March 13, 2007

• booo! stupid $wpdb class

  OK-ok. Ronald was right. I don't need no stinkin' help from nobody. (well actually, nobody even tried)

  had to turn to the dark side on this one. I ended up using the built-in fetch_rss function.

  <?php require_once('blah..blah/wp-includes/rss.php'); ?>
  <?php $rss = fetch_rss('your feed here');
  $ijk = 0;
  ?>
  
  <?php foreach ( $rss->items as $item ) : ?>
  <?php print ("• ");?>
  <a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>'
  title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'>
  <?php echo $item['title']; ?>
  </a>
  <br /?>
  <?php
  $ijk++;
  // i want to limit the results to 5
  if ($ijk == 5) {
  break;
  } ?>
  <?php endforeach; ?>

  yeah .. yeah the code looks a little sloppy but it works.

  Check out the implementation.

  http://www.sjbci.org/

  In the sidebar, you can see both the now populated Devotions Box and News & Announcements Box. All contents in that box are now dynamic. Entries for Devotions can be found here and News can be found here.

  For those faint of heart, I can now pull all YB's RSS Feeds and show them on a page where your parents can read what you are up to. Keep in mind that it doesn't matter if you have your site protected or not. - I was looking for the smiley with horns but can't find any so ... in the words of jake, whateber.

  • 11:19 am
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