The main function of this online service is the syndication (embedding) of news feeds or blogs content. Main features:
- Subscription for news sources interesting for user and its regular update.
- Organization of content for syndication with its subsequent output.
- Feed visits statistics gathering and review and clicks metering. Various statistics grouping (time, bot, sites).
- Embedding the content to the final customers pages via script in for of HTML, Flash.
- Re-export of feeds both for browsers (XSLT styles applied) and robots.
- Own feeds creation.
- Feeds ping in different aggregators.
Technologies:
Architecture Master + Slave server (MySQL Replication) + LoadBalancer (load splitting over slave servers) + mod_rewrite. PHP 4.4 + MySQL 4.1.x (use utf-8)
Implemented solutions:
- OOP xml-parser using php expat library(SAX-interface).
- Statistics collection and review.
- Content syndication by third-party customers.
- Multilingual support.