Good tutorial on making an RSS Feed with ColdFusion
I was planning a simple tutorial on how to create an RSS feed. This would be a very simple and direct "Do This", and not "Here are the ten thousand versions of RSS" type of article, but Pete beat me to it. You can find this article here:
If you just need to get a RSS feed up quickly, this is the article for you.
By the way - time for a <cftease> - In a few days (or week or so, but close) something is going to launch. What is it? I can't say. But I can say it is the main reason my open source applications have slowed down quite a bit the last few months.
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You tease. I will admit though that I am waiting for it. (Whatever it is)
# Posted By Sam Smith
| 10/16/06 1:41 PM
When you say "slowed down a bit", you realize that to the rest of us that means that you are operating at a normal mortal's speed and not the Jedi Knight speed with which you normally blur past us all, right?
Heh, I never said I was a good programmer. Fast, yes. ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 10/16/06 2:14 PM
You're such a Tease!
# Posted By Robert Owen
| 10/16/06 2:44 PM
EXCITED!
# Posted By John Allen
| 10/16/06 3:20 PM
"the main reason my open source applications have slowed down quite a bit the last few months."I thought this had something to do with the new season of Lost. ;-)
# Posted By Dan Sorensen
| 10/16/06 4:09 PM
I know what it is... I know what it is...
# Posted By TJ Downes
| 10/16/06 7:17 PM
I'm predicting Ray has become a Flex addict, and the slow down was due to training for jedi master level Flex skills. :-)
# Posted By Hans
| 10/16/06 7:40 PM
I _do_ love Flex - but I'm a bit of a newbie still. I wish I could work on a project to get some eal world experience.
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 10/16/06 7:57 PM
Some other links that I have found very useful:RSS Specification
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Adding Style Sheets to RSS
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/208.cfm
I LOVE RSS! Working with it in Coldfusion is incredibly easy.We have numerous instances of the fantastic BlogCFC running on our work Intranet, and I wanted to combine the rss feeds into one, so I created a standalone CF component RSS Aggregator.
The component filters and combines items from specified RSS feeds into one, and can display the returned feed as a table (with options) and also as a javascript RSS Ticker.
It's been in place on our internal site for a while now and everyone loves it. It's one of my development "pride and joys".
So, a big thanks to both Ray for his hard work and development dedication, and also to Pete Freitag for his tutorials. Both have been invaluable to me over the last year.
# Posted By Matt Gifford
| 10/17/06 5:08 AM
Yea, that's actually the site I used when putting my RSS feed together last winter. Simple, and very useful.But the RSS Specification that Ben posted gives you the info on all the little ins and outs that you can add to your RSS feed.
# Posted By Greg Nilsen
| 10/17/06 9:50 AM
SECRET PROJECT SPOILERit is a Cylon detector
# Posted By Scott P
| 10/17/06 10:01 AM
Does anyone have a good coldfusion script for cleaning up all the junk characters people use that mess up an RSS feed? I have an article database that the public adds to. And the special characters like smart quotes, em dashes, and other special characters mess up the feeds. I've used Replace to strip out most of them, but it's next to impossible to catch all the odd characters that exist out there. Any ideas?
# Posted By Marnie Pehrson
| 3/18/08 2:31 PM
I use regular expression pattern matching to grab high-ascii values:http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:1155.vi...
Check out the comments to the post for more tips.
Ray, I was looking for a CF tutorial on setting up an RSS, and I came across this. It is very complete:http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/10790/1954
# Posted By Lee Crockett
| 6/10/09 11:45 AM
Lee, note that since the time of writing this entry, CFFEED was added to ColdFusion 8.
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 6/10/09 11:46 AM