phpNewsfork Version 0.1
(c) 2001-2002 Martin Borho (martin@borho.net)

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*LICENSE*
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
To read the license please visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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*INTRODUCTION*
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phpNewsfork is a lightweighted, browser-based newschannel/weblog interface based on PHP, XML-RPC, RSS and XSLT.
It's a client to the xml-rpc-apis of meerkat.oreilly.com and syndic8.com. No database is required.

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*REQUIREMENTS*
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PHP >= 4.1.0  -> 
using following options
--with-xml
--enable-xslt
--with-xslt-sablot

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*EXAMPLES*
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The interface "in action" can be seen on http://www.borho.net/news/

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*INSTALL*
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extract the files in a directory on your webserver.

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*PERMISSIONS*
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Permissions:644
! The server should have write permissions on the newsfork-directory to
write a cache-file for meerkat-categories !

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*FILES*
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index.html
contains two html-frames. left one contains nav.php, right frame contains meerkat.php OR syndic8.php

nav.php
displays forms for searching meerkat OR syndic8.com. Meerkat-categories can be expanded (see PERMISSSIONS!)

meerkat.php
includes meerkat.inc and displays the meerkat-results

meerkat.inc
contains several functions to send a xml-rpc-request to meerkat.oreilly.com

syndic8.php
includes syndic8.inc and displays the newschannels found by syndic8.com. Also gets the choosen newsfeeds, parses
and displays them....

syndic8.inc
contains several functions to send a xml-rpc-request to syndic8.com

xmlrpc_m.inc
modified file of the "xml-rpc for php"-package, written by Edd Dumbill(c). 
Add UTF8-Support for incoming responses.
Renamed functions xmlrpc_decode() and xmlrpc_encode() to xmlrpcDecode() and xmlrpcEncode()
to solve name-conflicts with newer php-versions  >= 4.2

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*FEATURE REQUESTS AND BUG REPORTS*
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Email to martin@borho.net
projectpage: http://www.borho.net/news/
