Some days have passed with no updates. It took me a bit, but I decided to base the new reader off of lastRSS instead of Magpie RSS; while the modularity and much more comprehensive nature of Magpie’s tag matching is nice, I didn’t need something so complex–rather, I simply wanted a quick, simple reader.

I was also taken by the method by which lastRSS creates the data–it parses the feed and then places it into an associative array, which I hadn’t originally considered doing. The original reader that I’d written used an inelegant method that simply matched tags, and then dropped them directly into the page.

With the array method, however, it’ll be a bit easier for me to create a formatting script that places everything appropriately into the template, which I’ll be working on now. In the meantime, here’s the file for the reader: aeRSS 0.2.20070916

(Edited to add a few small corrections/tweaks.)