New feature : RSS parser.

Friday 17 January 2003 2:42:59 am

Hi,

I have not made one, but its something i am looking at as a rest project, I am hoping it won't be too tough, i am guessing the SDK has alot of the tools we will need. I'll let you know if i get anywhere, as its a background project that has not started yet. I was hoping to use the SOAP interface to pick up the info and then parse to get the info.

I was going to wait until the full release of eZ3 before i started.

Let me know if you get anywhere with it.

Tony

> Hello,
>
> I think I confidend enough with the r 3.0 to try to design a
> new feature : an RSS parser.
>
> What I plan to have is very much like the module on ez 2.x
> :
> You have :
> * news sites (a new class with the name and the url of the
> RSS feed... as attributes),
> * category (exsiting class folder),
> * news items (a new class with the title, the desc and an
> url as attribute).
>
> I would then create a cronrss.php that will grab the rss
> feeds from the news sites, parse it (using ezXML lib) and
> create a new item object under the news source object (if it
> doesn't exist already).
>
> I've got a few questions :
>
> 1) Does the feature exists already on r 3.0 and am I
> reinventing the wheel ?
>
> 2) How to share that ?
> I will create my own classes with my attributes. It will
> have specific ids based on my own installation.
> What if someone else wants to use it ? Are they going to
> need to create by hand the same template than the one I
> created and modify the code to alter the ids ?
>
> X+

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