Implent a RSS feed?

[eisa01]

I've just found out how cool RSS feeds are. Have you considered implementing one? It would be a great addition to an already magnificent site!

Oh, and will you sell Armed Assault through Amazon so we can support you that way?

[qqqqqq]

What's an RSS feed?    

[Planck]

OFPEC doesn't sell games and has no connection to BIS or Codemasters.

You should direct your question on that subject to BIS not OFPEC.


Planck

[DBR_ONIX]

I think he means the referer thingy on Amazon (Not totaly sure, but something like you put a link somewhere, and every time someone buys it via that link, you get x% of the money)

An RSS feed is an XML file, normaly containing news
For example.. http://fxfeeds.mozillazine.org/rss20.xml

All the site would need to do is make a PHP script, that writes the news out, instead of the nice tables on the homepage, as an XML page, and link to it. Then people could add it to a Live Bookmark thing on Firefox, or a RSS News Reader Program (Some have featrures like news-ticker on desktop, theres programs to change the XML to text files that are saved to an iPods notes section etc etc..)

A nice idea, one that I suggested to OFP.info, but they've not done anything on this  ...
- Ben

[eisa01]

Yeah, I meant the Amazon affiliate program. I think you had it when Resistance came out.

I suggested it to ofp.info too, they said it was coming. So hurry up and you can beat them

[MachoMan]

OFPEC's ISP doesn't allow us to advertise, so selling OFP through Amazon is not possible.
An RSS feed is a good idea, which has been mentioned in the past. Not that I want to discourage any input, but I'm guessing someone is gonna get in here, saying: No time, perhaps in the future ... you guys know the drill.

[Wolfsbane]

Back in the day when we were tight with Codemasters, we had a deal with them whereby we sold Resistance and OFP through affiliate. We got 'x' per copy sold, but that was before the server swap, back in the day when we were with an American company for hosting and paying our our arse for it. (Although the service was excellent, and the American girl on the helpdesk did soooo love my Scottish accent!). We stopped that shortly after moving to HuBBa's Beast due to the above mentioned legal reason.

Believe as already said, that still stands. Good idea though, although to be honest, it didn't really pay off that much. People generally get it in the shops, as returns and whatnot are much easier than through post.

[DBR_ONIX]

Assuming the site uses PHP/MySQL for the stuff,  it would be easy enough to let someone know the basic layout of the database (Basicly the title/content colum names), then someone could put together the code, send it to you and you could put in user/pass/database/table name and upload it.

The code's easy enough to do, just write the title and news item to the XML in the right format, and repeat that for the past x news items. The script that does this is run everytime the news is added, say

Or, not sure if the server works with it, but you can sometimes put PHP in an .xml file, and basicly write the RSS, with some PHP in the right places. Much simpler

Would be nice to have, and it's only an extra script and one file, doesn't really change anything (Apart from linking it somewhere, but thats it)
- Ben

[Mikero]

ummmm, could we go back to basics folks and define what's in it for us? What is it where 'feeding', or what is it we're being 'fed'?

[KTottE]

Well we would 'feed' the latest updates from the Intel Depot, so that users with a RSS-Reader could download the feed and read it without visiting the site.

DBR_ONIX, we know how to write RSS syndication scripts, that's not the point. I'm just curious what would be the point of having RSS?

[Wolfsbane]

As for the RSS Feed, as my Corporal of Horse would say;
"You are nothing but a weak, idle individual!!"

(Of course, he doesn't say it to me... Yet..)

Nah, nice idea, but I think the five seconds it takes to visit the site and scan the front page, doesn't really merit it. Besides, we want to keep people coming back to the site, because the psychology of it is, you give people external sources with which to access your information, it actually pushes the site further from their mind, then one day....

Never come back...

Then OFPEC have to start culling Staff, stop paying Sui his five bowls of rice a day, and send Ktoo back to the coal mines.

Think of the children!!!

[Mikero]

Surely Wolfsbane that was a typo. Didn't you mean to feed Sui five BOWELS of rice each day?

[Sui]

Then OFPEC have to start culling Staff, stop paying Sui his five bowls of rice a day, and send Ktoo back to the coal mines.

Five? I've only ever seen three! Man... there's obviously some corruption happenining around here somewhere...

[MachoMan]

Mjmm Mjmm Mjmm ...

Who, where, what rice?

[DBR_ONIX]

DBR_ONIX, we know how to write RSS syndication scripts, that's not the point.

Indeed, the point is "will you"

I'm just curious what would be the point of having RSS?

If it's there, people will find a reason for it
Like I've mentioned theres programs to download an RSS feed to an iPods note section, which can be usefull, just shove the ipod on the dock, and it automaticly downloads the news (most have default news things of yahoo or google). Also you could use it too see if the news has been updated. Yeh you could check the sites, but things that make life easier can't be bad

Hmm... Also.....RSS Feeds generate rice...
(Where'd all this talk of rice come from anyway? :hmm: )
- Ben