zFeeder is a PHP script used to display RSS content.
It can be used to display other’s content on your site, your intranet or your desktop.
It is also known as an aggregator or feedreader and it parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted.
It supports all versions of RSS (0.9, 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0) and is template driven.
It also outputs wml files to implement WAP sites (for mobile devices).
It is simple to use, implement and customize accordingly to your needs.
It is open source and GPL licensed.
Features of zFeeder rss:
- Simple to include on any php page
- Uses only flattextfiles, and works without SQL database
- Simple to install and configure
- Remote RSS files are cached for better performance and to prevent IP banning
from certain sites which has protection for their RSS files - You can configure it to show what RSS remote file you want
- Stores feed configuration in OPML file for easy exporting to other aggregators
- Supports importing subscriptions from other aggregators
- Supports autodiscovery of feeds (thanks to Keith Devens)
- Bookmarklet for browser to easy add a site to your page while you browse the net
- Administration panel for easy configure of subscriptions
- Template driven so that you can make your own appearance of the content
- Supports CSS templates
- Recognizing RSS versions 0.9, 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 (does not validate them though)
- Online/offline refreshing of feeds via browser or cron
- Multiple categories (subscriptions files)
- WAP (wml) output
Requirements of zfeeder rss:
To install zFeeder you need that your webhost provides PHP (>=4.2.0) support and also has compiled the expat library (which is installed by default in PHP)
It is compatible with most of the bowsers so that all users can view your news. It can run on Linux, Windows or any other OS that supports PHP.
Your host MUST allow outbound connections to other sites.
