CoffeeCup Software

I've been trying to add my forum RSS as a custom source, but I cannot get it to display in preview or after it's uploaded. I don't have any problems using the pre-loaded sites though. My forum has an RSS mod installed, so it doesn't actually have its own rss.xml file, its actually embedded in an index template. Could this be the problem? If you go to the RSS link it displays like any other, but for some reason the RSS news reader has problems with it. Here is the RSS link:
http://citrusinformationzone.com/Commun … ction=.xml

I don't know if anyone can answer this, but my fingers are crossed, I would really like to have a feed from my forum on my home web site. Thanks-Weisus Kevan
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Weisus,

When you open the CoffeeCup RSS news flash program, you should be on the "Create and Upload" tab. Over on the right is an "Add" button. If you click on that Add button, you will get a window that allows you to name your feed, and enter the URL from your message.

Did you try that? Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family

Thanks for the reply Bill, but that isn't the problem. I thought that perhaps it was a glitch with the add custom news option, but I was able to enter several of the other feeds that are provided and there doesn't seem to be a problem. I think that it may be problem with the way that my RSS feed is served.
Kevan
http://bestreviewsonearth.com - http://citrusinformationzone.com

Since it doesn't appear that anyone from coffeecup has any suggestions for this, I found a semi-solution that may help someone else if they stumble across this problem.

You can go to this site: http://www.rss-info.com/en_rssinclude-simple.html and it will generate some html for you to copy and paste into your html page. The generated code allows for some styling and seems to work pretty well. I mentioned that it is a semi solution, because like coffeecup's news flash the contained information isn't readable by the search engines. So while it looks nice and adds to your site, there is zero SEO value. However, they offer the ability to create a piece of php code that would be readable by the engines and help your site in the rankings. Problem...I haven't been able to integrate the php code into my html pages. There are apparently two solutions to this:
1. Rename your html or htm files with php extensions; so, index.html becomes index.php
While this will work, you would now have to potentially alter your incoming links, not a fun scenario.

2. This option sounds much better, but I haven't been able to get it to work, perhaps someone with more savvy could take a look?
-alter your htaccess file with one or both of the following:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm

Seems easy enough, but it hasn't proved successful. If I figure this out, I will post the results, so that we can benefit from news feeds on our sites. But if someone has another answer here, I would love to hear it, because I have already tried many different approaches to this at no avail.

Below you will find both the java and php options. If you want to get an idea of what it will look like, or if you would like to help find a way to make the php work within an htm, or html file, just place the code into a dummy file on your site. The following examples pull up yahoo news:

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.rss-info.com/rss2.php?integration=js&windowopen=1&rss=http%3A%2F%2Frss.news.yahoo.com%2Frss%2Finternet&number=10&width=300&ifbgcol=FFFFFF&bordercol=D0D0D0&textbgcol=F0F0F0&rssbgcol=F0F0F0&showrsstitle=1&showtext=1"> </script>

<? readfile('http://www.rss-info.com/rss2.php?integration=php&windowopen=1&rss=http%3A%2F%2Frss.news.yahoo.com%2Frss%2Finternet&number=10&width=300&ifbgcol=FFFFFF&bordercol=D0D0D0&textbgcol=F0F0F0&rssbgcol=F0F0F0&showrsstitle=1&showtext=1'); ?> Kevan
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