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How to get Free Tvcrazy Content for Your Website Using RSS feeds
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If you want free content for your website simply plug in this RSS feed address

XML feed http://tvcrazy.net/forum/node/feed into a script like Carp and you've got instant TV show and entertainment related content for a php page. Keep reading and you'll discover how to use it in a html page as well.

Below is the step by step explanation of how to use Carp to plug in update website content into your site.

1.Go to the Carp site and download Carp download Carp for free.
2. Follow the instructions on the Readme page you get with the download to install Carp. Just to give you some added help I'm going to put it in my own words. So if you get confused read both.

A. create a folder on your site and name it Carp.
B. upload everything you got from Carp to your website in the Carp folder you created in step A.
C. Upload carpsetup.php somewhere where you can pull it up on your web browser easy like www.yoursite.com/carpsetup.php. Open it up in your web browser.
D. Follow the directions it gives you. It will ask you to put in your login name and password so it can get temporary permissions to do it's thing. Has to be done or it will not install. (You can do it manually if necessary by doing a Chmod yourself to 777 for the Carp folder you created. You can change it after the install is complete. chmod example)
E. Go on to the next page and if it works it will pull up newsfeed. It will show you something similar to this

<?php
require_once '/home/subscrib/public_html/yoursitename/carp/carp.php';
CarpCacheShow('http://tvcrazy.net/forum/node/feed'); (you have to put in the address like this tvcrazy example)

?>

If you use the code below replacing the italicized words with what the Carp setup page gives you. You can use the code below as a php page.

<html>
<head>
<title>Tv News and Articles</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
#seonewsfeed h3 {
margin:6px 0 0 0;
}
</style>
<body><p align="center"><div id="seonewsfeed">
<body>
<?php
require_once '/home/subscrib/public_html/yoursitename/carp/carp.php';
CarpConf('linktarget',1);
CarpConf('bilink','<h3>');
CarpConf('ailink','</h3>');
CarpCacheShow('http://tvcrazy.net/forum/node/feed');

?>
</body>
</html>

To edit php pages I recommend The HTML Kit you can get for free at download.com

Controlling the number of articles that show up on your page
Add

CarpConf('maxitems',3);
line to control the number of posts. Just change 3 to whatever number you want.

Now if you want to use it in a html page
Use a SSI include like this

Just insert it where ever you want the news to show up and it will put the entire php page into your html page. The only catch is your webhost has to parse the html pages the same way most automatically do for shtml pages. Most of the time you can go to your control panel and set this or ask your webhost to do it for you.

If you use Bluehost for example go to your control panel click on the Apache Handlers link and in the 2 boxes put html in the first box or .htm and server-parsed in the second box named handler and click on add and boom your done. By the way I do recommend Bluehost if your looking CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR BLUEHOST.COM NOW. You get 2 gigs in space, 75 gigs in transfer, stats, free domain, 5 addon domains, and of course the awesome control panel which gives you the ability to do a lot of cool things with your website like creating databases, forums, classified ads, blogs, etc.

other good references on the RSS subject

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