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AOEMedia Sponsoring Magpie

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:55:57 -0700

AOE media, a TYPO3 & open source provide from Germany, recently agreed to become a sponsor on Magpie. Which is very exciting!

Looking around I see being sponsored by AOE Media puts me in good company as they sponsor a number of interesting projects, including my favorite wiki software Doku

I’m hoping this will allow me to actually spend a little time with Magpie, maybe finally find the time to re-vamp the website into something a little more functional.

And last if you’re someone interested in sponsorship work as a whole on Magpie, or specific feature development get in touch.

Thanks again AOE Media.

Magpie RSS Frequently Asked Questions

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:20:31 -0800

MagpieRSS - PHP で使える RSS パーサー。

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:41:38 -0800

Creating a Custom RSS Feed Aggregator

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:31:05 -0700

Issues with MagpieRSS

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:19:58 -0700

MagpieRSS isn’t perfect, there are a number of issues with using it.

Some versions of Magpie do not parse <category> tags correctly, it concatenates all the category strings into a single long category instead of making an array of categories.
By default, as with PHP in general, Magpie does not output UTF-8, instead it will output ???? ???? characters. To resolve this, add define(“MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING”, “UTF-8”); to Magpie.
Namespace confusion. Magpie treats namespaces the same as encapsulating elements, so <dc:subject> would map to an array subject in an array dc. This can result in collision if a real encapsulating element name collides, ie <dc><subject/></dc>. This is intentional, as MagpieRSS intends to make dealing with namespaces less complicated.
Local RSS cannot be accessed. If there is an RSS feed on the local drive, MagpieRSS doesn’t support accessing it directly.
RSS feeds requiring Cookies are not supported
Local proxies are not supported

Note: Some of these issues are by design. Namespace simplification in particular makes it easier to work with RSS feeds.

Also a development build is available that addresses some issues as MagpieRSS progresses towards version 0.8.

Documentation

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:54:41 -0700

MagpieRSS makes it quite easy to fetch RSS feeds in PHP.

To get an array of RSS items from an RSS URL:


require('rss_fetch.inc');
$rss = fetch_rss($url);
$rssItems = $rss->items;

That’s it!

do a var_dump on the $rss->items array to see the RSS feed in MagpieRSS’s simple array structure.