Create A Starter Stylesheet Quickly: PrimerCSS

Umut M. — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:35:01 +0000

PrimerCSS is a very simple & free web application that enables anyone to paste HTML and get a starter stylesheet automatically.

It analyzes the code you pasted, pulls out all the ids/classes used and places them into the stylesheet.

The application is specially handy for web designers who write the most part of the HTML structure at first & style it later.

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PHP RSS Parsers

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:13:32 +0000

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PHP RSS Parsers are what many PHP developers looking for these days as every web application or website has some RSS input or output.

RSS parsers make the use of RSS simpler as they have overcame the known RSS parsing difficulties.

WebResourcesDepot have collected the most popular free RSS Parsers coded with PHP:

SimplePie

SimplePie is a PHP code library that makes it very easy to use RSS & Atom feeds. SimplePie is fast and standards compliant as it supports:

RSS 0.90
RSS 0.91 (Netscape)
RSS 0.91 (Userland)
RSS 0.92
RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
Atom 1.0

This PHP RSS parser class has also plugins for favorite web services.

lastRSS

lastRSS is also a simple yet powerful PHP class for parsing RSS feeds.

All RSS versions supported (0.9, 1.0 and 2.0)
Transparent cache (doesn’t cache RSS file directly, neither HTML output, but serialized variable; cached data isn’t parsed every time, but you can still access individual fields)
pubDate/lastBuildDate conversion to any date/time format
Character encoding conversion (all encodings supported by iconv library)
Returns an associative array with RSS fields
Regullar expression parsing (very quick)
Strips HTML from description (both hard-coded and entity-coded)
Optional limit the number of returned items
Two ways how to proceed CDATA information (get/strip CDATA content)

MagpieRSS

This PHP RSS parser class also supports well known feed formats like RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 & Atom.

Easy to use
Parses most RSS formats
Integrated Object Cache
HTTP Conditional GETs
Configurable
Modular

Zend_Feed provides functionality for consuming RSS and Atom feeds. It provides a natural syntax for accessing elements of feeds, feed attributes, and entry attributes. Zend_Feed also has extensive support for modifying feed and entry structure with the same natural syntax, and turning the result back into XML. In the future, this modification support could provide support for the Atom Publishing Protocol.