Hi all, Over the past week Jurrien and I have been pounding on Zend_Feed_Reader (see the Incubator) to get it completed for Zf 1.9 (hopefully!). The core component is now considerably stable and we are performing a round of integration tests on examples of feeds (any type) from the real world to validate the component and pinpoint areas for improvement.
If anyone wants to assist, can I ask you to forward me any feeds (of any type at all) that you believe are worth testing (if they are malformed and broken - all the better!). You can also try out the new component and let us know your thoughts on the API and it's basic usage. For the next week I'm working on Zend_Feed_Reader as much as possible so drop a pile of work on me by all means ;). You should note that Zend_Feed_Reader is now completely separate from Zend_Feed. We have decided to lose the Zend_Feed dependency in favour of homegrown code given its behaviour drifts over time which would force us to complicate ZFR a bit too much for comfort. As a quick refresher - ZFR was proposed to implement a component capable of interpreting RSS/RDF/Atom. As a result, the API is very light and it's designed to search for the requested data across all possible alternative tags and elements existing the standards. This contrasts with Zend_Feed which requires you manually write such an interpretive layer yourself. Once the initial core is released, we'll be moving onto to adding a plugin interface for RSS/Atom extensions to make using this even more beneficial. Best regards, Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative
