[UPHPU] meeting tomorrow night on parsing RSS

[Brandon Stout]

UPHPU Administrator wrote:

> Don't forget! Our December meeting is tomorrow night. Brandon Stout
> will be presenting on RSS parsing with PHP5 vs PHP4.
> Thursday, 21 December 2006 @ 19:00
>
> http://uphpu.org/about/meetings
>
> An outline of his presentation:
>
> 1.    RSS 1.0 and 2.0 Anatomy
> 2.    A MySQL 5.0.x Database Structure
> 3.    SQL Statements (for the tables)
> 4.    Begin XHTML Document to Report Parse Results
> 5.    Connect to the MySQL Server
> 6.    Prepare to Parse
> 7.    PHP 5.x DOM Extension
> 8.    Parse the RSS Feeds into the `feed` Table
> 9.    MySQL MATCH ... AGAINST
> 10.    Match Keywords Against The Feeds... Sorted By Relevancy
> 11.    Using PHP 5 with Google RSS (No DB Needed)

After these points, given time, I'll compare this with php 4, where I'll
use a PEAR extensions instead of PHP4's DOM XML extension.

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org