var zoomy = "\n\
\n\ Use Wordpress and create a category called 'announce', and populate it with a few posts. Test to see that the rss feed works. \n\
\n\ \n\\n\ If you're using some sort of nice URLS, it'll look like http://www.yourblog.com/feed/announce \n\
\n\ \n\\n\ If not, it may look more like http://www.yourblog.com/?feed=rss2&category_name=announce \n\
\n\ \n\\n\ Put this in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_index_default.php (we put it at the very bottom).\n\
\n\<div id="announceBox">\n\ \n\ <?php\n\ \n\ $filename = \'http://yourblog.com/feed/announce\'; // Change this to your own feed\n\ $xml = new DOMDocument();\n\ $xml->load($filename);\n\ \n\ $item = $xml->getElementsByTagName(\'item\')->item(0);\n\ $post_title = $item->getElementsByTagName(\'title\')->item(0)->nodeValue;\n\ $post_link = $item->getElementsByTagName(\'link\')->item(0)->nodeValue;\n\ $post_encoded = $item->getElementsByTagName(\'encoded\')->item(0)->nodeValue;\n\ $post_text = substr (strip_tags ($post_encoded, \'<p><a><blockquote>\'), 0, 500); // strip out common tags here\n\ if($post_text != strip_tags ($post_encoded, \'<p><a><blockquote>\'))\n\ { // add read more tag\n\ \n\ $pre_cut = 499;\n\ while( substr ($post_text, $pre_cut, 1) !== \' \' && $pre_cut > 0)\n\ {\n\ $pre_cut--;\n\ }\n\ $post_text = substr ($post_text, 0, $pre_cut);\n\ $post_text .= \'... <a href="\'. $post_link .\'">Read More ...</a>\';\n\ }\n\ \n\ $post_text = str_replace (\'<p></p>\', \'\', $post_text);\n\ \n\ // find the first image of the post\n\ $matches = array ();\n\ preg_match (\'/<img\\s+src="([^"]*)"/\', $post_encoded, $matches);\n\ $post_image = $matches[1];\n\ \n\ \n\ ?>\n\ <table>\n\ <tr>\n\ <td>\n\ <div id="announceImgBox">\n\ <a href="<?php echo $post_link; ?>">\n\ <img src="<?php echo $post_image; ?>" />\n\ </a>\n\ </div>\n\ </td>\n\ <?php\n\ }\n\ ?>\n\ <td>\n\ <div id="announceTitle">\n\ <a href="<?php echo $post_link; ?>"> <?php echo $post_title; ?></a>\n\ </div>\n\ <div id="announceText">\n\ <?php\n\ echo $post_text;\n\ ?>\n\ </div>\n\ </td>\n\ </tr>\n\ </table>\n\ </div>\n\ \n\
\n\ This will work for rss feeds generated by Wordpress, but you'll have to add CSS and style it for your own website. \n\
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