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Our left-column Ajax RSS widget, with a drop-down list of news sites and blogs that lets you check out their current RSS feeds, has been completely rewritten. The code now uses PHP’s native SimpleXML object library to parse all three flavors of RSS (0.92, 1.0, and 2.0) or ATOM feeds. ...
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently discovered that the LGF server was running PHP 5, not PHP 4 as I thought, and I’ve been like a geek in a gadget store ever since. For years, the RSS news and blog feeds in our left sidebar were driven by a PHP ...
Here’s a tech note, also known as an open thread, as I delve into the wealth of new goodies in PHP 5. At some point after installing our new server last year, our gracious, kind, and all-powerful web hosting company upgraded our version of PHP from version 4 to version ...
What have I been doing all day? Wrestling with Javascript variable scopes and JSON encoding, that’s what. Our login system is now fully integrated with the Ajax back-end server. The login form that you see (when you’re not already logged in) at the bottom of a page of comments will ...
Login, Refactoring, Abstraction Layer, MySQL, Database, Ajax, PHP, Comments, Technical Info, LGF, JSON