WEBLINES DOCUMENTATION

This software is copyright 2006, by John Best.
This free version is licensed for non-commercial use only and may not be redistributed.

To obtain the commercial version, visit:
http://www.toucanmultimedia.com

Requirements:

PHP 4 or higher.

Installation:

Unzip the downloaded file. Upload weblines.php (or trialweblines.php) to the same directory on your server as the page that will display the newsfeed. Change the extension of the web page where the news will appear to " .php " if it isn't already. Don't worry, this will not affect how the page displays, but you may need to change the hyperlinks that link to it. Add the following line of code to the page in the location in the HTML code where you want the newsfeed to display:

<?php include "weblines.php"; ?>

Note: By default, WebLines is set to display the RSS channel name and information, The item title, and the item description. It is configured to display all items in the RSS feed. It is likely that you will want to change some of these settings. This is very easy to do: Just open weblines.php using Notepad or another plain text editor. Look for instructions at the top of the page for how to change the settings. After you make the desired changes, save as type "All Files" as weblines.php then upload to your server. You will probably also want to customize the appearance of the RSS feed to match the appearance of your web page. Do this by creating CSS styles either in the same document or a separate stylesheet with the following names:

.channelname
.channeldescription
.itemtitle
.itemdescription

To give you an example, the following style sheet and code is used to produce the news feed display on the home page of this website, including the nifty scrollbar:

These styles go in between the <head></head> tags or in a separate stylesheet.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.itemtitle {
font-size: x-small;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding-left:6px;
padding-right:7px;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:7px;
}
.itemtitle a:link {
color:#0000FF;
}
.itemtitle a:hover {
color: #FF0000;
}
.itemtitle a:visited {
color:#0000FF;
}
.itemdescription {
font-size: x-small;
}
-->
</style>

This is the page code.

<div  align="right" style=" position:relative; left: 15px; overflow:auto; width:150px; height:280px; border:thin; border-color:#0000FF; border-style:ridge; background-color: #FFFF00; background-image:none; float:right; scrollbar-base-color: #0000FF; scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFF000; scrollbar-track-color: #FFF000"  />
<?php
include "weblines/weblines.php";
?>
</div>

If you have any problems with the installation or us of Weblines, please do not hesitate to contact support@toucanmultimedia.com .

If you have the trial version of WebLines, and would like to purchase the version with no advertising links, visit http://www.toucanmultimedia.com .