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[yahoo_wordoftheday]

Description

Link: [yahoo_wordoftheday]

Author: Jason Huck

Category: Utility

Version: 8.x

License:

Posted: Oct. 05, 2006

Updated: Jan. 01, 0001

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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].

Parameters

none

Sample Usage

var('myWord') = yahoo_wordoftheday;

'Word of the Day: <a href="' 
    + $myWord->find('link') 
    + '" target="_blank">' 
    + $myWord->find('word') 
    + '</a> - ' 
    + $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;

Related Tags

[xml_tree]

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