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Planned Improvements on PHP FeedCreator-ppt (1.8.0)

Sorry for the delay caused by my busy study schedule.

Now I would like to outline the planned improvements for the next feedcreator-ppt release 1.8.0 :

  • Improve ATOM 1.0 support
  • Fix HTML encoded description feature in ATOM and RSS feeds
  • Add manual, documentations and more examples
  • Add function to change timezone and encodings easily
  • Add standard podcast support
  • Fix various bugs in PIE,RSS,ATOM feed format

The new release of Feedcreator-ppt (1.8.0) is expected to come out in end of February 2007. You can get the latest development release from Feedcreator SVN server

Any Suggestions?
If you have any suggestions, feature request or bugs, please report them at Feedcreator Tracker at Sourceforge or put a comment here.

When you do, please include pieces of code that produces the feed, the resulting xml file itself and the version of feedcreator you’ve tested against (1.7.2-ppt or SVN) for easy debugging.

I would like to thank KosherJava and various other individuals that has submitted bug reports to improve feedcreator. Thank you, and and have a great Christmas holiday.

[tags]feedcreator,rss,atom,xml,feed,feeds[/tags]

43 Replies to “Planned Improvements on PHP FeedCreator-ppt (1.8.0)”

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

  8. Any update on your last post of May 15th?

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

    sorry.. might be after this month

  10. 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 :-/ )

  12. 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 :-)

  16. 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.

  17. 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

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

  23. 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?

  24. 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.

  25. 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?

  27. 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

  31. 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.

  34. messed up

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

  35. 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.

  36. 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?)

  37. 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.

  38. 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 :)

  39. 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

  40. 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.

  42. 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.

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