Fiwnin News (Category News)

Requests:

Category News

Summary

Sample Code:

Coldfusion

ASP

JSP

PHP

Perl

About Finwin News (Category News)

Finwin News (Category News) returns a WDDX structure recordset with 5 categories with 5 headlines under each category. The categories returned are:

Commodities

Economy

FeaturedArticles

International

LatestHeadlines

Each structure also contains the storyID that you can use to link to the full text of the headline. The date the headline was added. The headline itself and a lable that can be used as a shortened text link.

Required Parameters

URL = http://www.finwin.com/processct/processnewstag.cfm Username = myUsername
Password = myPassword
Id = myFinWinID
Request = CatNews

Optional Parmeters

Type - Query | Array (Default = Query)

Example WDDX and XML Packets

Query example
Array example

Cold Fusion Example

       <cf_finwinnews
	request="CatNews"
	type="Query"
	queryname="GetHeadlines"
	username="myUsername"
	password="myPassword"
	id="1183">
	
<cfif IsStruct(GetHeadlines)>

  <Cfloop list="#structkeylist(GetHeadlines)#" index="x">
     <cfoutput>#x#	=    #evaluate('GetHeadlines.' & x)#</cfoutput>
  </CFLOOP>

</cfif>

ASP Example

Request_POST = 	1
Set HttpObj  = Server.CreateObject("SOFTWING.AspTear")
FinwinURL 	 = "Http://www.finwin.com/processCT/ProcessNewsTag.cfm"

PostData = "username=MyUserName&password=mypassword&id=1183&request=catnews&type=query"

content = HttpObj.Retrieve(FinwinURL, Request_POST,PostData, "", "")
Response.write(content)