Plog Templates are cool

I have not yet started to get my finger behind Plog’s plugins—This evenings project was was not Blog but Mail. I finally gotaround to have my home-gateway talk SASL/TLS to my main server thatacts as a relayhost so that all my mail leaves from one server. — butthe templates stucture is cool enough in itself. Its one of thoseappealing little features of the plog architecture.

The AmIAScreenSaverOrNot screensaver is a funny screensaver is very nice hack. It just grabs pics from http://www.hotornot.comand displays them, one by one. While trying to figure out how that hackworked I noticed that HotorNot has an RSS feed nowadays. That makeshacking up a template that shows the latest 10 girls on HotorNot a trivial excercise.

The result can be found at http://www.trend-watcher.org/static/ladies.

The core of the template only counts a few lines:

{include file="trend-watcher/header.template"} 
{if $rss->parse("http://services.hotornot.com/rss/girls/")}
{assign var=channel value=$rss->getChannel()}

<a href="{$channel->getLink()}">{$channel->getTitle()}
 
{$channel->getDescription()} 
  {foreach name=articles from=$rss->getItems() item=rssItem} 
    {if ($smarty.foreach.articles.iteration < 10)}      

getLink()}">{$rssItem->getTitle()}    

         {$rssItem->getDescription()} 
 {/if} 
  {/foreach} 
 {/if} 
 
{include file="trend-watcher/panel.template"} 
{include file="trend-watcher/footer.template"}