Sunday 25 April 2004

help with XFN - friendly blogroll

Built-in post obsolescence update: Within a minute of posting the following, Simon Willison sent me a fix as well as some suggestions on customizing the individual names. You can take a look at the final PHP file here.

I’m still interested in looking at other examples of modified blo.gs PHP scripts for blogrolling, so if you’ve got an interesting one to share, please hit the comment link below.

My original post:

Hey everyone, I’m working on perfecting my blogroll. I’m using blo.gs to generate an XML document, which is then worked over with Phil Ringnalda’s cool blo.gs PHP script. I modifed that format-wise with ideas from Ethan and help stripping out those bizarre extra slashes that show up even on blo.gs site with help from Drew.

Since I’ve been a pest to them, I’d figured I’d put out a public plea: help me fix my blogroll! I don’t know much about PHP except that I’m a danger to myself every time I start digging around in it! There are two problems I’d like to address if at all possible:

1. My XFN information is being stripped out of the XML file, I’d like it to make it to the final document, because isn’t that the point?
2. I’d like to truncate and/or customize the individual blog titles a bit - is there any way to do this within the PHP script? The XML file gets written over each time someone on my blogroll updates their site, so it’s a dynamic document being delivered via blo.gs, where the descriptions are generated.

Here’s the current XML file, and here’s the PHP blogroll script. I look forward to your insights!

Filed under:   blogging
Posted by:   site admin | 4:19 am |

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