News Around the World

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News Around the World

• Juweria Muqtadir

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Website in action

• http//people.emich.edu/jrehman/IS449mini/Iteratio
  n2/mainiteration2.html

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Component of the Website

• Html mainiteration2.html
• An event is triggered when option from drop down
  box is selected
• Then, function called showRSS() is executed.
• A div "rssOutput holds the data returned from
  the showRSS() function.
• JavaScript mainiteration2.js
• The showRSS() Function is executed every time an
  option is selected in the input field.
• Defines the url (filename) to send to the server
• Adds a parameter (q) to the url with the selected
  option from the drop down box
• Calls on the GetXmlHttpObject function to create
  an XMLHTTP object
• Opens the XMLHTTP object with the given url.
• Sends an HTTP request to the server
• PHP mainiteration2.php
• PHP finds out which RSS feed was selected
• An XML DOM object is created for the selected RSS
  feed
• The elements from the RSS feeds are found and
  outputted

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Diagram of web in action
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Questions