Updated Jul 28, 2007 by steveminutillo
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TrunkStatus

What you should know about the code on the trunk

Introduction

The code checked into the trunk right now is alpha quality. When I think it's stable enough, I'll make a formal release called "Feed on Feeds 0.5". For now I guess we can call it "Feed on Feeds 0.4999..."

What seems to work

This version has been fairly well tested on Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.0. It is installed on a Linux host with PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.0. PHP 4.3.2 or greater should work, and MySQL 4 should also be fine. On my server I have two users, one (me!) with about 300 subscribed feeds and another with just a handful. Performance is acceptable.

Favicons can be turned on in the prefs, and work pretty well thanks to SimplePie's detection and caching. Time zone is also now set as a pref.

Private feeds (https and/or authenticated) work, as long as your server has the cURL extension.

For security, I've audited every query and put in place some code to make sure that query parameters are all escaped and are of the expected types. I also added some code to try to undo any damage caused by register_globals, if it happens to be on. I've made sure every page that should require a log in does, implemented a hashed password scheme, and generally checked over all the code for security problems. As far as I know, it's clean.

Tagging has now reached a minimally useful state. You can tag and untag items and feeds, and view items by tag, and even just the new items in a particular tag.

What is definitely broken

IE

I have given up on IE6 completely. IE7 mostly works. Mostly.

Wii

I can't read my feeds very well on the Wii browser! This must be fixed! It would be nice if FoF had a workaround for the Wii browser's lack of tabs, as well.

What is half done

KeyboardNavigation.

Comment by minard, Aug 24, 2007

Yeah, the whole "split pane", floating fixed position thing fails horrendously in IE6.

Comment by nicole.donnelly, Oct 18, 2007

Is this where I come for assistance (if not, please point me to the correct place)?

I did the svn install and it validated properly. I have about 75 feeds entered. The first pull came in fine, but now I am not getting new items (I have verified there are new items on the feed urls). I don't get any errors during the updates. The "latest" time is accurate. "Age" shows the time update was last run. I suspect there is an issue with my install or on my domain because I am having the same issue with fofredux (it was running fine for 6 months then suddenly stopped so I have been playing around with other apps to see if I can narrow down the problem) but I have no idea where to start digging around to attempt to fix this. At this point, it seems to occur with all the server side aggregators I am installing. I tried changing the permissions on the cache directory to no avail (they are at 755 now which is how it was set when I did the install). Any suggestions on what else to check?

I love the interface, BTW, and would love to continue to use this product.

Thank you!

Comment by shaliny.i, Nov 01, 2007

Hi, As the writer above i'm hoping this is the right place to pose queries :) FoF looks very good :)

Is there support for multiple users? If not, are there any plans for this in the future?

Comment by steveminutillo, Dec 08, 2007

nicole.donnelly: If all aggregators have suddenly stopped working, your webhost may have changed a setting that is preventing FoF from working.

shaliny.i: Yes, the code currently checked in to SVN supports multiple users already!

And to everybody: Comments on the wiki aren't really the best place to get answers. Please use the issue tracker to report a bug, request a feature, or submit a patch, or the mailing list for more general questions.