I wrote a small newsreader php script which could be used in a bunch of applications. It is really simple, reads RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 (with ATOM support coming up). Here is the link to the script. It is really simple to implement. Call the script as a link with the variable ‘url’ containing the RSS url and you are done. For example: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/newsreader.php?url=http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/wp-rss2.php brings up my main blog’s news feed. I use it on my main blog to provide news links from my blogroll.

While answering a question in the wordpress forums, I remembered an (obscure to me) function in php which generates a regular expressions ( regex ) to be used in a MySql query. This is very useful when performing a dynamic ORDER_BY or a SELECT and you do not want to use the LIKE statement. The syntax is as follows: $new_string = mysql_regcase($string); Where the $string was the original query string and the $new_string is the regex for that query string. I am not sure whether WordPress uses this or not. However, it sure could prove useful in unlikely circumstances.