Hello forumgoers - what is a 'feed' and how do you edit them?

There are several types of Feeds! Which meens that there are more than one way to send/get/edit data from these feeds..

If you want to change the feed, you will need access to manipulate the RAW data of the feed. or edit it when you recive/read it. before you outputted it.

If you look at a RSS_FEED then normally they are in some sort of XML format.

You can have a look at this to maybe get a better understanding of it: http://www.w3schools.com/rss/default.asp

Theres a tutorial there aswell which shows you how to create and how to read a rss feed.

it all comes down to the programming language on how you can handle the different feeds. And the API of the service that delivers the feed.

Thank you Christer! Much appreciated - I'll take a look.

Any information on XML and APIs would be great! I use http://www.w3schools.com for HTML, CSS and now JQuery, but

It's amazing that you can deliver so much information regularly. Good lord.

I've read some of http://www.w3schools.com/rss/default.asp and I have a beginners understanding of Javascript and XML.

This may be obvious in my next questions.

How does a business share its feed? What questions would you ask the other business? How do the platforms talk?

Lots more questions sorry but the Treehouse team could always use the answers for a video!

Appreciate your help.

Paul

Your question is not at all obvious! its the the exact oposite.

This varies between ALL companies! And most of the companies have multiple ways to share different kind of feeds.

To find out this sort of information you would need to talk to the developer of the company. Just ask the same questions as your asking here. Its expected.

CSV, XML, JSON

Platforms talks by exchanging this kind of data.

ex:

1) Platform1 Send request to Platform2 asking for some data trough some sort of call (Ajax, Rest).

2) Platform2 recives request, collects the data and sends it back to Platform1 trough another request.

3)Platform1 handles the data and displays it.

There are probably thousands of ways to do this kind of action. And there are different types of requests. So you would need to be more specific on your question if you want the exact type of recommended requests/data transfer.

What application language are we talking here? Java, PHP, Javascript, Ruby on rails, Android, iOS?

Thanks for your help Christer - after browsing through your link I managed to install a Google map onto my website too - awesome! Need to figure out getting the locations and data up too.

I'm not sure whether they are using Java, PHP or Ruby but I think if I'm very up-front with questions to developers I should be able to sort it out.

Very interesting that the languages are often markup, but I guess that's no surprise.

I'm going to post another question shortly.