ARA, RSS Feed Editor

ARA is a semi-automatic RSS feed editor. You just need to provide it with links to web pages. He takes care of getting the title and description of the page and creating an RSS syndication file.
It allows you to select pages for syndication instead of systematically publishing the latest articles like generators included in content managers.

The term ARA stands for "Atom and RSS API," denoting the library of Atom and RSS functions. It is also the name of a species of parrot from South America.

Use

The program is a set of PHP scripts that you post on your site.
You create a feed from your browser, you can enter the URL of the interface, ara.php.
It is easier to use a program with two browsers on the screen, one to select the pages whose URL you want in the address bar, and the other to edit the RSS file. So, by simply copying and pasting, you can transfer the URL to the interface link field and click "add" to add it to the list.
The EDIT button on the left side of the link allows you to edit the title and description as needed.
To create a feed, enter the feed name and path at the top (where you can also enter the name of an existing feed to edit an existing feed) and click Create RSS Feed above the edit block.

How does it work

This is an Ajax script with a PHP 5 backend. In the current version, it only works with the pages of the site where the script is located.
You must be authenticated To use it, the install.php program allows you to assign a username and password. This file should be deleted later. After the user logs in, the program can be used throughout the session, even if other pages are read at that time.
To automatically generate content, the program loads the pages in the list and reads the content of the title and description tags from the head section. If the first header is missing, the first header with the H1 tag in the page body will be used instead.
Similarly, if there is no description, the synopsis text will be taken from the page instead.

Download and Documentation

The ARA manual describes the interface and various options, as well as the architecture of the program.
The guide was written using Open Office. You can get the PDF version using the software export command.

The archive includes an editor and all useful scripts, including an authentication system, a Common RSS script for displaying feeds on web pages, and a guide.

After you create an RSS feed, you can display it using the RSS reader demo pages.

In case of problems, the ara directory contains a log file, ara.log, which you can download and view using Notepad.

Prevention

Ara is not a simple editor. When you add a page, it reads it to extract useful information. To do this, it works via Ajax (with the Anaa framework). Ajax cannot read files from sites other than the one on which it is installed. Therefore, be careful, especially since the original goal is to build a site stream, and not provide URLs from other sites.

Versions

• 3.5 - April 28, 2014
  Fixed an issue that could occur when a page did not contain a description tag.
• 3.4 - April 2014
  Resolved compatibility issues.
  Fixed deletion of edit fields.
• 3.3 - December 2013
  The code has been revised for compatibility with the latest PHP versions.
• 3.2 - October2011
  The program has been upgraded to adapt to the latest PHP versions. Login issues resolved.
  Added logoff command.
• 3.0 - January 2010
  The publication date of the feed now changes each time the feed is updated.
  Editing a channel is now mandatory before creating a feed to avoid empty fields that would prevent it from loading.
  The Show button now displays the title and description of the channel .
  Added a Hide button to free up space after the channel is displayed.
  ajax-check.php and ajax-test.php test the system for compatibility.
  Header fields are encoded so that they cannot be truncated on special characters such as quotation marks.
  
• 2.1 - December 2009
  Encoded links that allow URLs containing parameters.
• 2.0 - June 2009
  Caching disabled while loading feed for display.
  Descriptions are broken down into periods whenever possible.
• 1.9 - December 2008 (Thanks to users who reported issues)
  Fixed RSS file path on server.
  Invalid date format except edit form; it is now at GMT.
• 1.8 - October 2008
  Added Optional recognition of the IP address of the webmaster to avoid entering a login. This option is selected during installation.
• 1.7 - September 2008
  Added "Last at top" option, which is enabled by default. This allows you to add the most recent articles to the top of the list, thus preserving the descending chronological order and allowing you to use the feed directly to display the most recent articles.
• 1.6 - April 2008
  Fixed an error.
  The maximum size of the description can be set using the DESCRIPTION_MAX variable.
  The maximum header size can be set using the TITLE_MAX variable.
  The title and description are processed to replace HTML codes with accented letters.
  
• 1.5 - December 2007
  "See RSS feed" button added.
• 1.4 - October 2007
  Displays the channel header with the "view" button.
  The default date is now today's date.
• 1.3 - October 2007
  Improved channel management. The modified URL is displayed, backslashes are removed.
• 1.2 - September 2007
  Title changes were not displayed after editing. Fixed now.
  Extra reverse slashes added by Ajax are removed.
  The default RSS file is in the site source.
• 1.1 - August 2007
  Replaced $ login in install.php, which is global, with $ ulogin, which is local (globals are not always enabled by default). Thanks to Pablo Javier for finding the bug
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• 1.0 August 2007 - First version.

License

The software and all scripts contained in it are licensed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. (Translation). You are free to use scripts on your site, but you must save a copyright notice containing the author's name and links to the author's site.

Produced by Denis Surot .

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