This is a fun thing I built that uses PHP and YQL to get feed content from a variety of services. It then uses Isotope to display and filter the items by service.
- Youtube
- Github
- Picasa
- Google Reader
- Flickr
- More to come!
- Custom date format - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
- Number of weeks to search back for items.
- Where to store a cache file.
- Time to store the cache file for.
- Takes variables from includes/options.php.
- Checks if there's a cache file and displays it if there is one.
- If not...
- Creates a multidimensional array. Each entry has a subarray with the unix time, the title, the content, the source, the time in a readable format, a direct link to the item, and any custom css classes to be added to the item.
- Adds an item that has a Promote JS image in it. This has a random unix time value that's in between the current time and however long ago the timeframe is set to.
- For each service, it adds items to the multidimensional array and stops once it reaches the time limit.
- Sorts the multidimensional array by the time (descending).
- Starts creating the cache file.
- Runs each item in the multidimensional array through the item.template.php file and creates a
li. - Generates the cache file and ends the caching process.
Built by Cameron Little.
The layout and filtering uses Isotope by David DeSandro / Metafizzy
Social media icons (except for the all items icon) by http://www.ormanclark.com/blog/free-vector-social-media-icons/Orman Clark.
YQL stuff: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-build-an-rss-reader-with-jquery-mobile-2/
Twitter/Github string replacement and caching: http://f6design.com/journal/2010/10/07/display-recent-twitter-tweets-using-php/