RE: Package thoughts: XML_RSS_Publisher

Cool - thanks for the prompt info Lucas, First - I gotta apologise for the excess messages - Outlook decided to throw a Benny, things went pear shaped (pardon the pun) for a bit :( The main processing engine would be use the XML_Serializer - that's what I'm using at the moment - and why reinvent the wheel? Currently I'm building a hash of categories - either statically or via a database. The Database side of things uses a subclass of DB_DataObject and uses defined links to pull extra items - if necessary. As nothing existed within PEAR already - I thought I'd wrap it up and define an interface. David -----Original Message----- From: Lukas Smith [mailto:lsmith@php.net] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:22 PM To: David Ashwood Subject: Re: Package thoughts: XML_RSS_Publisher David Ashwood wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm in the middle of a project for a client who desires to publish RSS > feeds. > I was wondering if people thought it would be a useful addition to PEAR? > > The package would publish dynamic feeds (from a data source) and > generate/manage static feeds - and would be loosely coupled with > PEAR::Cache. > Optionally I'd also like access to feeds to be support authentication and > maybe authorisation - should it be possible to devise a suitable framework. > > > Any thoughts? I have been using XML_Serializer for this purpose with alot of success. It just takes a few config options ... The following code is taken from a recent workshop on PEAR: public static function toRSS ( $list ) { $data = array( 'channel' => array( 'title' => 'My Ebay items', 'link' => 'http://www.ebay.de' ) ); foreach ($list as $item) { $data['channel'][] = $item->getData(); } $serializer_options = array ( 'addDecl' => TRUE, 'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1', 'rootName' => 'rss', 'rootAttributes' => array( 'version' => '2.0'), 'defaultTagName' => 'item' ); $serializer = new XML_Serializer($serializer_options); $serializer->serialize($data); return $serializer->getSerializedData(); } regards, Lukas