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 4 ...
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 ...
The links posted by the LGF community now have their own RSS feed, through Feedburner; here’s the address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LittleGreenL inks. There’s also a link to this feed in the left sidebar’s “Tools/Info” menu. The feed contains the last 50 links posted, in reverse chronological order. The title of each link goes to ...
LGF, Tech Note, RSS, Syndication, XML, Feedburner, Spinoff Links
Yes, another one. I’ve been on a programming binge, taking a lot of my pre-existing procedural PHP and slowly, carefully transmuting it to nice shiny object oriented code. The latest section of the LGF Blog codebase to come under the microscope is the RSS feed reader, especially on the LGF ...
LGF, Technical Info, CSS, PHP, HTML, PEAR, Google, Search, SOAP, RSS, XML