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Sep
15

Single or multiple feed aggregation?

CakePHP, Plugins // 5 comments
I recently published a beta version of my feeds plugin for CakePHP. This plugin was previously the FeedAggregator component, but it made more sense to break it up into a datasource and model, and finally package as a plugin. The datasource is pretty straight forward as it accepts an array of URLs (RSS feeds), fetches each one through an HTTP request, parses the XML into an array, and then returns the result. The model is simply there for your convenience. Continue reading...
Jan
30

Pitfalls within Cake's Cache engine

Tutorials, CakePHP // 2 comments
For the past week I have been working on a DataSource for the WeGame API. Everything was working fine until I added some logic to cache the results. From there I ran into a few problems, here is how I resolved it. Continue reading...