Blog Archive App

[daveMac]

Hi Guys. I have a wordpress blog that's sort of a quote of the day type of a deal and I am looking to make a simple app that automatically downloads the blog content (think RSS—kind of). I want my readers to be able to save their favorite posts and I need to be able to show access to all archives (about 440 posts to date). I also need it to send a push notification when a new post is detected. Anyway, I have been looking at RSS feeds, but it looks like I can only show the last ten.

As far as iPhone programming experience, I'm by no means a noobie. However, I have mostly worked on game projects and I don't have very much experience with the internet side of programming (downloading, parsing, etc.).

Any ideas would be appreciated. I just need to be pointed in the right direction.

[dany_dev]

the idea is to have an output in xml or json, so that you can download and parse. For Download you can use ASIHTTPRequest or NSURLConnection, for parsing you can use NSXMLParser or JSON Framework.....

[Allah]

For push notifications you need to look at APNS

[daveMac]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

the idea is to have an output in xml or json, so that you can download and parse. For Download you can use ASIHTTPRequest or NSURLConnection, for parsing you can use NSXMLParser or JSON Framework.....

So any ideas on how I could get my wordpress blog to output in xml or json?

[dany_dev]

wordpress should have rss (subset of xml) enabled for default.....

so

http://www.yourBlog.com/feed/rss/

should do the trick

[daveMac]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

wordpress should have rss (subset of xml) enabled for default.....

so

http://www.yourBlog.com/feed/rss/

should do the trick

What about the issue of Wordpress' RSS feed only showing the last 10 posts. How do I see all of the posts?

[dany_dev]

You should be able to edit that in Settings/Readings directly on wordpress.....

[daveMac]

Is it possible to detect when new posts have been made on my wordpress blog, while the iPhone is running in the background? Another words, I want a push notification to come through when I post something new on the blog.

[dany_dev]

this is something to manage server-side, read the documentation....
Local and Push Notification Programming Guide