There is a way to post your news on another site. It isn't
perfect, though. The news doesn't actually get included on the page;
the browser fetches the news separately from the other server and
integrates it into the page itself. (This means that it will only
work if Javascript is supported and enabled.)
First, one
note: it's also possible to do this via programs like "cron" and
"wget" which automate a regular download of a news file. This is not
for the faint of heart, though -- only people who already know what
"cron" and "wget" are should try this.
Here, then, are the
instructions for the JavaScript method.
1) Get the News
Categories addon.
2) Edit ndisplay.pl. (You will have to
remove the ! from <Manual!Edit> if you haven't already.) At
the beginning (or, if you know Perl, at any other valid point)
insert the following:
sub DoJSNews {
# Create a JavaScript news file suitable for inclusion from another site
&DoNewsHTML;
# If you'd prefer to use headlines, change the previous
# line to &DoHeadlineHTML;
$newshtml =~ s/\'/\\'/g; # escape ' as required by javascript
$newshtml =~ s/[\n\r]//g; # remove line feeds
$newshtml = "document.write('$newshtml');";
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3)
Via the News Categories addon, create a new profile. Configure it
appropriately (which categories you want to include news from, how
much news you want to include). Set the "Generate news using
ndisplay.pl subroutine" option to DoJSNews and then set the "Create
<a name> tags with news" option (the last one) to
No.
4) Build news. You will now find a new text file in your
HTML files directory called profilename.txt where profilename is the
name of the profile you just created. Find the URL (example: <a
href="http://yoursite.com/news/othersitenews.txt">http://yoursite.com/news/othersitenews.txt</a>)
to this file.
5) Add the following to the HTML file that you
want the news to be included in. (This file should be on another
server; use the standard SSI method for files on the same server.)
<script src="http://yoursite.com/news/othersitenews.txt"></script>
<noscript>To see the latest news, you need a browser
that supports JavaScript.</noscript> |
Replace
http://yoursite.com/news/othersitenews.txt in the above with the URL
you found in step 4. You can also edit the text between
<noscript> and </noscript> -- this is what is displayed
to users whose browsers don't support JavaScript or who have
disabled JavaScript.
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