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How to display our RSS feeds on your site - adding feeds to a web site

If you are a webmaster you may also enrich your web site by publishing information streams in modules on your own pages.

How to display CORDIS news on your site

If you are a webmaster you may use CORDIS' RSS feeds to add dynamism to your homepage or news pages or to boost your content pages. How you insert Cordis' RSS feeds into your pages depends on the technology you use on your web site.

Inserting feeds into HTML pages

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Use one of the numerous web services which display RSS feeds. Usually all you have to do is insert a single line of JavaScript code into your HTML page. For example:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://convert.rss-to-javascript.com/?src=http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.rss&lang=en&refresh=1"> </script>

There are also highly developed tools available free of charge which generate JavaScript code automatically and enable you to adapt and customise layout with precision:

Feed Informer
RSS-To-JavaScript

Inserting feeds into PHP pages

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You may also use an open source PHP script, which avoids the need to rely on an external site:

FeedSplitter
zFeeder

Another solution is to import the MyHeadlines module, which was designed more specifically for integration into PHPNuke, PostNuke, Xoops, eNvolution, etc. If you wish to learn more on this subject, the web site "Sitepoint" has published a full, detailed tutorial in English on creating and using RSS feeds with PHP script.

Inserting feeds into ASP.NET pages

You will find a number of VB scripts for ASP pages by carrying out a Google search for the keywords "RSS FEED VB ASP". One of the best known is Intelligent Solutions published by DevX.com.

Pour une insertion dans des pages ASP.NET

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Microsoft's MSDN offers a ready-made solution, the RSSAggregator.

There is also an open source .NET solution which is noted for its compatibility with the different versions of RSS: RSS.NET.

As the aforementioned solutions are in C#, programmers using VB.NET will find that another free tool - RSSMASTER- which contains practical examples in this language, is easier to use.

Inserting feeds into FLASH pages

In any event, you will need to know the URLs of our different information streams:

CORDIS News : http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.rss&lang=en&refresh=1

Last updated on: 2010-11-18