{"id":100,"date":"2005-10-06T04:10:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-10-06T04:10:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T08:10:39","slug":"ning-aggregator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/100\/ning-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ning Aggregator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of my work on Ning thus far has been in editing other apps, a large portion of it in testing and QA work. Since the launch, I’ve been taking a couple days “off” — still playing with ning, but at my own pace rather than at a “Almost time to release” pace.<\/p>\n

Today, I built my first complete and clonable app from scratch. <\/p>\n

Planet Ning<\/a> is a planet style aggregation tool, supporting RSS 2.0 fields and the ability to rate any RSS item. This app took a total of about 1.5 hours to put together, a large part of that simply playing with design to get it to look semi decent. It uses the RSS alpha component for RSS parsing, XNC_HTML for the page bottom navigation, XNC_Rating for ratings, and the “bot” option to load new posts. <\/p>\n

Pretty cool little app. One spot of trouble I ran into: XNC_Rating is designed to have only one form field per page. I overrode just one function to fix it though, testament to the flexibility of the code behind some of the XNC components. This is also a testament to Object Oriented code, and PHP 5 in general: in PHP4, I’m sure this would have been much harder, but PHP5’s exceptional class support, along with exception handling, make it so much more fun to work with than PHP4 was for me.<\/p>\n

You can feel free to clone the app and play with it: it’s not ‘complete’ by any means, but it definitely works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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