Editor: Ara is an automatic editor of RSS feed. Only the links towards the Web pages must be given to him. It is able to retrieve the title and the description of the pages and to produce a syndication file in the RSS format.
It enables you to select the pages to be syndicated instead of publishing the last articles systematically as the generators included in content managers do it.
The program is a set of PHP scripts which have to be stored on a Web site.
One creates a feed from the browser by entering the URL of the interface, ara.php.
It is easier to use the program with two browsers, one to display the pages to include and to copy the URLs from the URL input field, the other to edit the RSS file. Thus by just a cut and paste action one transfers the URL from the field to the interface and one clicks on "Add" to add it to the list.
The EDIT button on the left of the Link makes it possible to modify the title and description if one wants.
To generate the feed, one enters the name at top if the file already exists, or at bottom for a new feed, and one clicks on the Create and RSS feed button.
Warning
Ara is not a simple editor, when a page is added, it is reads for extracting useful information and for this purpose Ara makes use of Ajax (with the Anaa framework ), but Ajax can read files only from the site where it is installed. Actually the goal is to build the feed of the site, just avoid to give URL to other sites.
Several improvements are planned:
- generation of Atom files.
- possibility of using the program remotely from a local station.
- use of the program like Web service for different sites.
