Comments on: New! SimplePie Accelerator 1.0 Released to Manufacturing

By: Michael P. Shipley

Michael P. Shipley — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:51:14 +0000

1. Run the accelerator to update your simplepie feed cache.

2. Run simplepie normally with a cacheduration of 999999999. This will force SP to not try to update the feed cache which will make it go very fast.

Example:

require_once ’simplepie_accelerator.php’;
require_once “simplepie.inc”;

$urls = array(’feed1.com’,'feed2.com’,'feed3.com’);
$options = array(
‘urls’=>$urls,
‘maxProcesses’=>5,
‘timeout’=>10,
‘debug’=>0,
‘updaterPath’=>”, // current directory
‘cacheDuration’=>3600,
‘enableCache’=>1
);
$sa = new SimplePie_Accelerator($options);

// cache is updated, now run SP normally with cacheduration=99999999.

$feed = new SimplePie();
$feed->set_feed_url($urls);
$feed->set_cache_duration(999999999);
$feed->init();

By: Danne

Danne — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:04:04 +0000

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your commitment to fixing SimplePies speed issues, the accelerator sounds great! I am however having some trouble integrating it with my current setup.

I have managed to do the test ok, and everything seems fine. My problem is how I use it with my simplepie feeds, I don’t really understand how to “hook up” the accelerator to the regular simplepie setup. I am a beginner PHP coder but I understand a bit. It’s probably me not understanding some dumb basic thing.

Would it be possible to get some quick instructions on how I would get it to work on a regular Simplepie instance? One where I just call simplepie and get a feed?

I would really appreciate any help!

Thank you once again!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:21:08 +0000

I have wget installed and working but the accelerator script fails the test everytime. Any idea why this would be happening?

By: Pakdoz

Pakdoz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Hi,
how to make simplepie accelerator working together with newsblock?

By: Morteza

Morteza — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:45:39 +0000

Is there any way for Hosts that doesn’t support PHP exec?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:00:55 +0000

Is there a way to test if the accelerator is working/set-up correctly? (other than the page load time – looking for more concrete proof).

By: Michael Shipley

Michael Shipley — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:02:33 +0000

If you mean does it work in a Apache, MySQL, PHP environment then yes it does. It requires:

* PHP5
* PHP exec
* WGET
* Linux operating system

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:51:08 +0000

has anyone tried this inside an environment like xampp ?