By popular demand, I have authored this document to help loadaverageZero visitors understand how the dnews application was built with MagpieRSS, PHP and MySQL. If you are comfortable with these open-source tools, then you should have no problem grasping the logic from reading the source code. I will provide links to the code and data as I describe how they work together to build the interface. There are only two simple MySQL tables that make up the backend of the dnews application: news, from which the "channel selector" menu is built, and feed, which holds some details about each RSS channel. The two are bound together by a foreign key.


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