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- Recognizes and uses Etag headers to prevent unnecessary wasted bandwidth for you and your channel providers
- No limit on the number of channels you can add (demo version is limited to 3 channels)
- Unlimited items per channel
- GUID (globally unique ID) support and auto-generation of GUIDs for items without guids specified means you never see duplicate items
- Ability to add / remove / force refresh feeds from the admin area and via function calls in PHP
- Full programatic functionality (everything you can do in the admin area and more you can do via PHP function calls - see the Programming Guide)
- Password protected admin area for each channel / option management
- Embed ReachRSS in your existing HTML, place it in a scrolling iFrame, or use it on it's own webpage
- Channel image support, with locally caches channel images (to avoid flooding the channel server with requests).
- Cached images automatically refresh once a day
- Advanced templating system allows almost any design / configuration you can think of, while remaining incredibly easy to use (see the Template Help). (The demo version requires you to place a small ReachRSS link image somwhere on your page.)
- ReachRSS automatically detects and uses ttl channel elements
- You can specify your own minimum ttl to avoid refreshing feeds more than necessary
- Supports any valid (and many invalid) RSS and RDF feeds
- Support for multiple templates inside a single instance of ReachRSS (allowing you to display the same information on different pages in different ways)
- Template caching support - the template only needs to be refreshed when it's out of date
- Automatically detects gzip support and uses it when transfering data (less bandwidth / faster updates)
- Programatically fetch any channel or item property from PHP (no need to use the template system if you want to build your own display mechanism)
- No database requirements - ReachRSS uses it's own file format which is fast and efficient
- Automatic management of channel items (auto-refresh and auto-purge) - no user intervention required
- Set preferences for the maximum number of items per channel, as well as the maximum amount of time to keep each item - keep your site fresh and relivant!
- Channel keyword filter - only display items which match one or more of your specified keywords (add a popular news channel and then use ReachRSS to filter it, only keeping the items you're interested in)! [Registered version only]
- Several ReachRSS templates included, plus you can build your own in minutes (see the Template help page for details - match the look exactly to your existing website, or include it in an existing page)
- No programming knowledge or experience required - everything can be done via a simple point and click interface
- Use ReachRSS to access your news anytime, anywhere you have a web browser or display news headlines on your own website (see the Samples page for ideas)
- Full timezone support - recognized and properly uses both <pubDate> and <dc:date> time/date formats in items
- Ability to specify item times as "1 hour 16 minutes ago" or any date format you can imagine using the PHP date command (eg: "9:24am on Tuesday, February 14th")
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