GW Micro - RSS

RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe to dynamic GW Micro headlines. The GW Micro website offers several RSS feeds:

• Latest News
• Upcoming Events
• Top 5 Knowledgebase Articles
• 5 Most Recently Added Knowledgebase Articles
• Top 10 Downloads

If you're new to RSS, please take a moment to read through the following pages, as they provide an excelent overview of both what RSS is used for, and how to use it.

• Lockergnome - RSS Quickstart Guide
• Beginners Guides: RSS Feed Setup & Subscriptions - PCStats.com

Adding GW Micro RSS Feeds to Your Website

The GW Micro RSS feed URLs require three parameters for inclusion in offsite web pages. You must designate a RSS feed name, a limit amount, and an output method. An acceptable name would be one of the following:

The limit must be an integer between 1 and 10, and the output parameter can be one of the following:

For example, the URL for including RSS output with 5 Latest News headlines in HTML format would be:

http://gwmicro.com/gwrssfeed.php?name=news&limit=5&output=html

JavaScript

The easiest way to include a GW Micro RSS feed is to include a JavaScript SCRIPT element with the SRC attribute pointing to a valid GW Micro RSS feed URL, such as the following:

<SCRIPT SRC="http://gwmicro.com/gwrssfeed.php?name=news&limit=10&output=js"></SCRIPT>

PHP

If you are successfully using PHP on your web server, you can include the GW Micro RSS headlines in your PHP scripts using the following code as an example:

<?php
$gwRssURL = 'http://gwmicro.com/gwrssfeed.php?name=news&limit=5&output=html';
$gwRssHTML = file_get_contents($gwRssURL);
echo $gwRssHTML;
?>

IFRAME

Using an HTML IFRAME, you can specify a GW Micro RSS source URL, such as:

<IFRAME SRC="http://gwmicro.com/gwrssfeed.php?name=news&limit=5&output=html">
</IFRAME>

Styles

Each element of the HTML output of a GW Micro RSS feed contains a unqiue ID attribute. Using style sheets, you can apply your own style of each element, allowing seamless integration into the format of your own page layout. The ID attributes are as follows:

For example, to apply a different font-family to the main DIV element of a GW Micro RSS feed, you might do something like the following in your own STYLE designation:

DIV#gwRssMain {
	font-family: Verdana;
}

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