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====== Lalina ======

//a webbased feed aggregator inspired by lilina//

===== Prologue =====

I used Panayotis Vryonis' feed reader [[http://lilina.sourceforge.net/|lilinia]]  for a while and found it the best webbased reader with the best user interface available. It only had one problem: speed. A lilina page with items from my 50 or something subscribed feeds took ages to load. So I thought to simply add mysql database support.

While digging through the code I suffered from my not-invented-here syndrome and started to recode big parts. Ending up with a completely new application. I wrote my own HTTP-Client (or better used the one I wrote for [[wiki:DokuWiki]]) and did the same for a very simple ATOM/RSS parser. The only thing left from the original lilina is the stylesheet and the JavaScripts.

**Update:** Eric Harmon improved my code and added many features that where missing. His code is available under the name lylina and available at [[http://lylina.sourceforge.net/|sourceforge]].

===== Features =====

{{ sw:lalina.png?170|lalina Screenshot}}

  * RSS and ATOM parsing
  * MySQL database support
  * HTTP lib with Conditional Requests
  * Multiuser-Support
  * Slick Interface borrowed from [[http://lilina.sourceforge.net/|lilinia]] ((check it out first, lalina nearly looks the same except for the missing icons))

===== What's missing =====

  * Feed-Icons
  * Fetching feed-URLs from websites (using the <link rel="alternate"> tags)
  * Javascipt causes errors (but works)
  * Mark things as read - this is not in lalina either but would be great to have
  * code comments
  * Lot's of other candy

===== Where to get =====

I put up an [[wiki:darcs]] repository and autogenerated snapshots. I have no time to support this as a real project and am happy if anyone adopts it. I will probably answer no questions or give any help on it - but you can try of course.

  * Pull via darcs: ''%%$> darcs get http://dev.splitbrain.org/darcs/lalina%%''
  * darcs webinterface: http://dev.splitbrain.org/darcs/index.cgi/lalina
  * Snapshots: http://dev.splitbrain.org/browse/snapshots/




===== How to install =====

Untar or fetch via darcs. Install the database with the provided ''lalina.sql'' script. Add a first user with the following SQL (uses 'admin' as password - you can change it later):

<code sql>
insert into lalina_users set login='admin', pass='$1$1397484d$xt7b9DtY9aJt3XWjAQwJ//';
</code>

Create a cronjob for the feed fetcher:

<code>
*/10 * * * * cd /path/to/lalina/ && /usr/bin/php4 fetch.php >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
</code>

Log in and add some feeds.