Book event RSS working really well
Posted by Scott Laird Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:28:54 GMT
The RSS feed from PHP iCalendar is working quite nicely. It’s actually quite a bit more useful then the calendar itself, because (assuming a decent RSS reader), you should see changes as they happen, rather then a monolithic block of 100+ events.
In fact, this is starting to look really useful. If you’re interested in knowing when authors are visiting the Seattle area for book signings and talks, then subscribe to the feed(s).
When I have time, I’m probably going to start generating the RSS myself, rather then using PHP iCalendar, partly to get a better feel for RSS, and partly so I can start including better filtering options in the future.
Nice work! I’ve always wanted something like this.
Is there a unified feed for all the calendars?
If you’re going to start generating your own RSS from PHPICal may I suggest RSSWriter (http://usefulinc.com/rss/rsswriter/) as a very useful PHP library, and using the mod_event namespace (http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/)
Very cool. Thanks for doing this.
There isn’t currently a unified RSS feed. I’m working on a few things along these lines; I want RSS feeds generated in parallel with the .ics files, rather then using PHP iCalendar for RSS generation. I’m also trying to add a few other nifty tricks, but I need to get the RSS generation working first, because the other tricks build on its infrastructure.
The event namespace is new to me, thanks.