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The 2009 RSS News Ticker is a complete solution to display latest titles or RSS news on the website. This ticker can be used as a teaser on the main page of the website

The ticker has an settings.xml file. From this file you can set from where the widget is taking the data. It can be local file (feedUrl='mlb.xml' in our sample) or it can be an RSS feed (feedUrl='www.sportsbooks.ro/sports/en/articles/mlb.xml' in our sample). Please do not include the http since this is compensate by the parser.

For the local XML file you can make a normal RSS structure. The widget would display's a title and an URL to the article. You can add all the item like in the following sample or just title and link.

<item>
<title>St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs: MLB Betting Preview</title>
<link>http://www.sportsbooks.ro/</link>
<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.sportsbooks.ro//images/1022.jpg"/>
Two of the top teams in the National League will play the second game of a four-game set on Saturday as the Chicago Cubs host the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field. It is a key series for the Cubs since they will be playing a doubleheader tomorrow as the last games before the All-Star break.  Saturday’s game on Fox television has Brad Thompson getting the start for the Cardinals whi...]]>
</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
</item>

The package includes a small php parser.

The RSS Logo has following settings: show/hide and change position.

showRssLogo='yes'
rssLogoXpos='10'

Scrolling speed, scroll direction and animation time can be set in the xml file.

scrollDirection='left'
timeInterval='2'
animationTime='1'

The width, height and background colour of the ticker can be set in the xml file. Graphics and fonts can be changed inside the library of the main fla.

widgetWidth='590'
widgetHeight='30'
widgetBgColor='#2b85ce'

newsBgCornerRadius='20'
linkOpenTarget='_blank'

The news has 2 options. One in normal and another in over state where it can be set the background and font color. The radius of the over state can be set in XML. By default is set to 20. The URL of the title has an target option. By default is setup to open in a new page. You can change to a different state if used as a teaser of your own articles.

<mouseOutState titleColor='#ffffff' newsBgColor='#0f0f0f' arrowColor='#ee7207' />
<mouseOverState titleColor='#000000' newsBgColor='#ee7207' arrowColor='#ffffff' />