Recently we had a problem with our RSS feed appearing strangely on our homepage. We were using MagpieRSS to read our RSS feed, however apostrophes and other characters appeared scrambled. After much reading and googling, it turned out that our page wasn’t using UTF-8 as its encoding method – and our feed was. So the [...]
An easy way to read an RSS feed with PHP is to use the MagpieRSS library. This provides a simple API to read an RSS feed, and elegantly deal with the issues of timeouts and caching. It’s as simple as: require(‘rss_fetch.inc’); $rss = fetch_rss($url); echo “Site: “, $rss->channel['title'], “<br> “; foreach ($rss->items as $item ) [...]
To export all your RSS feeds from Mac Mail as a list, open up terminal and enter the following on a single line: IFS=$’\n’;for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name “Info.plist”);do grep “<string>http://” $i | sed “s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/”;done Thanks to macosxhints.com for this one!