Documentation: services/slashdot_codec.php

Class slashdot_Codec extends Codec - Encoder and decoder for slashdot messages

Messages

At the moment, this script gives following information for each resource:

title - the title of the article
url - the absolute url to fetch the article
time - the date and time of article last modification
author - the last contributor to the article
section - the label of the section from where the article is originated
image - the absolute url to fetch a related image, if any

You will find below an excerpt of a real feed from slashdot:

<?xml version="1.0"?><backslash
xmlns:backslash="http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd">

	<story>
		<title>Recording Industry Extinction Predicted RSN</title>
		<url>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1236242</url>
		<time>2003-01-23 17:00:05</time>
		<author>michael</author>
		<department>imminent-death-predictions-getting-boring</department>
		<category>141</category>
		<comments>107</comments>
		<section>articles</section>
		<image>categorymusic.gif</image>
	</story>

 ...

<story>
	<title>Using Redundancies to Find Errors</title>
	<url>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/0221242</url>
	<time>2003-01-23 04:20:58</time>
	<author>timothy</author>
	<department>the-error-is-right-around-here</department>
	<category>156</category>
	<comments>270</comments>
	<section>developers</section>
	<image>categoryprogramming.gif</image>
</story>

</backslash>

This script is a reference file of this system.

Voir aussi:

services/codec.php

Licence: GNU Lesser General Public License

Auteurs:

Bernard Paques bernard.paques@bigfoot.com

export() - Build a XML request according to the slashdot API

function export($service, $parameters)

$service - array of $url => $attributes
$parameters -
returns an array of which the first value indicates call success or failure

Called by export_request() and export_response() to actually build a list of resources.

Parameters is an array of $url => $attributes describing articles. Attributes are split according to the following syntax:

list($time, $title, $author, $section, $image, $description) = $attributes;

export_request() - Build a XML request according to the slashdot API

function export_request($service, $parameters)

$service - string name of the remote service
$parameters - array of $url => $attributes
returns an array of which the first value indicates call success or failure

Example:

$result = $codec->export_request($service, $parameters);

Parameters is an array of $url => $attributes describing articles. Attributes are split according to the following syntax:

list($time, $title, $author, $section, $image, $description) = $attributes;

Voir aussi:

services/codec.php

export_response() - Build a XML response according to the slashdot API

function export_response($values=NULL, $service=NULL)

$values=NULL - array of $url => $attributes
$service=NULL - string name of the remote service
returns an array of which the first value indicates call success or failure

Example:

$result = $codec->export_response($values);

Parameters is an array of $url => $attributes describing articles. Attributes are split according to the following syntax:

list($time, $title, $author, $section, $image, $description) = $attributes;

Voir aussi:

services/codec.php

import_request() - Parse a XML request

function import_request($data)

$data - array the received $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
returns array the service called and the related input parameters

import_response() - Decode a XML response

function import_response($data, $headers=NULL, $parameters=NULL)

$data - string the received HTTP body
$headers=NULL - string the received HTTP headers
$parameters=NULL - mixed the submitted parameters
returns an array of which the first value indicates call success or failure

parse_tag_open()

function parse_tag_open($parser, $tag, $attributes)

$parser -
$tag -
$attributes -

parse_cdata()

function parse_cdata($parser, $cdata)

$parser -
$cdata -

parse_tag_close()

function parse_tag_close($parser, $tag)

$parser -
$tag -