ALL BLOGS update

I made a little update to the ALL BLOGS script. Apparantly I heard complaints of it being slow and sometimes it didn’t even show up!

Now, as it is working its way through the various websites, it’ll give you a little status update on what it is doing now. I hope nobody minds! Actually I think the tech junkies might actually like the feature. As always, I am open to suggestions.

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3 Responses to “ALL BLOGS update”

gok Says:
January 30th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Very cool.
gok Says:
January 30th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
While I like the idea of the whole automatic sort, To be honest, the frames look a little kludgy. Can you not just render the RSS into HTML and provide links to the latest posts?

(I’m assuming you are able to get blogspot RSS and squarespace RSS. If you are not, what are you basing your sort on?)
Pranav Says:
January 30th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Yeah I could do that. As of now, I get the ENTIRE RSS into a String variable and then search through that string variable for a particular keyword. That keyword tells me that the date is the next 20 or so characters in the string.

So, I extract those charactgers and convert them to the UNIX time format. From there on, it’s a simple Sorting algorithm (BUBBLE SORT) and then the rendering of frames.

So, in order to display the RSS in an HTML format, I’d have to write much more complicated code. Not that I’m not willing to do it - It’s just that it is too time consuming. You are welcome to look at my existing code if you want to expand it. It’s just plain PHP.