Paddy, I guess, I can build a basic aggregator which finishes the first 3 steps. I guess drupal's aggregator covers the first three steps and I always love to work with drupal.
Firstly, I need to build an aggregator which deals with non-PuSH enabled feeds. I wanted to build this aggregator for bloggers from a specific region in India, and I'm 100% sure that no one of them is PuSH as they are not much aware about technical stuff. So, I can think of PuSH enabled feeds in the second version of my aggregator. I agree with Matthew that Wordpress doesn't have a client-like plugin. All plugins made for Wordpress are just usable by the publishers and I cannot ask my users to install those to their blogs as many of them are using blogger. And, if I ask 'em to install to their blogs, why would they need me? I need to build a successful aggregator for 'em. Anyways, I'll look through your work and try to understand it. I'll get back as soon as I try it. Vimal On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Terenzio <[email protected]>wrote: > Pádraic, That's neat. I hadn't seen the ZFPlanet thing before. > > Regarding the Wordpress plugin. If you refer to Joseph Scott's plugin I > believe it acts as a publisher or a hub. I haven't seen anything that acts > like a client in Wordpress yet, which would probably be what you need to > make an aggregator. > > I'm working on that now in case someone knows of something I missed. I hate > to waste/duplicate effort. ; ) > > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Pádraic Brady <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Vimal, >> >> The question depends on a lot of factors, so I'll stick to broad design >> approaches and offer an example in PHP you can examine in detail. >> >> The main thing is that any current aggregator has to deal with both PuSH >> enabled and non-PuSH enabled feeds. So you're really building two distinct >> systems. Obviously building in twice the complexity isn't a great idea so a >> good approach is to keep the following separate: >> >> 1. Polling of feeds. >> 2. Processing of feeds. >> 3. Handling of processed entries. >> >> This is the core of any aggregator but the separations are important once >> you bring in PuSH. Adding PuSH includes adding: >> >> 4. PuSH processing (callbacks, subscriptions, unsubscriptions) >> >> But with the first three, you can reuse 2 and 3 for all incoming PuSH >> notifications. It's a common aggregator mistake to merge the polling >> (fetching) with the processing making them hard to separate and reuse for >> PuSH. >> >> Onto the example, I created a demo application for PuSH (a simple >> aggregator) for the Zend Framework (PHP). In the application, all processing >> is performed within a Model (this takes over from the moment a feed is >> either polled or received via PuSH notification callbacks). You can find the >> source code at: >> >> http://github.com/padraic/ZFPlanet >> >> Please feel free to ask any questions on how it operates on or off list. >> It gives a broad example of the database schema, the use of >> Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub (if your question is related to PuSH implementation >> itself you can look there also - http://framework.zend.com), and some >> simple scripts for use with cron to schedule polling. You should also note >> that Wordpress and Drupal both have PuSH plugins/modules you may want to >> research depending on how/if your aggregator is being built on either of >> these platforms. >> >> Paddy >> >> Pádraic Brady >> >> http://blog.astrumfutura.com >> http://www.survivethedeepend.com >> OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative<http://www.openideurope.eu/> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* vimal <[email protected]> >> *To:* Pubsubhubbub <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Fri, April 16, 2010 7:17:59 PM >> *Subject:* [pubsubhubbub] Aggregator with Pubsubhubbub? >> >> Hey guys, I was wondering how to make an aggreagtor with PuSH. I >> couldn't figure out how to start with it. I just developed websites >> with drupal and wordpress before. Can you please explain me the basics >> to start with an aggregator with PuSH? Please? >> >> >> -- >> Subscription settings: >> http://groups.google.com/group/pubsubhubbub/subscribe?hl=en >> > >
