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Actualy, it is a text database that displays a list of events, The exact content that I would like displayed on the other sites looks like this: http://www.fouye.com/fet/cgi-bin/fet.pl?action=qlist fet.pl is the main script but providing Just the list of events and making it blend with the other persons site would be more than satisfactory thanks
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Re: Re: How do I provide content to other sites
by voyager (Friar) on Jul 31, 2001 at 19:01 UTC
    Looking at your, er, colorful listing, it is going to be difficult to get your sight to blend with anyone else's sight.

    Your choices seem to be, a) provide the entire page (i.e., all the HTML), b) provide the content of the listing and let them suck it up (via LWP::Simple, e.g.) and format it themselves.

    I suspect that the programming capabilities on the receiving end are varied, and insufficient.

    You could just provide the whole page, but via query parms allow for different style sheets to be pulled in. If you want to maintain profile information, you could do all manner page customiziation on your end, such as custom logos, etc.

Re: Re: How do I provide content to other sites (boo)
by boo_radley (Parson) on Jul 31, 2001 at 20:58 UTC
    strip out all of the formatting and provide it in a simple format, such as (as suggested) XML or csv. If you expect anyone to request your content, you need to make it easy to obtain and manipulate. Your HTML appears to be pretty complex, too; the way you've structured the nested tables for the events is beyond my ken -- perhaps it's just to achieve a certain look & feel, but I'd cringe trying to parse or regex that...