These days everybody wants to have fresh content on their web site. Search engines like to see dynamic web pages, where the content is updated on a regular basis. Static pages that have information that doesn't change are not only boring, but less likely to be visited by a search engine spider than a page that changes every time it is displayed.
By using RSS and the MagpieRSS toolkit, you can import data from another web site or news source and display that information on your own site.
First, download the MagpieRSS kit from http://magpierss.sourceforge.net.
Next, unpack the archive, into a directory off your root on your web site called "rss".
Then, create a directory off your root called "cache". CHMOD this directory to 777.
You'll need to know the URL for the feed that you want to display. You can find this by searching for "RSS feed" in Google, or by going to one of the many sites that allow you to search thrown various sources for feeds. Syndic8.com is one, for example.
To display data from a single source, you can use code similar to this:
require_once('rss/rss_fetch.inc')
