Using PHP/RSS Feeds on Miva Pages

[webdec]

I would like to use an RSS feed in my Miva store. Would you recommend using an external php page or is there a way to use the php code within a Miva page?

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

I would like to use an RSS feed in my Miva store. Would you recommend using an external php page or is there a way to use the php code within a Miva page?

You would have to use external pages, Empresa VM will not parse PHP.

You could use an IFRAME, although all browsers do not support them...compatibility is better than it was years ago...but I'd favor a seperate PHP page.

[webdec]

I've been seeing some things about the MvDO command being able to parse information. Is this an option?

And is there any way to use miva commands in external pages to control the cat_tree, nav, header, footer?

[alexboyer]

You can parse the RSS with PHP and output the information in such a way that it can be written to any HTML page via javascript.

Example:

RSS feed:

http://www.hpiracing.com/rss/parts/new.rss

Which I can then parse in PHP using this page:

http://www.hpiracing.com/rssreader.php?headers=1&source=http://www.hpiracing.com/rss/parts/new.rss

Since the source RSS feed is populated via the url, and since the page echos javascript writeln commands, you can use the entire url as the src for a <script> tag like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.hpiracing.com/rssreader.php?headers=1&source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpiracing.com%2Frss%2Fparts%2Fnew.rss"><!-- --></script>

Which you can see working on this page:

http://www.hpiracing.com/rssdisplay.php

The javascript thing could also be placed inside Miva pages as seen working here:

http://www.hpiracing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=RSS_NEWPROD

Or similarly, a headlines only version:

http://www.hpiracing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=RSS_NEWPROD_HEADLINES