Dave Kellam

I’ve updated the flickrRSS plugin and changed its page address. The release is a little bit rushed, mainly because I’m going to be be away all day Saturday driving to Guelph and helping my brother move.

The big updates are as follows: I removed the bits that relied on allow_url_fopen functions, the plugin now uses cURL . It no longer uses MagpieRSS, Indi pointed out the rss functions built into WordPress (which technically use Magpie). I also revamped the Option panel, it’s a lot cleaner looking now.

There shouldn’t be any big problems with the plugin, but I’ve called it an alpha because it hasn’t been completly tested.

Download Version 2.0a (5kb)

Starting today, Dreamhost is disallowing the use of php’s allow_url_fopen. It broke the image caching for my flickrRSS plugin and also broke an include I was using on my code page. I did a quick rewrite of the plugin to use curl instead of fopen, but I’m going to hold off posting it. I’m going to redo some chunks of the plugin and release it all in one go. If you really need the updated plugin, let me now and I can hook you up, otherwise, just turn off image caching for now.