Saturday, June 01, 2002

freshmeat.net: Rippy the Aggregator 0.4:"Rippy the Aggregator is a lightweight RSS aggregator written in vanilla PHP. It downloads headlines from a configurable list of regularly-updated Web sites, and merges the items into a single list of all the latest news. Rippy could be used to keep track of several favourite sites, or as an automatic supply of filler material on a public Web site. It uses local files to store its persistent information, requiring no database and no non-default PHP library support." 10:37:22 AM

Novell Developer Kit - Leading Edge:"PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, general purpose, server-side scripting language to create dynamic Web pages. It is similar to ASP because it allows embedding scripts into HTML and is also similar to Perl because it is open source. PHP comes with a wide range of extensions for XML, LDAP and various databases and is typically used in combination with the Apache Web server. On NetWare, along with the standard features and extensions, it is also possible to access various Novell services like eDirectoryâ122, File IO, Server Management, and Volume Administration using the UCS extension (PHP2UCS). Through UCS, PHP can use UCX components, Java Beans & classes, and remote ActiveX controls." 1:11:07 AM