[yahoo_wordoftheday]
| Link | yahoo_wordoftheday |
| Author | Jason Huck |
| Category | Utility |
| Version | 8.x |
| License | http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php |
| Posted | 05 Oct 2006 |
| Updated | 05 Oct 2006 |
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Description
Returns the Word of the Day from Yahoo! Education as a map containing the word, the definition, the publish date, and a permalink. Stores the results in a global which expires every 24 hours. Requires [xml_tree].
Sample Usage
var('myWord') = yahoo_wordoftheday;
'Word of the Day: '
+ $myWord->find('word')
+ ' - '
+ $myWord->find('definition');
Source Code
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define_tag(
'wordoftheday',
-namespace='yahoo_',
-priority='replace',
-description='Returns the Word of the Day from Yahoo!'
);
if(
global_defined('yahoo_wotd')
&& $yahoo_wotd->find('date')->difference(date, -hour) < 24
);
return($yahoo_wotd);
else;
local('data') = xml_tree(string(include_url('http://xml.education.yahoo.com/rss/wotd/')));
local('out') = map(
'word' = #data->channel->item->title->contents->split(' - ')->first,
'definition' = #data->channel->item->description->contents,
'link' = 'http://education.yahoo.com/' + #data->channel->item->guid->contents,
'date' = date_gmttolocal(date(#data->channel->item->pubDate->contents, -format='%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT'))
);
global('yahoo_wotd') = #out;
return(#out);
/if;
/define_tag;
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