Solution 2:
MagpieRSS out of a frustration with the limitations of existing solutions. In particular many of the existing PHP solutions seemed to:
- use a parser based on regular expressions, making for an inherently fragile solution
- only support early versions of RSS
- discard all the interesting information besides item title, description, and link.
- not build proper separation between parsing the RSS and displaying it.
In particular I failed to find any PHP RSS parsers that could sufficiently parse RSS 1.0 feeds, to be useful on the RSS based event feeds we generate at
Protest.net.