pArse

After procrastinating for some time, I finally started writing the RSS parser for RdSplay. I'm calling this set of functions "pArse". I was considering using something like Magpie RSS, but in the end I thought I'd learn more by writing one myself. Also, I wanted to do the HTTP stuff seperately, and didn't want broken RSS1/Atom support yet.

I used the expat PHP extension. I still don't really like it, but my code worked first time. It's about 130 lines of code so far, including the cURL stuff to request the file.

Stuff I need to do before letting this on the Internet:

• HTTP 301 (Permanent Redirect) and HTTP 410 (Permanently Gone) support.
• Temporary redirect support, for that matter.
• Etag/Last-Modified support for caching.
• Error logging.
• Surrounding RdSplay stuff: storage, duplicate checking, scheduled feed checks.

Tags: rdsplay rss / Posted on 18 Jul 2005 at 22:07