Nick Kempinski

When I looked at Storytlr, the key was that I could make my own plugins. Which, I've done with my vi.sualize.us and dailybooth add on's (I'll share them later). But, I had to make some changes.

First, storytlr uses the zend framework, something that's still a little foreign to me. So I needed to add a library that I could work with.

Enter SimplePie

It's relatively easy to impliment. But there were a couple hiccups along the way.

1. Download SimplePie 1.1.3
   note: don't install 1.2 because for some reason, it will end up repeating the same posts over and over and over.
2. Rename simplepie.inc to SimplePie.php
   note: some servers are case sensitive so make sure of naming
3. Drop SimplePie.php into ./protected/library
4. Edit ./protected/application/Bootstrap.php
   

   113:	error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT);
   

   
   note: if you don't then your log file will be bombarded with php strict errors that are just clutter
5. Edit ./protected/config/config.ini
   

   31:	debug = 0
   

   
   note: your could keep debug on (debug = 1) but then others will see all the little errors on your site when something goes wrong.

Now SimplePie is a free for all to use

	private function loadFeed($url) {
		$feed = new SimplePie();
		$feed->set_feed_url($url);
		$feed->enable_cache(false);
		$feed->init();
		$feed->handle_content_type();
		
		return $feed;
	}