By far, SimplePie is one of the coolest collections of code that helps you mesh together PHP and RSS feeds to create some really dynamic content. After downloading and installing – the number of things you an create with this is only limited by your imagination.
What is it exactly? Here is how the developers describe it:
SimplePie is a code library, written in PHP, intended to make it ridiculously easy for people to manage RSS and Atom feeds.
What Can SimplePie Do For Me?
As an example of what you could do, well – you know popurls.com right? It was made popular for delivering a lot of tiny boxes with content from delicious, digg, reddit and more on one single page. Using SimplePie you can make your own version of it.
Also be sure to check out the demo:
Doesn’t do much (gives you a readable output from any RSS feed) but somebody with some imagination could put this or any of the other powerful things you could do with this to good use. If all this PHP and RSS stuff excites you and you want to develop a new way for people to view syndicated content on the Web give SimplePie a shot. It is hands down the easiest way to get this type of work done.
