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CDB Entry: RSS Feeds into Blackboard

Mon, 05 May 2003 13:04:44 -0700

Not to be outdone by Brian (Displaying RSS Feeds in WebCT), I found a niche of time to do the same proof of concept in Blackboard....

comment by: D'Arcy Norman

Mon, 05 May 2003 13:43:02 -0700

Alan, that's great! Any chance you'd share that .php?

comment by: Alan

Mon, 05 May 2003 13:59:04 -0700

D'Arcy,

See notes I added above. It likely would have been easier to use the same Adam Curry RSS parser Brian et al did, but I wanted to see what it took to run my own. That was the easy part, I fumbled more with typos and other goofs.

Also, watch the items in the RSS that might need escaping in the JavaScript (quotes tripped me a few times),- I also do not know what do do about the XML that is dynamicly created by scripts (e.g. from CAREO and our MLS Search) as it yields calls to my parser with double query strings (??)

comment by: D'Arcy Norman

Mon, 05 May 2003 14:15:10 -0700

D'Arcy is _always_ listening... Might not be communicative, but I'm listing.

Thanks for posting the source to the PHP/RSS thingy!

comment by: Randy Brown

Mon, 05 May 2003 15:39:02 -0700

Thanks, Alan. Great resource. Hey, does anyoen know how to open another page within the WebCT Homepage? WebCT doesn't like iframes and I've not had luck with bypassing the Javascript within WebCT. Would appreciate any hints.

comment by: Ed Swindelles

Fri, 09 May 2003 05:18:36 -0700

Alan,

Great to see OnyxRSS is working out for you. I found this post of yours through my referral logs. The College I attend uses Blackboard, maybe I'll show them the way. :)

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Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:48:02 -0700

Excerpt: Inspired by David Cater-Tod's Wytheville Community College News Service, we created a basic prototype in May 2003 (using the now dormant OnyxPHP RSS Parser), and the first generation of RSS2JS...
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Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:49:19 -0700

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Wed, 07 May 2003 16:27:02 -0700

Excerpt: To follow up on the RSS in Blackboard piece, I have posted a new page that documents and demos RSS to JS along with the source PHP code....
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Mon, 05 May 2003 13:45:12 -0700

Excerpt: With a little help from a friend, I found out that my Geology course in Blackboard can now include dynamic feeds from any site that provides RSS links. This means I can offer current, up to date resources to my...
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