RSS Image

[timROGERS]

Since Danny made his piece of pointless GD, I set out to make something with GD that had a purpose and was at least functional and useful to people

As soon as I thought about it the idea of an RSS image to my head - how about an image that displays the latest title from an RSS feed?

So, off I set on the work. I dug out my MagpieRSS and set myself to work - I eventually, after around half an hour got a script that retrieved data from an RSS feed, cut it down to only the latest article and display it.

Then, I had to use GD to intergrate it into an image. That took longer - for a while I was unable to test out my work as I didn't have a host that supported GD2, but eventually I got it working.

I showed Tom (Organised) it, and he said that I had ought to add the title of the feed to the image so it made more sense, so I did Et voila, the finished product!

I wanted to be able to host it myself, and allow people to select a feed via ?rss=, but I found that HxF does not allow this and it just displays a link, so I decided to make it open source. The complete script is only 120kb, including template, PHP script and MagpieRSS.

Sample: http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/rssimage/signature.php (some may have problems with this, if so, wait for a while until DNS resolves)

Download:
http://www.vitalhosting.co.uk/~tim/rss.zip
Feel free to edit anything, as long as you publish anything you make

The script is ONLY COMPATIBLE with servers that run GD2 on their PHP.


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[Tomm]

Nice, but it doesn't all ways fit on one line.

[:Blob]

Dont mention me for hosting you then lol

Its cool, even though I dont get any of it

[timROGERS]

Thank you Mr Ryan You didn't have GD2 so it wasn't as good as the final, but GD1 let me test the principal

[Luckyrare]

MMMM not bad 6/10 rofl

[timROGERS]

Why is it 6/10? ;D Constructive criticism plssss

[Luckyrare]

6/10 because the idea is totaly riped. TECHTUTZZZZ!111THRWEEE5444FIVE11111111!1

Nah 6/10 because I dont think many people would use it, its a good idea like

Thanks,
Danny

[Sygon.]

Its ok but i dotn see that bno ones gonna use it, i doubt anyone hardltyknows what rss is.

[Raremandan]

-Cough- Didn't someone on Neowin morealess give you this script -/cough-

Really sh!t syndication is what RSS stands for

[Jamie.]

[NOOB] Whats does rss mean? [/NOOB]