035 | Buddy Fetcher (PHP/MySQL)

Development of Buddy Fetcher: Simple RSS fetcher/aggregator (PHP/MySQL).

Open source project at https://github.com/buddylancer/fetcher.php. 

Project features:

- collecting remote items (news, jobs etc) from a number of external sites

- using standard input RSS-feeds or custom parsing

- items collector can be run as frequently as needed (through scheduled task)

- separate functionality for operations with DB (data access layer)

- filtering items by categories (any number of categories)

- output RSS-feeds (filtered by categories also)

- caching logic for input RSS-feeds, web pages and output RSS-feeds

- mobile version is configured through separate CSS

- classic MVC (Model/View/Controller) implementation

This product was initially ported from original PHP version using own converter (written in C# and using ~80 regular expressions). Working NET version, ported from the same original PHP version with the same converter (using ~150 regular expressions), can be found at https://github.com/buddylancer/fetcher.net.

Websites powered by Buddy Fetcher:

- 1001 Freelance Projects

- 1001 Freelance Projects / Rus

- 1001 Remote Jobs

- 1001 Remote Jobs / Rus

Environment - PHP, MySQL, NetBeans, TortoiseHg.

Roles - Lead Developer.