phpNewsfork Version 0.1 (c) 2001-2002 Martin Borho (martin@borho.net) ********* *LICENSE* ********* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. To read the license please visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ************** *INTRODUCTION* ************** phpNewsfork is a lightweighted, browser-based newschannel/weblog interface based on PHP, XML-RPC, RSS and XSLT. It's a client to the xml-rpc-apis of meerkat.oreilly.com and syndic8.com. No database is required. ************** *REQUIREMENTS* ************** PHP >= 4.1.0 -> using following options --with-xml --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot ********** *EXAMPLES* ********** The interface "in action" can be seen on http://www.borho.net/news/ ********* *INSTALL* ********* extract the files in a directory on your webserver. ************* *PERMISSIONS* ************* Permissions:644 ! The server should have write permissions on the newsfork-directory to write a cache-file for meerkat-categories ! ******* *FILES* ******* index.html contains two html-frames. left one contains nav.php, right frame contains meerkat.php OR syndic8.php nav.php displays forms for searching meerkat OR syndic8.com. Meerkat-categories can be expanded (see PERMISSSIONS!) meerkat.php includes meerkat.inc and displays the meerkat-results meerkat.inc contains several functions to send a xml-rpc-request to meerkat.oreilly.com syndic8.php includes syndic8.inc and displays the newschannels found by syndic8.com. Also gets the choosen newsfeeds, parses and displays them.... syndic8.inc contains several functions to send a xml-rpc-request to syndic8.com xmlrpc_m.inc modified file of the "xml-rpc for php"-package, written by Edd Dumbill(c). Add UTF8-Support for incoming responses. Renamed functions xmlrpc_decode() and xmlrpc_encode() to xmlrpcDecode() and xmlrpcEncode() to solve name-conflicts with newer php-versions >= 4.2 ********************************** *FEATURE REQUESTS AND BUG REPORTS* ********************************** Email to martin@borho.net projectpage: http://www.borho.net/news/