopiaz57 · 07-22-2003, 10:40 AM

yea, i want to have a block with one or 2 articles that update on their own, without me manually modifying the html. Is that possible.

checking the site now

dkaplowitz · 07-22-2003, 10:43 AM

Those modules you see on the site (in the blocks on the left and right at the bottoms) are all free. If you cruise all the PHPNuke sites, you'll see a million of them with all different kinds of topics...

I don't pay for any of those. I do notice that certain sites will block you if too many requests for updates come from your site (like slashdot for instance), but that's about the worst of it.

The modules/blocks are ultra-easy to set up too.

Have fun.