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Feb 26, 2023#p2
My rssCloud server written in PHP is live!
It unashamedly draws on Andrew Shell's for inspiration but that's not such a bad thing as it maintains a degree of consistency.
Mine differs in one key way: subscriptions are not removed after 25 hours. Instead you send a cancel request which I have since discovered is how WebSub operates.
I am planning on adding a feature to auto-remove a subscription after X failed notification attempts. I also need to set it up to remove older events from the log but haven't yet decided on a suitable retention period.
I have been testing it with a custom instance of PHP-MST and think I've worked out most of the kinks and catered for most eventualities. I may switch my main instance to use it.
It's been great fun to work on and only taken a few days to put together – it's actually a pretty simple app and could be even simpler if I didn't include forms for manual requests.
The code is available on GitHub. It requires a MySQL database and accounts, I've included the SQL statements to generate the necessary tables.
