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• Introduction to SimplePie — Ryan Parman gives you a solid once-over about setting up SimplePie, merging feeds together, auto-discovery, and a few other popular features.
• Adding RSS Content with SimplePie — Chris Coyier discusses more of the basics from another developer’s perspective.
• Quick Tip: Super SimplePie! — Niki Brown quickly shows you how to drop RSS content into an existing page.
• CodeIgniter and SimplePie — Elliot Haughin shows how to integrate SimplePie into your CodeIgniter projects.
• Extending SimplePie to Parse Unique RSS Feeds — Jeffrey Way dives a bit deeper and talks about how to extend SimplePie’s functionality while playing with a little jQuery.

You can find even more tips, tricks, tutorials, and screencasts in the SimplePie wiki.

That being said, we’ll be shutting down the SimplePie Live! service in the next couple of weeks. This will be the only notice we’ll provide (which probably isn’t a big deal because there are nearly zero users). Instead, I would recommend either using SimplePie (for PHP) or a service like Google AJAX Feed API.

SimplePie 1.1.3 is now available (like 1.1.2, “core” plugin will be updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves the one major issue that 1.1.2 created (gzip decoding errors while using fsockopen()), and fully resolves the other major issue that 1.1.2 didn’t fully address (a workaround of a libxml2 bug).

Grab the latest release to upgrade!

My departure was never going to be immediate, but I didn’t expect to be doing this (as Ryan always does this); however, the time has come (for me!) to announce the immediate availability of SimplePie 1.1.2 (”core” plug-ins will be updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves some of the things that weren’t caught until we after released 1.1.1 (including, interestingly, one very major bug that had existed for years — it never ceases to amaze me how rarely the web is sensible enough to do what is obvious and should be done to hit such bugs).

Download the latest release to upgrade!

That being said, I took some time to write down some thoughts about what should go into SimplePie 2, and I would really like to get your thoughts as well. Are there things that SP2 should do that SP1 doesn’t? Would you like to use SimplePie in ways that are currently more difficult than they should be? Are you somebody who has a different design philosophy and you think we should pay better attention to certain things? This is your chance to weigh in with your thoughts, opinions, comments, and other feedback.

Please check out Goals for SimplePie 2. Feel free to edit, change, and improve what’s there. Feel free to argue with what I’ve written. Let’s make this plan better together!

SimplePie supports something called HTTP Conditional Get, which is the process of asking a feed if it has changed before we re-download a fresh copy of the feed. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been noticing a problem with my Twitter status on my personal website, and finally had some time to run a test today to see if my instinct was correct. It was.

When SimplePie asks Twitter for a feed the first time, everything works as expected. However, at the moment, when SimplePie asks Twitter if a feed *has changed*, Twitter says “yes” (whether it has or not), and then sends us a fresh copy of the feed that has *no items in it.*

[Technical: This only seems to be a problem if we send the Last-Modified header as the value for If-Modified-Since in the request. If-None-Match and ETag seem to give the correct response].

I’ve notified Twitter of the issue, so hopefully it will be fixed soon. In the meantime, if Twitter support is critical between now and whenever they fix this bug, you can temporarily workaround this issue. See http://simplepie.org/wiki/faq/problematic_feeds for more information.

http://simplepie.org/wiki/tutorial/how_to_display_a_single_feed_item

If you’ve spent any amount of time in SimplePie support mailing list, you’ll immediately recognize these names. They’ve both been very helpful and influential in the mailing list, they’ve shown a solid understanding of how SimplePie works, and they’re both using SimplePie in projects of theirs.

We appreciate the time they’ve put into SimplePie up to this point, and we believe they’ll be even more valuable going forward as they begin to improve SimplePie itself. Let’s all take a moment to leave a comment and welcome them!