Using the ‘cffeed’ allows you to read any websites RSS feed and display it within your coldfusion page. The ‘cffeed’ tag is a very easy tag to use and can be very handy when building a RSS display website.
Code to be placed at the top of .cfm page:
<cffeed action=”read” source=”http://www.hostmediauk.com/blog/?feed=rss2″ name=”myRSSFeed”>
Code to be placed within the <body> tags:
<cfloop from=”1″ to=”#ArrayLen(myRSSFeed.item)#” index=”i”>
<cfoutput>
#myRSSFeed.item[i].description.value#<br />
</cfoutput></cfloop>
You can view this working on our Coldfusion 8 servers in the UK at:
http://www.hostcoldfusion.co.uk/
Enjoy using RSS feeds on your website.