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hello everybody,

I was wondering how to put posts or the post titles on a seperate page. I mean a page outside of my EE installation/blog. Still part of the same site but just nothing to do with the blog.

I am thinking when sites have their ‘latest news headlines’ on their front pages. this then links to their latest blog entries.

Thanks
Toby

You’ll probably want to use an RSS feed for that.

ah, ok, my RSS feed from my blog.

but how do I get it to display what I want on the page?

thanks,
Toby

For EE, there is the Magpie plugin. I believe there is a stand-alone PHP version, too, as well as a large number of other mechanisms to display RSS/Atom feeds in your website.

Another option, possibly simpler than working with Magpie, would be to use an iFrame.

I’d suggest making an EE template just with the output that you want and then using file_get_contents() to pull it into your other php page. Your ee template could be something like

<ul>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="my_weblog" disable="custom_fields|categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off" limit="5"}
{if no_results}
   <li>No Results</li>
{/if}
   <li><a href="http://{path=blog/comments">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>

and your PHP file could have something like this in it

<h3>Latest News Headlines</h3>
<p><? echo file_get_contents("http://mysite.com/blog/latest_headlines/");?>

The file_get_contents function stores the contents in a string in PHP. You can read about it here: PHP:// file_get_contents

thanks, Erik and everyone,

that worked well. Very simple.

I’d suggest making an EE template just with the output that you want and then using file_get_contents() to pull it into your other php page.

thanks
Toby