Here's my problem. I am creating a few web sites for local radio stations. They want to display school closings on their site and be able to add closings to the list as they receive them. They want the closings displayed on all their sites, yet only updating the closings in one place. Similar too RSS feed, but not quite. Anyone have any tips on how to do this???

THANKS!!!

Can't be done with HTML only.

yes I figured, but how do I go about doing it. I have some js, php, experience.

To Chris: Yes it can be done with HTML only. Not well, but it can be done.

To Streetfire:
Create a PHP front end to add entries a Mysql Database with the list of closings.

Then write code on each site to retrieve and format that data.

This all assumes you have a person to enter the data.

If not, create a way for your schools to login to the same database and enter their closings. PHP will do it.



RSS feeds are more logical for outbound data in this case.
IE: Users who want the list of closings RSS to them.

Thank You! Maybe I should say I have a little php experience. heh I dont know how to do that exactly, but I'm a quick learner. Installing Wordpress and inserting php mailto forms is probably the extent of my knowledge on it. Is this pretty easy? I'm sure I can figure it out if it's not too bad.

Still, any easier suggestions would be cool.

If all the sites can run PHP code an XML reader for the remote sites and a system for updating the XML wherever the master database will be.

When you say database, do you mean Mysql or just referring to an XML doc?

I created the following XML file for the content, but I cannot get it to work on my site. Tried various js and just can quite get it to work right.

Help????

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<closings>
<schools>
<name>School 1</name>
</schools>
<schools>
<name>School 2</name>
</schools>
<schools>
<name>School 3</name>
</schools>
<schools>
<name>School 4</name>
</schools>
</closings>

Any form of data storage is referred to as a database.

MySql is a database SERVER and can contain many database structures.

XML is a flat-file database

gotcha

Originally Posted by StreetfireD.

I created the following XML file for the content, but I cannot get it to work on my site. Tried various js and just can quite get it to work right.

Help????

and exactly how is it not working?

and what code are you using to read it with.

Dude!

If you are going to do something that simple, then just create a delimited text file.

Field A, Field B, Field C

Then "Include" the file in some sort of box or IFRAME in each site.

I got the impressions you wanted to automate it a little more than that though.

You could actually create a database like this.

Field A School
Field B Closed A Boolean Yes No Field.

That way in each event all you would have to do is enter the Y or the N.

The only one's that would screw this up are the one's that "delay".

Think a little bigger than you currently are.

Then go to Marketplace and look for a PHP coder.

ooo spam!

I think I am going to do this in Javascript. It sounds easier than what you guys are talking about. eh

I still have a question though... see Javascript section