pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:44:48 +0000

Well, I haven't heard back, so I'm going to assume it's not a problem. If anybody uses this snippet and gets yelled at, please let me know,

You will have to modify a few things in the script. First, you are required to include the TBS & lastRSS classes. I don't have include statements because I make use of the __autoload() function. Second, you will notice that I left some of my predefined constants in the script (PATH_LASTRSS_CACHE & PATH_TEMPLATES_WEB). You will have to either define them or replace as necessary.

PHP Script:

<?php
/* Digg needs to have a user agent set */
ini_set('user_agent', 'PHP');

/* create the object */
$rss = new lastRSS();

/* set the max number of ites we want */
$rss->items_limit = 10;

/* set the cache directory so we don't hit the site for the feed every time we have a page load */
$rss->cache_dir = PATH_LASTRSS_CACHE;
$rss->cache_time = 3600;

/* get the feed */
$rs = $rss->get('http://www.digg.com/rss/containertechnology.xml');


/* create the template object */
$tbs = new clsTinyButStrong();

/* set the main tamplate file */
$tbs->LoadTemplate(PATH_TEMPLATES_WEB . 'feed_example.htm', false);

/* merge the block for the feed items */
$tbs->MergeBlock('blkNews', $rs['items']);

/* parse the template */
$tbs->Show();
?>

HTML Template:

<!-- Short and simple example of using a block :). -->
<h4>Digg.com News</h4>
<ul>
	<li><a href="[blkNews.link;magnet=div;block=li;noerr]">[blkNews.title]</a><br>[blkNews.pubDate]</li>
</ul>

I hope this is helpful!

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:59:19 +0000

Megan;217945 wrote: Exactly, and Digg has way, way, way more page strength than you do. There is no way you could outrank them with the same content. And Google is really starting to crack down on duplicate content.

It could work better with other search engines if that's what you're thinking.

Ok, then scratch the SEO. I still would rather have the data in XML format so I can display it how I want rather than going through their styler.

I use TBS for my websites, and that and lastRSS makes it easy.

Assuming I get the approval from Digg, I will post the full script on how I coded it.

Megan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:53:38 +0000

JeevesBond;217938 wrote: Not sure if that'll help since it's duplicate content.

Exactly, and Digg has way, way, way more page strength than you do. There is no way you could outrank them with the same content. And Google is really starting to crack down on duplicate content.

It could work better with other search engines if that's what you're thinking.

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:32:13 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I sent them an email. We shall see what happens.

JeevesBond — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:28:50 +0000

Quote: So the question is...Is it ok to do this? I didn't find anywhere in Digg's term of use that said this is not ok, plus all the links in the feed goes to the Digg page, and not directly to the story.

Hmmm, well that's difficult to say, I am not a lawyer and all that! I've e-mailed Digg about things before and had a reply. I think you can legally cover yourself quite well by sending them an e-mail asking whether it's alright to copy their RSS feed and put something along the lines of: 'if no reply is received by date x I will assume your consent to use the RSS feeds from your site'. Again, I am not a lawyer but you're giving them an opportunity to disagree with your usage of their public services.

That's an interesting code snippet though, thanks for sharing. Could you let us know what Digg says? It will be useful for anyone wanting to use that code snippet.

Quote: Plus, the search engines pick up the content with my method.

Not sure if that'll help since it's duplicate content.