rseidl
09-11-2003, 04:38 PM
vb3 has easy to use rss/js/xml feed output. But what about the other way, integrating information from external feeds, prehaps filtered, into a vb board ?
For example, say you wanted to stay informed about the ongoing rivalry between nvidia and geforce graphics cards. You start a thread in your forum and tell a php script to service it.
You provide:
1. one or more URLs to RSS feeds (thousands available, pick some that are likely to have geek info on the graphics cards like extremetech, cnet etc.)
2. provide a regular expression that looks for "nvidia" or "ATI"
3. update interval (minimum time between posts)
The php script produces:
a new post at most every XX minutes/days with only the items from the feeds that match the regexp. For each matched item:
title (linked to external full article), description, date, feedsource
Bonus 1: Nicely formatted via a template.
Bonus 2: highlighted found search terms
Then you can use all the existing vb infrastructure to be notified, display summaries etc. of these scraped feeds.
I guess you would also need some way to turn the feed off for a particular thread (short of just removing it)
Your ForumOther Categories
Category: RSS Feeds
Thread ATI & GeForce
Post 9/9/03 1:30am "3 Articles"
Title, descr, date, feed
Early (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261756,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532)Hal f-Life 2 Results Show ATI Well Ahead (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261756,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532)
ATI outguns nVidia at every turn according to Valve's internal testing. A new driver from nVidia is just around the corner that may improve nVidia's performance on Half-Life 2, but for now appears to have a big leg up., 9/9/03 1:21 am, ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/)
nVidia's Risky 3D Optimization Gamble (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1200905,00.asp)
What's the right way to draw a 3D scene? What's the right way to benchmark 3D hardware? nVidia's adoption of application-specific optimizations could be bad news for buyers. We explore this complex issue, analyze nVidia's new approach, and make some predictions, 9/9/03 1:28, ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/)
Related links:
RSS to javascript (http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/) and RSS2HTML.php (http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/rss2html.php.txt)
ONYX RSS parser (http://www.readinged.com/onyx/rss/) in php
For example, say you wanted to stay informed about the ongoing rivalry between nvidia and geforce graphics cards. You start a thread in your forum and tell a php script to service it.
You provide:
1. one or more URLs to RSS feeds (thousands available, pick some that are likely to have geek info on the graphics cards like extremetech, cnet etc.)
2. provide a regular expression that looks for "nvidia" or "ATI"
3. update interval (minimum time between posts)
The php script produces:
a new post at most every XX minutes/days with only the items from the feeds that match the regexp. For each matched item:
title (linked to external full article), description, date, feedsource
Bonus 1: Nicely formatted via a template.
Bonus 2: highlighted found search terms
Then you can use all the existing vb infrastructure to be notified, display summaries etc. of these scraped feeds.
I guess you would also need some way to turn the feed off for a particular thread (short of just removing it)
Your ForumOther Categories
Category: RSS Feeds
Thread ATI & GeForce
Post 9/9/03 1:30am "3 Articles"
Title, descr, date, feed
Early (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261756,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532)Hal f-Life 2 Results Show ATI Well Ahead (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1261756,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532)
ATI outguns nVidia at every turn according to Valve's internal testing. A new driver from nVidia is just around the corner that may improve nVidia's performance on Half-Life 2, but for now appears to have a big leg up., 9/9/03 1:21 am, ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/)
nVidia's Risky 3D Optimization Gamble (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1200905,00.asp)
What's the right way to draw a 3D scene? What's the right way to benchmark 3D hardware? nVidia's adoption of application-specific optimizations could be bad news for buyers. We explore this complex issue, analyze nVidia's new approach, and make some predictions, 9/9/03 1:28, ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/)
Related links:
RSS to javascript (http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/) and RSS2HTML.php (http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/rss2html.php.txt)
ONYX RSS parser (http://www.readinged.com/onyx/rss/) in php