I’ve been meaning to write about simplepie.org for awhile, but haven’t got around to it (mentioned in my podcast, thought). If you’re using PHP to do RSS parsing, use simplepie. It’s that easy of a decision to make right now. I did find a dissenting voice, claiming that simplepie was way slower than magpie – I didn’t find that to be the case. I will likely be converting pfblogs.com to use simplepie in the coming weeks, as it greatly simplifies RSS parsing, deals with timezones, differing RSS/Atom tags, and a host of other niceties that magpie doesn’t do.
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A bit about me
I've been working with the web since 1994, and with a variety of web technologies since 1996 - PHP, ASP, Perl, CF, Java, Grails and .Net. My main areas of expertise are in PHP and Grails these days.
I run GroovyMag and JSMag, monthly PDF magazines focused on Groovy and JavaScript, and also host the WebDevRadio podcast series.
I can be reached at michael@kimsal.com or mgkimsal@gmail.com :)
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