How to create a blogger widget from an rss feed

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1. First you need to create an rss reading feed on your website (turning your rss into html) You can use this template for yours:

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi/?key=ABQIAAAAipyd5uzN4L8Ll3brmslpHxTWFx-CZ4AxZW7rx1DUx0aOrJgFkRS3qP-l2zSyJkgRxvoesjcyE3ez7g"

      type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

google.load("feeds", "1") //Load Google Ajax Feed API (version 1)

</script>

<div id="feeddiv">Loading...</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

var feedcontainer=document.getElementById("feeddiv")

var feedurl="http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.php"

var feedlimit=1

var rssoutput=""

function rssfeedsetup(){

var feedpointer=new google.feeds.Feed(feedurl) //Google Feed API method

feedpointer.setNumEntries(feedlimit) //Google Feed API method

feedpointer.load(displayfeed) //Google Feed API method

}

function displayfeed(result){

if (!result.error){

var thefeeds=result.feed.entries

for (var i=0; i<thefeeds.length; i++)

rssoutput+="<p>" + thefeeds[i].content + "<br> -<a href='http://" + thefeeds[i].link + "'>" + thefeeds[i].title + "</a></p>"

rssoutput+="<a href='http://www.yoururl.com'>brought to you by yourname</a>"

feedcontainer.innerHTML=rssoutput

}

else

alert("Error fetching feeds!")

}

window.onload=function(){

rssfeedsetup()

}

</script>

2. Next you will need to turn that script into escaped code - copy it into this page http://javascript.about.com/library/blscr01.htm and click to turn html to txt

3. Then you will need to create a form on your webpage with a button to allow someone to click to add the widget to their blog - plug your info into a form like this and stick it on your index.php or wherever you want the button to add the widget:

<form method="POST" action="http://www.blogger.com/add-widget">    

  <input type="hidden" name="widget.title" 

        value="Title for your widget"/>

    

 <textarea name="widget.content" style="display:none;">

insert the output from step 2 here - this will be the code that makes the widget - it should be converted from the html into txt by escaping the characters

</textarea>

  <input type="hidden" name="infoUrl" 

        value="http://www.yoururl.com"/>

  <input type="image" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/add/add2blogger_sm_w.gif" alt="Submit button">

</form>

4. Thats really all there is to it - test it to make sure it works.