Planned Improvements on PHP FeedCreator-ppt (1.8.0)

1. -=: Shadow Logs :=- Said:
   December 25th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

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2. KosherJava Said:
   December 27th, 2006 at 2:06 am

   Thanks for the update. I will add the SVN code to PhpGedView in the next few weeks for testing. I already am running it on a test server with no problems.

3. KosherJava Said:
   December 28th, 2006 at 11:11 am

   Code checked in to PhpGedView SVN as can be seen at http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpgedview/trunk/phpGedView/includes/feedcreator.class.php
   and will be part of the next beta.
   Can you add checkin comments to your SVN checkin so that when I go to http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/feedcreator/include/feedcreator.class.php?view=log I will be able to see what changed in each checkin without a diff?
   Thanks

4. KosherJava Said:
   December 28th, 2006 at 11:22 am

   I would recommend that you remove all email addresses in feedcreator.class.php. Among other things, info A T mypapit D O T net (being kind and obfuscating it) is added as a comment to every feed generated by the class.

5. mypapit (Admin) Said:
   December 28th, 2006 at 5:28 pm

   ok, i’ll post a comment of what have been changed on each SVN commit :).

   I think obfuscating all email addresses is a good idea too considering how aggressive these spambots are.

   I’ll continue fixing the ATOM issue, it seems that the ATOM still has a lot of debugging and feature to implement

6. mypapit (Admin) Said:
   December 31st, 2006 at 12:34 pm

   My internet connection has been severely affected by the recent Taiwan earthquake, so there wont be any SVN commits for at least 10 days (until 12-Jan-2007)

   However rest assured, I’m still working on feedcreator particularly on ATOM implementation (bug fix, better integration).

   Currently feedcreator only support a small subset of ATOM 1.0 syndication format.

   Please submit feature requests in Feedcreator Project Tracker if you want to see additional ATOM tags/feature implemented in feedcreator :)

7. KosherJava Said:
   December 31st, 2006 at 2:46 pm

   10 days seems like forever when it comes to being connected :(. Maybe you want to lightly update http://feedcreator.org/ if you can access that without SVN (is ssh etc also affected?). I assume that a web post can be done from any comp, while the SVN cant exactly be done in an interned cafe, so this might affect work on the site.

8. mypapit (Admin) Said:
   January 8th, 2007 at 6:38 am

   SVN commit rev 9, lots of bugfix on RSS/ATOM, other formats pending. I’ll focus bug-squishing on other formats and will implement Podcast support after this.

   I’m positive for a final release around February 2007.

   - The website is going to be revamped soon.
   - Documentation will be provided online, using wiki (know any great php wiki app?)

9. KosherJava Said:
   January 8th, 2007 at 6:43 am

   Tested out the latest SVN version (revision 9) and it indeed solved many ATOM issues. One suggestion that I would make would be to have the guid = link if it is not set, or is empty.
   I currently use the following to generate valid feeds with your latest SVN code:
   $item->guid = $item->link;
   but this should not be needed.
   Also I use:
   $item->descriptionHtmlSyndicated = true;
   and get the warning “summary should not contain HTML unless declared in the type attribute” due to to an   (nobreakspace if it gets filtered out) and other html entities. This can either be fixed by
   some html & some more html ]]>
   or

   I got these ideas from looking at the feeds of Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda linked from the bottom of http://feedvalidator.org. One of them actually has all id the same as the links while the rest use some odd tag URI.

10. KosherJava Said:
    January 8th, 2007 at 6:45 am

    messed up

    <summary type=”html”><![CDATA[<p>some html & some more html</p> ]]></summary>
    or
    <summary type=”xhtml”>

11. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 8th, 2007 at 6:50 am

    Thanks, i’ll look into it.

12. KosherJava Said:
    January 8th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    That was fast :)

13. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Hi there, I’m planning to put a wiki page on feedcreator website so people can easily refer it for documentation/tutorial/tricks on feedcreator lib.

    Can anybody suggest a simple/easy to use wiki software ?
    (php 4.3.x/5.x, mysql 5.x)

    btw, I’m still studying various rss/atom documentations and specs. Will perform SVN commit soon :)

    p/s: podcast/xspf code will be up too.

14. KosherJava Said:
    January 14th, 2007 at 8:19 am

    xspf??

15. KosherJava Said:
    January 15th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    found xspf via google. Is it really an RSS flavor? Any timeframe for the next checkin?

16. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 16th, 2007 at 1:57 am

    hi, i’m expecting to post another SVN commit on Friday Jan 19.

17. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 16th, 2007 at 2:04 am

    KosherJava :

    non-feedcreator related. does phpgedview has an implementation of soundex algorithm ?

    i’m looking for an alternative sondex algorithm, other than the default built-in php’s soundex()

    it is useful for finding similar sounding names – i.e john, jean, shawn,sean

18. KosherJava Said:
    January 16th, 2007 at 3:48 am

    Yes phpGedView has the DM soundex and the Russel (standard) soundex as part of the project (the latter might be the generic php soundex, but I am not sure). Post a message at https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=185165 about this. I am not sure how easy it will be to extract the code we have, but with luck, it will be very simple.

19. KosherJava Said:
    January 18th, 2007 at 6:29 am

    I noticed that there were a bunch of interesting RFEs posted on SourceForge. Have you diffed the code in the 2 forks mentioned to see if they had any interesting enhancements/fixes?

20. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 18th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Yes, indeed.. i’m glad that people start submitting bug report/feature request to further improve feedcreator.

    I’ve checked and diffed the code between the two, and i think if this trend continues. We can make feedcreator more robust.

21. KosherJava Said:
    January 19th, 2007 at 6:20 am

    I would suggest that you do not mark items as closed/fixed until the code is checked in to SVN. People would expect to be able to find the fixed code if it is marked as such.
    Also I am curious about what you found in the diffs with the other projects. What type of enhancements have you found?

22. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 6:22 am

    wiki pages is up, http://wiki.feedcreator.org, but still empty. I might be adding howto and guides from time to time.

23. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 am

    http://feedcreator.org updated, will add wiki link later. Users now can subscribe to latest release of Feedcreator using syndication feeds

24. KosherJava Said:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 7:43 am

    I noticed a 1 line whitespace fix checked in. Can we expect additional checkins in th enear future?
    PS were some posts deleted?

25. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 am

    not deleted, but the database server crashed, so comments are lost since i only make weekly backup

26. KosherJava Said:
    March 7th, 2007 at 2:22 am

    Any progress on this?

27. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    March 17th, 2007 at 4:49 am

    Hi there,

    very sorry for the delay. was busy with university work, being piled up under it! Going to continue to fix all the minor bugs, feature request freeze after this for 1.8.0

28. KosherJava Said:
    March 18th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    I was only bothering you because I wanted to get the final version into the 4.1 final release of PhpGedView, but there is no rush, since I belive the final release should be within a week, and I would not want to introduce any potential issues in the last minute.

29. KosherJava Said:
    April 18th, 2007 at 2:58 am

    Any updates?

30. KosherJava Said:
    May 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Any idea when you might have updates?

31. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    May 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am

    sorry.. might be after this month

32. Locked Said:
    June 8th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Just wanted to contribute some code … and then saw that you already integrated my desired changes in SourceForge.
    Thanks for working on it – I’ll try to contribute the next time :-)

33. KosherJava Said:
    June 9th, 2007 at 3:24 am

    Locked,
    What ideas do you have for future enhancements?

34. Locked Said:
    June 9th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    I wanted to add type=html for formatting reasons and maybe categories to the atom10 writer – and then saw that v1.8 had already implemented this.
    Beyond this I currently have no need for any enhancements, sorry. (There’s a huge lot of other things to do on my site before getting back to the FeedReader :-/ )

35. Locked Said:
    June 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    Just came across a feature that I wanted to add sooner or later to my site: A mediaRSS stream. If I got it right, you can use it for slideshows like http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/index.html
    Just an Idea …

36. KosherJava Said:
    July 12th, 2007 at 1:09 am

    Any update on your last post of May 15th?

    # mypapit Said:
    May 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am

    sorry.. might be after this month

37. KosherJava Said:
    August 28th, 2007 at 3:19 am

    Looks like the spammers hit this list. In any case are there any plans for a release? Your last note was on March 15th.

38. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    September 4th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    Sorry to keep you waiting, I’ve removed the spams. I’m going to put on a release candidate soon.

39. KosherJava Said:
    November 4th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Any update in the last 2 months?

40. KosherJava Said:
    January 11th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    ping

41. mypapit (Admin) Said:
    January 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am

    pong

42. KosherJava Said:
    January 13th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    :)

43. test Said:
    September 11th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    test