{"id":11,"date":"2003-09-30T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:34:45","slug":"opml_files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/09\/30\/opml_files.php","title":{"rendered":"OPML Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at ways to make my People \/ Places links on the right dynamic and decided on putting it into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opml.org\/\">OPML<\/a> file.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPutting lists like this into standard or semi-standard formats have many advantages.  OPML may not be the best format for this, I have seen many people say nasty things about it, but I have not seen them offer alternatives?  Further more a number of tools support this format, more on this below.  You can grab a copy of my OPML file <a href=\"\/people.opml\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI wrote a simple parser in PHP using the nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/eric.pollmann.net\/work\/public_domain\/\">abstraction layer<\/a> for parsing XML.  This combined with a <a href=\"http:\/\/smarty.php.net\/\">Smarty<\/a> template now produce the links you see on the side.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedster.com\/\">Feedster<\/a> allows you to search &#8220;friendly&#8221; blogs by specifying a OPML file, you can give it a swing in the sample below, search for something like &#8220;PHP&#8221; or &#8220;Python&#8221;.  Some aggregators, both desktop and online, also support importing a OPML file, so it is easy to exchange a list of links to new RSS users for a simple demonstration.<br \/>\nMore on this topic later,  I am hoping to release the code that generates the side links for other people to use.  But first I need a usefull way to pull output from one PHP file into another without polluting the namespace.<\/p>\n<form target=_new name='feedsterform' action='http:\/\/www.feedster.com\/search.php'><input type='text' size='10' name='q'><input type='submit' value='Search'><BR \/><!-- <input type='radio' value='inrss' name='scope'>My Blog<br \/><input type='radio' value='inopml' name='scope'>Blogs I Read--><input type='hidden' name='searchtype' value='exsearch'><input type='hidden' name='inopml' value='http:\/\/www.devco.net\/people.opml'><input type='hidden' name='inrss' value=''><input type='hidden' name=sort value='date'><\/form>\n<p class=poweredby><font size='-1'>Powered by:<br \/><a href='http:\/\/feedster.com\/'><img src='http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0103807\/images\/buttons\/feedster.gif' border='0'><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at ways to make my People \/ Places links on the right dynamic and decided on putting it into a OPML file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}