If you're using PHP to add a newsfeed to your site, please be kind to the news feed supplier and cache the feed if your page is a popular one. I posted a couple of weeks ago ... a link to a piece of code that grabs a news feed .... and I've enhanced it now to do the caching. Here's the modified code:

$feed = "http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?format=rss";

$copy = 1;

if (time() - @filemtime("haggis.xml") < 120) {

        $feed = "haggis.xml";

        $copy = 0;

        }



$fh = fopen($feed,"r");

if ($copy) $saver = fopen("haggis.xml","w");

while ($xmlcontent = fread($fh,1024)) {

        if ($copy) fputs($saver,$xmlcontent);

        xml_parse($parser,$xmlcontent,feof($fh));

}

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