Improved serial podcast feed generator
This post is deprecated; see the new serial podcaster page.
After thinking about it a little more, I decided it made more sense to have the serial podcast feed generator default to showing an HTML page with embedded flash mp3 players rather than generating just the RSS feed itself. So, I give you the improved version this morning (sample, script source, script + dependencies). You get a really ugly web page–it’s just waiting for you to apply some CSS, though, because I added some <div> items for the header, content, and individual posts. The web page contains the alt link to the RSS feed in the <head>, so intelligent browsers and aggregators will be able to auto-discover it. To access the feed manually, just add ‘?f=rss’ to the end of the URL you use to access the script, e.g. http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/serialfeed/rss-v2.php vs. http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/serialfeed/rss-v2.php?f=rss. If you don’t download the dependencies from above, you’ll need to get the XSPF Web Music Player (slim version) and drop it in the same directory as the main script.
Speaking of web music players, if you know of any free, preferably GPL’d flash players that play mime types in addition to mp3 (like ogg, wma), I’d love to hear about it.
March 8th, 2007 - 8:59 am
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March 8th, 2007 - 12:30 pm
Nice job! Is there an admin page one can use to upload MP3s via the browser? This would make it a great tool for school administrators who don’t know how to FTP…thanks again!
March 8th, 2007 - 2:15 pm
Miguel, I’ll stick to the unix philosophy of “do one thing.” I’d recommend WebDAV, or have a look at this freshmeat search where you can find lots of file upload scripts.
March 11th, 2007 - 11:35 am
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November 16th, 2007 - 11:20 am
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