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It's yet another soggy day in NorCal and looking for something to keep busy
with I wrote a script in PHP to search my website's database and parse out a
XML RSS feed

IF, you have an RSS reader and are willing to help ...please ... try

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/rss.xml

and see if it works. Report back here, if you will. It validates ok on
one of the sites for that, and looks ok in MY rss reader, but experience has
taught me to expect unpleasant surprizes from my limited geeking skills.


If I can figure out the sql needed to join several tables, I'll modify the
feed to include the most current updates from all sections, not just the
fishing logs ....
but sql makes my head hurt :-(

fwiw, I make no claims the site has content of interest, I'm just enjoying a
slight mental challenge to pass some time

thanks
Larry

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"Larry" wrote in news:i4HTf.12691$bn3.11232@bgtnsc04-
news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/rss.xml

Works fine as a live bookmark in Firefox, Larry.

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"Larry" wrote ...

IF, you have an RSS reader and are willing to help ...please ... try

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/rss.xml

and see if it works. Report back here, if you will. thanks
Larry


Works really well in FeedReader.

Dan
....nice pics, btw...

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"Larry" wrote in
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It's yet another soggy day in NorCal and looking for something to keep
busy with I wrote a script in PHP to search my website's database and
parse out a XML RSS feed

IF, you have an RSS reader and are willing to help ...please ... try

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/rss.xml

and see if it works. Report back here, if you will. It validates
ok on one of the sites for that, and looks ok in MY rss reader, but
experience has taught me to expect unpleasant surprizes from my
limited geeking skills.


If I can figure out the sql needed to join several tables, I'll modify
the feed to include the most current updates from all sections, not
just the fishing logs ....
but sql makes my head hurt :-(

fwiw, I make no claims the site has content of interest, I'm just
enjoying a slight mental challenge to pass some time

thanks
Larry




Works nice from my Google home page.


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"Daniel-San" wrote


Works really well in FeedReader.

Dan
...nice pics, btw...

Thanks, hopefully the 2006 series of nearly daily entries will start soon.

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"Scott Seidman" wrote



Works nice from my Google home page.



thanks for checking

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"GaryM" wrote


Works fine as a live bookmark in Firefox, Larry.


umm, I use FireFox but have zero idea how to use 'live bookmarks' .... I use
Snarfer for RSS feeds .... thanks for checking it for me

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"Larry" wrote in
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umm, I use FireFox but have zero idea how to use 'live bookmarks'
.... I use Snarfer for RSS feeds .... thanks for checking it for
me

It's obscure. You can first of all declare some html in your home page
that lets FF users auto att the live bookmark. I don't know what the
construction is to do that, but google is your friend. However if you
jus want to test it, go to Manage Bookmarks and New, then Live
Bookmark.

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"Larry" wrote in
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Thanks, hopefully the 2006 series of nearly daily entries will
start soon.

Well the good news is that if you keep the feed up to date, we'll know
when you do it without prompting :).

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"GaryM" wrote


Well the good news is that if you keep the feed up to date, we'll know
when you do it without prompting :).


yep, that is the ideaG
The feed is self updating ... when your reader checks it, my script runs,
scans the database and includes only the most recent articles in the output
.... your reader can tell what is new to you, that is it's job.

I have given up on meeting the geek challenge of joining three databases
and getting just the information I want from a query ... I spent half the
day yesterday reading up on sql joins and trying different approaches
without success, I've surpassed the limit of my perseverance for such a
topic ;-)

So,

I will build two other feeds for the site ... one for the 'my fly boxes"
section, just started, that will eventually contain tying recipes and
fishing suggestions for all of MY favorite patterns including 'my' many
slight variations. The other feed will be for an "IMO" section that is
planned to contain stories, opinions, rants, reviews etc on a variety of
subjects, fly fishing included ... one series that I plan to start this
summer will be "Wood Road to Last Chance" an in-depth look at about 8 or 9
miles of my favorite crick ...lots of pictures, fishing info, nature study,
personal musings etc. ( I make no claim to be either a writer or
photographer worth the names, but I think some of it will please people that
fish for the reasons I do )

Like any personal site, mine is of limited interest ... but with the feeds,
the few that are interested can have my sporadic additions come to them
without any effort on ther part, once the feed is added into a rss reader.

I think RSS feeds 'should' be a part of any webmaster's strategy at this
point ( um, I see a IMO article here :-) ...many people have nice personal
sites that deserve more attention than they get, many sites of good
potential dwindle because the updates never attract attention and the
webmaster loses momentum because his efforts aren't viewed ... RSS can help
a little