The Zend Framework in Practice

I have described how to use Zend_Feed to retrieve a digest of a blog’s latest entries in a previous post. In the overall implementation described in my series of posts, this digest is fetched every time a page is loaded. Although, by using AJAX techniques, this does not slow the loading of the basic page, it does result in some unnecessary repetitive work, since the blogs are not updated that often. In this post, I shall look at how I am using caching on the recently revamped GM-RAM website to save the results and reuse them. (more…)

The feed digest helper is used to fetch a list of the most recent items posted on a blog, using its RSS feed. (more…)