Subj : Writing custom script
To   : Digital Man
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Apr 07 2006 09:48 am

  Re: Writing custom script
  By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Thu Apr 06 2006 09:39 pm

 >   Re: Writing custom script
 >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Thu Apr 06 2006 05:50 pm
 > 
 >  > Hello all,
 >  >
 >  > Okay, I'm no JS programmer, but I'd love to learn.  One project I think
 >  > might be fun to write plus useful is something that'll take an RSS Feed a
 >  > plug the downloaded media files into a file area then use details from th
 >  > XML file to create details.  Problem is I have no idea where to start!
 > 
 > RSS-fed media files?!? The RSS feeds I'm aware of feed *text* (snippets of n
 > articles with the links to the full article).
 > 
 >  > For those seasoned in JS and how it works with Sync, would this be a dece
 >  > first project to attempt?  I used to program in C++ many years ago in
 >  > MS-DOS, but it's been literally 7-10 years since I wrote a piece of code.
 >  > Currently I mainly program for web, so that's PHP and ColdFusion, but I
 >  > wnat something that'll be portable and something I can share with others
 >  > easily, which is why JS might be best.
 >  >
 >  > Thanks for any advice or maybe pointers to do some Hello World apps with 
 >  > and Sync.
 > 
 > http://synchro.net/docs/js.html
 > 
 > There are ton of examples in exec/*.js.
 > 
 > print("Hello, world\r\n");
 > 
 >                                                   digital man
 > 

Hi DM,

Sorry, I should've said Podcasts, which are basically RSS feeds with files 
attached.  I was thinking something that would download and parse the XML 
file of the feed, stick the data into the file info then place the file 
(generally MP3 ) into the file area.  Some of the podcasts I listen to 
don't keep but a few of the files available on their sites, so 'd like to 
keep an archive on the BBS.

Thanks for the reply and the links -- I'll start checking them out!

Sam


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