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I've been toying around with the idea of listing my band's show dates on Ralford.net. The problem is that I didn't want to manually update the wiki every time we schedule a gig. So, I was thinking that if I had an RSS feed of dates from our Myspace page, I could display them on the fly.

The problem is that Myspace doesn't currently support RSS feeds. So I found someone who wrote a PHP script that parses a band's Myspace page and turns their dates into an RSS feed: RSS feeds for MySpace shows.

It wasn't plug and go (since I use an older version of PHP for testing), but with that done, I had a working RSS feed of our dates. Next, I found a website that generates a graphical module to display the RSS feed. All I had to do was become a member of SpringWidgets.com, and create a widget using my RSS feed.

The result is a wiki page that is a mirrors all dates listed on our Myspace page:
Cootie Brown (w).

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