I am working on a Custom RSS Feed Agreggator (CRFA). The final website will be in Serbian language and it will aggregate Serbian blogs and news. I didn’t want to do it in English, because there’s too many similar websites out there for English language readers. The CRFA is written in PHP (using MySQL database) , and I will use the following third party components:
1) MagPieRSS Feed parser (written in PHP)
2) DOJO – a great Javascript/DHTML library with Ajax support. It has some really cool visual effects such as Fisheye, Modal dialog windows etc.
What’s left to be done:
1) Refreshing feeds repository:
Save the last run date and datacreate a script to go through all RSS providers, reads all feeds created after the last run, and then saves them into a database tableInsert a new post from the RSS feed only if pubdate>=max(pubdate) for that URLPrevent URL caching of a feed on the browser side (add a random number parameter to the URL)
2) Displaying feed data:
Display data from Feeds repository db table.- Pagination (3 days worth of feeds per page?)
- List of feeds that we aggregate
3) Administration:
- add a single feed, and save all rss feeds available when adding it initially
4) Other:
- Implement emailing of a recommended site.
- Forum (or at least a shoutbox)
5) Deployment.
- Host the program on a free PHP server such as Awardspace.com
- Cron job in PHP to refresh feeds repository every 30 minutes or 1 hour?
This post will be updated frequently.
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