Thanks for letting me onboard. My part is to develop the ‘Latest Updated’ feature of the system. First, Simon has to complete the required RSS Parser class which in turn is utilized by the RSS Seeker class.

What I came up with is, the system needs to keep a cache of the updates from blogs in a separate table. For this purpose, a database table and a cron has to be setup to automate the process (cron availability is necessary). It will run to Cache any updates and Dispose any Obsoletes.

The cache has to have an expiry period which myself and Senn thought of as 1 week. The cache is necessary to keep an internal history of updates. A set of records to compare any new results and normalize the data. From there onwards, we would have a set of data that we can manipulate and display in various manners for displaying and sorting updates from the relevant URLs.