Friday, December 5, 2008

Final Project Progress

Update: Perhaps it would be helpful if I actually included a link!



My project is coming along! I have to say it's looking better than I imagined it. It's supposed to be a news aggregator where you can see article summaries at a glance (similar to the layout of a newspaper). I still need to fix the article formatting and the selection of which news feeds to share. Currently, I'm only using Yahoo news feeds because they look the best. I intend to add a lot more bells and whistles including:
  • user login & registration (mySql)
  • sectional navigation
  • pagination (maybe using Javascript)
  • search
  • comments and favoriting - I wanted to do this by connecting the Simplepie feeds to a mySql database. The problem is that Simplepie will be adding support for this into it's next version. This is something I am still trying to figure out, so far it's not working.
By the way, I would love for some help naming the site. FeedMe News sounded really great a few days ago. Now it just sounds silly. :)

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