I was wondering for some time now how I could put a RSS feed onto my website, so I decided to surf the net and find out how to do it fast, affordable and in such a way I could reproduce the results in different pages or client websites with a minimum of fuss.

My thoughts were that the easiest way to implement into an already existing page without disturbing the content, would be in a popup, this would also help with me being able to position anywhere on the screen and have more control over the entrance and closing of the popup for the browser, including the possibility to scroll with the page contents so my visitors always had it in their sight.

First I needed to find out how to install a RSS feed, because displaying it afterwards in an iframe popup window would be easy with my JavaScript popup window software. So after some time of searching through cyberspace junk and different piles of data on the subject I finally came across a small script in PHP which looked as if it would do the trick. The script was in two files one for the PHP functions to connect to a RSS feed and the other was to display the contents, but we don’t really need to know too much about their inner workings for now. Also I might add the script is open source and free to copy, use and distribute as long as we follow the owners instructions, which basically are not to sell the script as your own and to leave the credits untouched (I suggest you read them thoroughly before).

So now I had the script I needed to change it a little, as the original file logged on to CNN and BBC news, which wasn’t exactly what I was originally thinking of using for my own purposes. So I changed it to a UK tabloid newspapers football feed, published to my website and ran it in my web browser. Now I was impressed!! Here I am 30 minutes later with the RSS feed running on my website page and such an easy task. In fact the hardest part was finding the script, which I have linked to at the bottom of this article. It was so easy I actually decided to make a video tutorial describing it step by step for anyone who wants to put a RSS popup window on their website.

As I said at the beginning I wanted to insert the RSS feed into a popup window, so now that the RSS feed was working all I had to do was to copy the script’s URL and insert it into my popup window software HTML editor, which is detailed in the video tutorial at the link below. This was also a relatively easy task considering all you need is a text editor and a few right clicks of a mouse.

Within less than 15 minutes I had installed a RSS ticker in a popup window on my website.

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