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Tasty del.icio.us feeds with PHP

Via open artifact cam this link to MovableBlog’s Integrating del.icio.us with PHP and Magpie describing a way to embed the output of your del.icio.us links in a web page. As always, there are many paths to the same destination.

As frequent readers know, this can be achieved via the JavaScript approach using our Feed2JS service or standalone code. Of course there is a round trip delay for this as a PHP script must be called which then fetches a fresh feed from the source (or loads a cached one). Or maybe JavaScript is just too clumsy for your tastes,

If you are on a PHP capable server, you can install Magie (which you need to do with the approach described via MovableBlog), but if you also use our PHP version of Feed2JS you can achieve the same effect.

The advantage of our approach over the one described above is that it can be repeated quite easily just by creating new shorter series of include statements. For example, below I will use it with my del.ici.ous RSS feed, but 3 weeks ago I used a different set of parameters to the same code. Feed, Rinse, Repeat.

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New Zealand: Believe It or Not!

For the benefit of my fellow American travelers, I am sharing some key learnings that may save them embarrassment, shame, or international ridicule when visiting this beautiful place. Note- this is very much not to be taken seriously! I am writing this on the plane back before it all starts to fade away to the […]

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Feedster Blog Search

Feedster is offering a new search tool to help you find content that comes from weblogs, a handy way to scope your web searches. For the uninitiated, Feedster provides a google-like interface for searching things found in RSS feeds. It offers tools to store your own set of feeds (like another flavor of Bloglines as […]

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Find the Dog

flickr foto Find the Dogavailable on my flickr See if you can locate the puppy trying to get someone’s attention from this truck parked in Rawena, New Zealand. While enjoying a flat white in this cosy cafe in Rawena, I was mesmerized by this simple composition of a truck parked in front of a grey […]

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Truck Humor

flickr foto Pick a Sideavailable on my flickr There is humor on the New Zealand tricks on the highway… often you see pithy sacrastic remarks like “Keep Smoking- That’s Why You Have Two Lungs”, or this example suggesting there are two sides to be passed upon… which one would Robert Frost take? Okay, this is […]

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Wait Til the Dog Sees This!

flickr foto What do YOU want?available on my flickr Are you talking to me? ARE you talking to ME? Are YOU talking to…. can you believe that CogDogBlog will feature a photo of a cat? What is going on here in New Zealand? It is almost heretical to feature a cat photo here in CogDogBlog! […]

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Kiwi Cereal

flickr foto Weet-Bixavailable on my flickr The number one cereal for New Zealand is a giant Shredded Wheat. And you gotta love a food product from the folks at “Sanitorium”! More on New Zealand brands. I am talking all kinds of photos of signs, packaging, labels etc. Look at the size of that “bix”! You […]

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Not So Yummy

flickr foto Not So Yummyavailable on my flickr I cannot get past the smell when the Marmite lid opens- how do the kiwis stand it? As Richard calls, it “axel grease” (but then again, he likes it) I have yet to really develop my taste for this stuff. I doubt I ever will. This is […]