How is this news feed implemented?

[RunRabbit]

Hi, I am looking for a university project to set up a similar facility which use to exist (had to use web archieve to get it back). It basically sources from specfic news site (i.e. specfic Football Club stories) and appears within the one page.

The URL is: http://web.archive.org/web/20020806084827/www.check4news.com/nffc/

Would be very much appreciated if some could let me know how I would go about creating something like this? I'm not that technical, but if someone could point me in the right direction that would be quality.

Look forward to your responses.

Kind regards,

[p_lea]

At a guess this is created using external RSS feeds.
Example created to display BBC1 for a forum
http://www.pdhosting.net/rss/bbc1.php

If you take a feed and keep the results (in the above example its stored in a forum post) you would build up an archive of articles. The most flexible way would be to use lastrss (http://lastrss.oslab.net/) to create and sort the feed into something sensible.

Sharp learning curve if your new but could end with a very intresting project.
Good Luck

[RunRabbit]

Hi. Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

I am new to all this stuff, which is slightly worrying. What would this lastrss create then? For example, if I wanted to get the news headlines from a football teams web site, but they don't provide an rss feed (which I think is the case for the site I mentioned above) how would this occur?