Archive for ◊ 2009 ◊

What is Techtír about?
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | Author: Watty

Most new sites, especially Forums are either hyper focused (iphone or Archos) or as broad as possible. In any case the  aim often is simply Traffic.

Techtír is not just about Forums or Traffic. The idea is a  serious Technology Portal, with serious depth of content.

An important aspect will thus be the Articles.  While post in the Forums will help an ordinary user of a  smart phone, Router, Satellite Receiver or MP3 player, the idea is to have a meeting and Tech Info Clearing house for experts and those that want to be Experts.

Subscribers have much more access and control. Yet you can be recognised as providing good content by being given subscriber status.

There are more ideas too. Head over, signup to free Member level  and take a look around.

Current Featured Post : Which EMC rules apply for PLT?

Also see

Gadgets & Phones eBook Readers

RadioAL’s Wireless History series: Amateur Radio etc Quo vadis?

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XML, RSS, PHP and SimpleXMLElement
Wednesday, October 07th, 2009 | Author: Watty

A lot of people have multipage PHP scripts to read <content:encoded> CDATA part of RSS believing that SimpleXML in PHP can’t do it.

Well it can!

content is referring to  the Namespace used.

viz at the start of the Feed is the clue:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

This Guy explains it well Here is another good post
The Techtir.ie portal has the “posts” content filled in from Forum Posts via RSS by including content:encoded and CDATA parts in the RSS feeds, using only a fragment of PHP in the “post” via SimpleXMLElement.

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