5 posts tagged “feeds”
The recent reviews feed is now on the Trizzle staging site so you can try it out if you like. You can either go to the recent reviews page:
http://trizzle.fozboot.com/beta/trizzle/musicam/recent-reviews.php
and you should see a feed icon automatically appear. Or you can go the feed directly at:
http://trizzle.fozboot.com/beta/trizzle/feeds/reviews-feed.php
I've only looked at the feed in Safari and NetNewsWire, so I would be interested to see if it works in other clients.
In other news, I figured out the mysql 5 issue, so I should be able to move all of the new code to the production site tomorrow.
I spent more time on feeds today. I didn't really intend to spend my whole weekend on this, but once I get really into something like this, it's hard to stop. As you can see, I solved at least two of the issues I noted in my last post: action links and better entry titles.
I solved the feed time issue this morning, and also fixed the links. So the feed is at least usable enough for an alpha release. I really want to put this on the production site so other people can try it out, but to do that I have to figure out the mysql 5.0 giznank.
The feed is by no means, done by any means. I can already see the need for the following improvements:
- Something that serves as a call to action for the user. Obviously they can click the entry link to see the review, but there should also be something that invites them to review the artist, album or song, as well.
- The feed entry should show the tags (linked of courses) that the user applied during that reviewing event.
- There needs, either in the feed entry title or body, more metadata given because while for artists it's pretty clear what's going on, saying "fozboot reviewed the song Neighorhood #2 (Laika)" may not mean much to anyone who isn't an Arcade Fire fan.
As you can see, I imprroved the entry titles, and am now usin the actual date review instead of the hard-coded date from the example script. I'm not sure what timezone my feed thinks it's in–it seems to be about eight hours behind PST, and I don't even know if that's possible. If you go that many time zones east, you cross the international dateline, and it's then tomorrow (the 18th.)
It's not very pretty, and all of the dates say Cinco de Mayo, 2002, but it is a feed. I'm trying out a php class I downloaded tonight called RSS Writer, by Manuel Lemos. So far it's working well, but I do need to figure out what to do with the dates. I guess I should just put the date of the review in there.
