[#MDL-7946] Use simplepie instead of magpie for rss parsing

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Use simplepie instead of magpie for rss parsing

Created: 17/Dec/06 11:00 PM Updated: 18/Jul/08 12:09 AM

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RSS

Affects Version/s:

1.6, 1.8, 1.7

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None

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simplerss.zip (2 kb)

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MDL-13932 Rewrite RSS block

Participants:	Charles Fulton, Juan Segarra Montesinos and Petr Škoda
Security Level:	None

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We use Magpie for rss parsing and download now - is is buggy and not maintained :-(

There is a better LGPL alternative - see http://simplepie.org/

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Juan Segarra Montesinos - 11/Mar/08 01:41 AM

> is is buggy and not maintained :-(

In fact, google reader's shared item feed isn't parsed ok with magpie. I've tested it with simplepie and works great.

any plans to change this? ;-)

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Charles Fulton - 18/Jul/08 12:07 AM

Includes a patch file for the rss_client block and a wrapper for SimplePie. Patched against 1.9.2

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Charles Fulton - 18/Jul/08 12:09 AM

We've cooked up a patch for 1.9.2 that uses the SimplePie library. There's still an issue with iTunesU streams, but that might be better handled in its own block.