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dylan kane
2,094 Pointscould anybody direct me to the right place on the website to find out how to make a news feed
for a website i am making, i want to make a news feed table on the side of my page and i need to know where i could learn a language that would allow me to do this. would it be php? ruby? any help would be great
2 Answers
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 PointsSlightly depends on how this is going to function. Is it news you yourself create? Or is it going to pull from an existing service like the BBC or CNN and display the latest news from a source like that? If it is pulling from an external source, then you need to find a news service with an API or RSS feed that you can use to get the 'latest news' information. Then you could use either JavaScript (AJAX call), or PHP to call that API or RSS feed when the page is loaded to get the news services latest news, and format it to your sidebar. If this is news you create, it could be as simple as static HTML and CSS that you update with your own content whenever you have 'news' to announce. To make things easier you could use something like Wordpress or Drupal as a content management system (CMS) to aid in writing new news stories. I have a feeling you're looking to pull from an existing news service though, is that correct?
Twiz T
12,588 PointsIf you're making an activity/new feed for user actions on your website (adding a comment, posting, etc) you could use something like this activity gem for a ruby on rails site.
It's worked well for me.
-twiz