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Does anyone know how javascript.internet.com...on the homepage how do they get the latest forum updates on the home page (located on the bottom: its titled Forum Discussions)...I want to know if they do it manually on a daily basis or are they using some kind of script to generate that...?

[AdamGundry]

Forums using vBulletin (such as this one) and some other systems have the ability (somethimes with a plugin or mod) to export RDF or RSS files, which can then be parsed by a server-side script on another site. That would be one way of doing it, or if the sites have access to each others' databases they could do it directly with database queries.

Which method javascript.internet.com uses (or if it uses another method entirely) I can't be certain. However, it requires some kind of server-side scripting, not JS alone.

Adam

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Thanks Adam