{"id":1625,"date":"2005-01-20T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T00:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2005\/01\/20\/getting-with-the-program\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T00:44:41","slug":"getting-with-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2005\/01\/20\/getting-with-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting with the program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDel.icio.us<\/a> is a “social bookmarks manager,” or in plain English, a web page that lets you keep a list of interesting websites. What makes it interesting is that it lets you use tags<\/em> to classify your links a rough-and-ready sort of way (this kind of undisciplined tagging is now sometimes called “folksonomy”), lets you see links from other people with the same tags (or any tags) and shows you how many other people link to a given URL.\n<\/p>\n

\nI’ve been keeping a “hit and run” blog for some time, and this fulfills the same role for me as del.icio.us would, but I had been unwilling to switch over two del.icio.us for a couple of reasons: 1. The data doesn’t live on my machine; 2. It’s not easy to control the presentation–it is possible to republish your del.icio.us links on your own page, but you’re kind of stuck in terms of presentation. There are ways to get at the data programmatically, but that involves programming, and that means work, and I’m lazy.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut I finally decided to sit down and figure it out (as a way to avoid something even harder: my current translation job). Somebody has already provided a library of PHP tools<\/a> for messing with del.icio.us, and I know just enough about PHP to get myself in trouble. Here’s what I did [caution: entering geek mode]\n<\/p>\n

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\nI took the sample script provided, hacked around with that, and made one modification to the postsByCount<\/code> function, adding the following line:\n<\/p>\n

'extended' => $child_node->get_attribute('extended')<\/code><\/p>\n

This makes it possible to get the snarky comment, which the library’s author mysteriously omitted. To reduce load on the del.icio.us server, I modified the script to write its output to a stub file, and the stub file is included in this page. The script is curl<\/code>‘d once an hour by a cron job. For the record, here’s the script:<\/p>\n

\n<?php\n$thefile=\"\/path\/to\/stub\/file.html\"; \/\/ change this\n$tagurl='http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/'; \/\/ this is just a convenience\nrequire_once('DeliciousData.class.php');\n$del = new DeliciousData('username','password'); \/\/ change username, password\n$myPosts = $del->postsBycount('',10); \/\/ gets 10 posts, all tags\n$delstub = '<dl id=\"hitnrun\">';\nforeach ($myPosts as $post) {\n $delstub .= '<dt><a href=\"' . $post['href'] . '\">' . $post['description'] . '<\/a>';\n $delstub .= '<dd class=\"xt\">' . $post['extended'] . '<\/dd>';\n  $delstub .= '<dd class=\"tags\"><ul>';\n  foreach ($post['tags'] as $tag) {\n    $delstub .= '<li><a href=\"' . $tagurl . $tag . '\">' . $tag . '<\/a><\/li>';\n  }\n  $delstub .= '<\/ul><\/dd>';\n}\n$delstub .= '<\/dl>';\n$file=fopen($thefile, \"w+\");\nfwrite($file,$delstub);\nfclose($file);\n?>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
[Later]<\/ins> To generate valid HTML, it would be a good idea to wrap the del.icio.us variables with the htmlspecialchars function, like this: htmlspecialchars($post['href'])<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Delicious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta-blogging","category-net-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}