The code found on this page may auto-wrap, causing the code to
flow to the next line. Please keep this in mind when copy/pasting code from
this page. Fancy having the fastest Ultima Online news
around on your own website? Or even your desktop? Then you've come to
the right place :) Here you'll find a selection of links and tips on using
UO Stratics's RSS-based
newsfeed with JavaScript, PHP, Perl,
Nuke or even with Trillian and other
systems. You can choose to have all news in one feed, or perhaps you would rather have a separate feed for each news category.
JavaScript
The simplest and easiest way to put the newsfeed is to use JavaScript.
You have two options: a pre-formatted feed (as seen above) and an unformatted
feed that will allow you to format to match your sites design (you'll
need to use CSS - see the CSS section below for details).
To use the pre-formatted feed, simply include the following HTML snippet
on your page where you want the feed to appear:
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/jsformat.php">
<noscript><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/">Latest
UO News</a></noscript> </script>
And to use the un-formatted feed, include the following HTML snippet
on your page where you want the feed to appear, then set up the CSS
on your page to make it look nice:
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/javascript.php">
<noscript><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/">Latest
UO News</a></noscript> </script>
PHP
If you don't want to use JavaScript, you can also grab the newsfeed using
PHP (or Perl/SSI). The PHP include
command can, if your install of PHP allows it, be used to read the feed.
Simply add the line:
<?php include("http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/format.php");
?>
into your page (or call http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/read.php if
you want the un-formatted feed).
Perl
If you want to use Perl instead, you can get the same effect using a
small script and the LWP module (which is usually installed on most systems
these days). Add this script to your /cgi-bin/ as, for example, simpleread.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print get('http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/format.php');
You may need to change the first line to point to your copy of Perl and,
again, you can use http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/read.php to get
the unformatted version. With that in place, add the following SSI command
to your page to read the feed:
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/simpleread.pl"-->
Nuke
If you are using a Nuke system, such as PostNuke
or PHP-Nuke, you are
best off including the raw RSS 1.0 feed found at http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/raw.php
CSS
The feed supplied has a number of CSS classes set up. You can set these
in your own page to control the look of the feed if you want. The classes
are as follows:
- uos_main
- uos_head
- uos_hlink
- uos_list
- uos_item
- uos_ilink
And you can see what they affect in this example:
<table class="uos_main">
<tr><td class="uos_head><a href="http://uo.stratics.com"
class="uos_hlink" target="_blank">Star Wars Galaxies
Stratics</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><table class="uos_list">
<tr><td class="uos_item"><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/#newsitem1045096564,4624,"
class="uos_ilink" target="_blank">PA Links of the
Week!</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="uos_item"><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/#newsitem1045095093,90601,"
class="uos_ilink" target="_blank">The End? I Think
Not!</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="uos_item"><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/#newsitem1045068933,46117,"
class="uos_ilink" target="_blank">Holobits, Scout's
Honor! </a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="uos_item"><a href"http://uo.stratics.com/#newsitem1045062624,69595,"
class="uos_ilink" target="_blank">New Scout Diagram</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="uos_item"><a href="http://uo.stratics.com/#newsitem1045033751,71251,"
class="uos_ilink" target="_blank">Random POIs?</a></td></tr>
</table></td></tr></table>
News Categories
Using any of the scripts mentioned on this page will give you a news feed that contains news items from all news categories on UO Stratics. If you want to receive news of one single category, then you can accomplish that by adding a category parameter to the URL you are using.
Example: If you would want to see only the Atlantic shard news items in raw format then you would use the following URL: http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/raw.php?category=Atlantic
These are the different categories you can use: GeneralNews, CommunityNews, DeveloperFeedback, QuestandEventNews, CandidCoverage, Atlantic, Baja, Catskills, Chesapeake, Drachenfels, Europa, GreatLakes, LakeAustin, LakeSuperior, LegendsAOL, NapaValley, Oceania, Origin, Pacific, SiegePerilous and Sonoma.
Other Stuff 
If you want to access the raw RSS 1.0 data, you can reach it at http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/raw.php.
Several programs can be set up to read and parse this, including WatzNew
for which we have already created a channel
you can install. Some older systems, like the RSSNews
plugin for Trillian
Pro will need the earlier RSS 0.9 format, which can be reached at
http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/rss/091.php.
For an extensive list of RSS News Readers visit Google's
Web Directory.
Comments, bugs and suggestions can be directed to Xena
Dragon.
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