RSS News Feeds

[phpnewb]

I am looking for some good free RSS news feeds that can be used for commercial use since my site will contain ads. Anyone know of any good ones to recommend.

[phpnewb]

any help would be much appreciated

[mlseim]

Are you talking about displaying RSS Feeds on your site from other sites using PHP,

or

Creating Feeds FROM your site using PHP.

I'm having trouble knowing if you mean Feed Reader or RSS Feeder.

There are free PHP solutions for both.

[phpnewb]

I was thinking about using them from other sites, but if you have a better idea, then I am all ears.

[mlseim]

You need to know the URL of their feed.
Give me one and I'll show you a PHP example of
how you can read it and use it anywhere on your page.

I'm assuming you know some PHP and have the extension
of .php on your page. If your site contains ads, is it a free
webhost? They may not allow PHP.

[phpnewb]

I was wondering if anyone knew of any good ones. My site is still in development so it is not online yet but I will be using paid hosting.

[mlseim]

An RSS feed can be anything ... whatever any particular site offers.

Some sites offer latest news items, financial, weather, movies, hobbies,
lists of things ... it's very obscure.

The feeds you have will depend on what your site is all about.

When you have a site online and you've determined what your site
has to offer (content-wise), let us know.

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Maybe you're not sure what an RSS feed is?

An RSS feed is information a website offers that can be displayed on
your own website. Take for example the latest CNN new stories. You
can use their RSS feed to display the latest news on your own website
in any layout you want. You can stick it in a blog, on the side of one
of youf pages, whatever. People can read those highlights and perhaps
click on one of them to see the whole story, in which case they are
linked back to CNN for the full story.

Whenever your site is refreshed, the latest stories are automatically
updated directly from the CNN feed. That's the whole point of it.

[Pennimus]

Seems to me he doesn't want to know how to implement one, but if "anyone knows of any good ones". IE, any good RSS feeds.

Which sort of begs the question: what is the site about?:confused:

[mlseim]

hmmm ...

and I would guess there are about 100 million feeds to choose from?

[phpnewb]

tennis

[mlseim]

How about some of these ....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tennis+rss+feeds&btnG=Google+Search

[phpnewb]

I've been reading and I see that you can create your own news feeds. Are there any copyright issues when creating a feed? it involves linking to another site and possibly displaying some of their content.

[mlseim]

I would think there would only be issues if you were to profit
from the information, or charge people to view the information.

If you offer a feed of your information, you're basically inviting,
or consenting to have the information used on other websites.

[phpnewb]

So I could probably create my own feed with maybe my own article descriptions and just have links to the site the articles are on