Hippo

Hippo

Hippo will be a new Horde 4, PHP 5 application that aggregates content. It will initially be written to aggregate feeds, both internal from Jonah natively, and external (through Horde_Feed). Hippo will work with Horde_Content types and have Input and Output classes. Input classes will allow reading a content type, such as Horde_Feed feeds, Jonah internal feeds, comics, etc. Output classes will allow outputting a "remixed" feed from one or more inputs (such as combining an RSS feed with a few comics into a daily feed).

Bugs

Horde_Feed improvements to suport Hippo:

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6877

Source

Hippo is being developed in the Horde hatchery

People

ChuckHagenbuch is working on Hippo. MikeNaberezny may be interested in Hippo.

Description

Horde_Cache will be used to cache content that isn't stored directly
- Some content types such as comics might include code to fetch and store themselves locally; we might decide that Horde_Feed external feeds should be fetched into a local content table also
- This application should be able to provide the backend for Planet Horde (http://planet.horde.org/)
- Fields to aggregate for feeds: title, url, uid, summary, content if any, content-type for content, date
- During Hippo runs, Horde_Log will be used for logging
- There will be the ability to run filters on Hippo_Input plugins. For instance, if a certain feed has the same junk in every entry, a filter could be attached to the Hippo_Input for that feed that would strip it out. Generic (regex-type) filters should be configurable via the UI; it should be possible to configure any kind of filter in a config file or separate input plugin class.
- This application should eventually be able to replace Klutz
- Additional possible content types include podcasts, content from other Horde applications (iCalendar data from Kronolith), "friend information (http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/building-friendfeed-using-php-part-1/, http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/building-services-like-friendfeed-using-php-part2/), etc.

Changes from Klutz for comics driver

"try to fetch this comic" gives a blank page, though it works

- make "try to fetch this comic" links inline ajax calls

UI updates

default to the previous day's comics if today's haven't fetched yet

have a back-fill mode for fetch? http://example.org/horde/klutz/index.php?actionID=day&date=1217995200

- have the capability, just need to have it in the command-line script

- put the various fetch, rebuild sums, cleanup tasks into API calls.

- use those api calls in backend.php and rename backend.php to some more reasonable admin script

- better error reporting throughout the drivers and backend.php code

- feeds of specified comic sets

- tags? so, political cartoons, sometimes funny, always funny..

Resources

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedly_integrates_with_ubiquity.php

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