Rss Feed ColdFusion

ColdFusion is an application server and scripting language used for Internet application development such as for dynamically-generated web sites. ColdFusion is like Microsoft Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages and PHP. Similar to other server-side scripting languages, ColdFusion permits developers to build active WebPages driven by database back-ends.

We can also create Rss feeds using ColdFusion.We can customize the code as per our wish. We can list all the titles of the postings or we can list a posting title with some content.

Here is a sample coldfusion code for listing the blog titles.

To get the rss feed xml file
<cfhttp url=”http://www.yoursiteurl.com/blog/rss.xml” method=”get”>
Then parse the xmlfile by using the code given below.
<cfset variables.objRss = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)>
Search for the “item” tag in the xml file.Assign it to a variable.
<cfset variables.items = XmlSearch(objRss, ‘//item’) />
Then in a loop display all the titles.It will display 5 titles.To display all the titles, give #ArrayLen(items)# instead of “5”
<cfloop from=”1″ to=”5″ index=”variables.i”>
Print all the titles in an anchor tag.
<cfoutput><a href=”#items[i].link.xmltext#” mce_href=”#items[i].link.xmltext#” title=”#items[i].title.xmltext#”>#items[i].title.xmltext#</a></cfoutput>
Loop ends here.
</cfloop>

After using the above code, Output will be as given below.

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