My forum is basically a social networking site, and I am always thinking about ways to keep my members interested. After realizing most had never heard of RSS, I had the notion to add RSS reader capability to the site. I did a search here last night and saw that the idea of incoming feeds had been toyed with, but not developed. So, I hit Google for some research, and developed one myself.
It's built around the RSS Content Feed Class from these guys. So, the hard part was already done. After studying the code and tweaking a couple things, I created an add-on reader that uses the most basic of the feed content to display results from the specified URLs.
You can see working demos on my SHN test site and also on a Base Snitz 3.4.06 site.
This initial version stores all variables in rss_var.asp, and requires no changes to the database. I'm hoping someone will be interested and willing to create an admin interface for a more advanced version. Also, there's a lot more information in the feeds than what this reader displays, so there's plenty of potential.
Overall, I'm pretty pleased with myself for getting the reader this far. Especially considering that my only programming class was in BASIC on Commadore PET machines back in high school.

So, take a look, and give it a try. It's a super simple install and none of your existing files are altered.
Get the zip file here
I'm very interested in constructive feedback and help, so if you have thoughts or ideas, please let me know. <