Isn't backend.php good enough?
Isn't backend.php good enough?
The backend.php file that comes with most PHP-Nuke distributions generates a feed with a fixed number of news stories for a site in RSS 0.91 format, with the title and a link. This is extremely limited when you consider that:
- Current feed readers may no longer support RSS 0.91, but take advantage of HTML content in RSS 2.0 and ATOM feeds.
- You may want to have different types of content and varying numbers of feed items in multiple feeds at different levels (e.g. the last 5 forum topics from the Announcements forum, or the last 20 topics from General discussion forum).
- There is no preview of the backend.php feed, no support for auto-discovery (though RavenNuke and other distributions have added this), and limited validation for the resulting feed.
- Backend.php has very limited support for FeedBurner.com integration.
Yes, other backendxxx.php files have been developed for other types of content and some even support RSS2.0, but these are still limited solutions for very specific needs. Adding a new content type requires complex development - and still has limitations.
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