December 15th, 2008 | Author: David
There are quite a lot of Flex RSS feed examples out there already, but the format I’m using for my examples here would have made things easier for me to grasp earlier on, so I offer this example in case anyone else out there might likewise have an easier time with this format. This example reads in and displays the RSS feed from my Wordpress-based Flex blog here. Any Wordpress blog could easily be replaced in this example by changing the address of the httpRSS url and any xml-based RSS feed could be as easily parsed so long as the feed’s tags are set properly.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="httpRSS.send()" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"> <mx:HTTPService id="httpRSS" url="http://www.dmallonee.com/flex/rss/"/> <mx:Panel layout="absolute" left="10" top="10" bottom="10" right="10" title="RSS Example"> <mx:VBox width="100%" horizontalAlign="left" creationCompleteEffect="Fade" paddingTop="10" paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" paddingBottom="10"> <mx:Repeater width="100%" id="rssItems" dataProvider="{httpRSS.lastResult.rss.channel.item}"> <mx:Label text="{rssItems.currentItem.title}" fontWeight="bold" paddingLeft="6" paddingRight="6"/> <mx:LinkButton width="100%" textAlign="left" label="{rssItems.currentItem.link}" fontWeight="normal" textDecoration="underline" click="navigateToURL(new URLRequest(event.currentTarget.label.toString()))"/> <mx:TextArea editable="false" paddingLeft="6" paddingRight="6" width="100%" height="50" borderStyle="none" htmlText="{rssItems.currentItem.description}"/> </mx:Repeater> </mx:VBox> </mx:Panel> </mx:Application>
Example: dm_simple_rss.swf
Flex Project: dm_simple_rss.zip
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