WordPress includes an RSS parsing library called SimplePie. WordPress utilizes this open source project to handle the low-level details of parsing RSS feeds. The version included with WordPress (as of 3.1.3) is 1.2. However this is not the most recent version of SimplePie. Attached to this post is SimplePie 1.3-dev which is compatible with version [...]
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Catching PHP Errors, Warnings and Notices
PHP raises errors in a different way depending on the function or object you are dealing with. This presents a challenge for consistent error handling in an application because errors, unlike Exceptions, cannot be caught with a try/catch statement. This article will explain how to tell PHP to throw Exceptions instead of errors so that [...]
HungryFEED RSS Plugin for WordPress
I decided to delve into the world of WordPress plugin development this week. I’m a contributor to a site for film camera gear and we have a page that lists equipment for sale. We wanted to pull in an RSS feed from eBay and display it on a page. There seems to be a WordPress [...]
Phreeze Running as a Joomla Component
Our company has decided on Joomla to manage our primary website, however we’ve been writing code using our own Phreeze framework for several years and have a lot of time invested in these applications. We’re now trying to integrate all of our web properties and provide single sign-on, which is a challenging task. It occurred [...]
Install WordPress 3 with Multiple Domains
WordPress 3 now includes the features that were previously available as WordPress MU. “MU” stands for Multi-User (or Multi-Site) and this lets you to run multiple blogs all from a single WordPress installation. This walk-through will help you configure WordPress to manage multiple sites, each with their own second-level domain (SLD). As you go through [...]
