Way to update news section of website

Local sports club has a basic website (HTML/CSS/Javascript). Used to display news by adding news item to Twitter then using the Twitter API display the text from the Tweets in a form that matched the website theme.

Twitter has changed their API and now has to include ability to retweet, addreplies etc and look and feel like Twitter, so of no use on the news section of the website.

Is there a simple way of displaying up to 10 text blocks (might be multiline) e.g. from a text file loaded to the server.

I started to look at JSON files but this appears to be for single line records only.

Or can anyone suggest a better way?

Many thanks

Edited by RogerE (Thu 20-Jun-13 11:31:55)

Perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oq5AYKFuTI

Therein lies the problem!

The new Twitter API dictates the feed looks and behaves like Twitter - you must show the user icon, you must show retweet, like and reply buttons, you only have 2 colour schemes and the width range is limited.

Previously the old API allowed you to choose which parts of the tweet you wanted to display, and you could use CSS to make it appear consistent with the website.

We only want to display the news text on the news page of the website - if people want to reply or retweet they can go to the actual Twitter page.

I done something like this a while ago, I'll have to check my notes, but I think I used php for it like this:

PHP
1 23 45 6	<?php     $myfilename = "textfile.txt";    if(file_exists($myfilename)){       echo file_get_contents($myfilename);    } ?>

I'll check when I get home and update if need be

Also see:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines

You can fiddle with the width, and there should be the option to omit replies.

I imagine there's all sorts of customisation options, if you know what you're doing with the Twitter API.

This any use? http://allwebco-templates.com/support/S_script_IFram...

Have resorted to my old programming language (Delphi) and written a program that looks and behaves like Notepad (editing a text file). Then, with a button press the file is parsed and HTML tags are added and the HTML is FTP'd to the server, as newsfeed.txt.

The actual news page was just changed to a SHTML page and the newsfeed page is included, and CSS looks after the formatting and display.