About RPR

Short description

RSS Personal Reader as the name suggests is an RSS aggreagtor, that is it fetches headlines from RSS files of web sites and presents them as one, comfortable to read page.

Project state

The project is currently in alpha state. It meens that, the basic functionality is working, but there are many not finished parts.

Key features

• Easy to use - there is no complicated user interface, you can just see new headlines from your favorite web services.
• "Intelligent" in downloading - RPR remembers how often new headlines appears and tries to do get it as often as needed. It also uses the HTTP If-Modified-Since header, so when server is able to handle it, RPR may not to download the RSS file, when it was not modified.
• Personal - User has an account, so he/she can choose which RSS want to see. There are plans to make prioritets and filters for headlines.

Requirements

RPR is writen mainly in PHP (4.x) and uses PostgreSQL database (with stored procedures in PL/PgSQL). Updates are done by a small Perl script that uses DBI to comminicat with the database, XML::RSS module to parse RSS files, and LWP module for download.

Downloading

You can download the alpha release here, and use it under the terms of GPL.

• rpr-alpha-20040506.tar.gz

There is no installation or usage manual for now! In short: just copy thr rpr directory somewhere in web visible directory, create postgres tables and functions using files db.sql and func.sql, configure database acces in file includes/db.sql.

After that, point your browser to the index.php file and create an account. For accounts that you want to have administrator rights (adding RSS), do an SQL query:

UPDATE accounts SET admin = TRUE WHERE login = 'YOUR_LOGIN'

Run the rssupdate.pl script (prefered with the screen utility), it will update headlines from time to time.

Author

Damian Pietras (daper (at) daper (dot) net)