Link List Module (Beta 3)

Linklist Beta 3 released. Upgrading is seamless and painless. There are no database structural changes, just basically a tweak and improvement of a few things. Some things some of you will like, and some thing you might not. :) You can find the download on the downloads page.

CHANGES this release: (view the CHANGES file for a history)

Bug Fixes/Changes

- Cosmetic changes :

changed it so that if you click on the linklist name, it will go to edit links;

changed “edit links” to “preferences”;

added a new column in edit links, “last updated”;

- When adding a site via bookmarklet, it will attempt to autodiscover the RSS and autofill the RSS url for you.

- autodetecting RSS also autodetects favicons.

- added tips and tricks for sorting the linklist in the documentation.

- Fixed a problem the get_headers function for those people running PHP 4.x. (this function was introduced in PHP5)

- Rewrote the Parser class that imports the OPML files. I’ve tested OPML files from blogrolling, bloglines, netnewswire, and feeddemon.

- OPML Importing OPML files/feeds that have folders (i.e. bloglines) will now not error out. However, you will get the import into one big linklist.

- OPML Importing now allows you to also autodetect the RSS/Favicon URLs. While this may sound good, please be warned that if you use this functionality and you have a large list of links, then this could take a long time and possibly lock up your server. Take care using this!

- RFC 3229 is now used when “pinging” a site’s RSS url. This should speed up things when doing the exp:linklist:checkupdated tag as long as the target site is up to spec with RFC 3229. (as far as I know just about all the blogging/journal software is up to par) – thanks to paul and chris for suggesting (and helping out) with this.

- There may be a few other stealth changes in this release, as I’m sure that I added some things here and there.