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I went through my code over and over to make sure I didn’t do anything wrong, or that anything was missing and finally started looking to the web. Turns out, that as of mid-July, Dow Jones has made their data unavailable in XML format “for consistency” they say. Which means since Yahoo won’t be sending that along anytime soon. I’m sure there is a money issue behind it all.

I’m annoyed, my client is a little bummed. They liked the ease and simplified look of it all, but we are still looking for another solution. I was hoping, since they are a business, any financial tools and data they subscribe to, might offer a way or a url for us to pull in the data. As of yet, I have no DJI data available to me.

If you figure something out, please let me know. Sorry for the bum news though.

Yeah, they were running Microsoft SQL server, sorry I didn’t clarify that better. I have them installing MySQL 5, but I thought I read somewhere that WordPress previously had problems with certain MySQL versions in a Windows environment (specifically password/database connection). Is there anything specific I should have them install?

Can someone help me? The person who is doing the hosting can only run the latest MySQL version and PHP 4.4.8. Is this okay for WordPress on Windows 2003??

So I solved the problem on how to automate the titles for my client with this code:

<h1>Latest News</h1>
<ul class="latest-news">
<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=3');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
    <li><span class="post-info"><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></span><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Thanks for the suggestion samboll, I might be able to use that plugin in the future.

t31os_: I bet that’s exactly what I did! Thanks. Maybe I should call it quits after a certain number of hours, my brain might function better. 🙂

An idea: If I had a list of trails in the database, how could I pull them to the frontend in a nice interface. First, how would I create the list in the database?