I am working on a website and am trying to figure out how to include live news headlines from websites like rootly.

Basicly im looking for a good tutorial on what I need to do to get a customizable news headline bar.

Example of what i want to do is simple: www.distrowatch.com

A couple of columns down on the left you will see Linux/Unix News and the rootly logo.

Thanks guys.

Look for "news syndication" or "site news aggregators" on the scripts sites or google. Many options are available to do this.

If your ambitious, you could use the PHP SimpleXML extension to parse the feed, and put the headlines in an array, then display them using a foreach loop.

Also, http://www.rootly.com/tools/widget/ is exactly what you want (I think)