Frequently Asked Questions

These are questions that are frequently asked about SimplePie. For discussions about how to do things, check the Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, and Screencasts page.

• What is SimplePie?
• What are RSS and Atom feeds?
• Who works on SimplePie?
• What versions of RSS or Atom do you support?
• Why would I use SimplePie over something else?
• Can SimplePie generate new feeds?
• Can SimplePie parse raw XML feeds?
• Where can I get some help with SimplePie?
• I love SimplePie! Do you take donations?

• That's an odd logo. What is it?
• How did you choose that logo font?
• Why does the site kinda resemble something from 37signals?

• Can I include SimplePie with software I'm selling?

• Typical Multifeed Gotchas
• I'm seeing weird characters
• I'm getting cache error messages
• How do I do database caching?
• I'm getting memory leaks!
• How do I change the file permissions for the cache directory to be server-writable?

• Can SimplePie handle raw XML feeds?
• Can SimplePie parse microformats like hAtom?
• Can SimplePie grab data from any element in the feed?
• How are relative URIs resolved?
• How does character encoding detection work?

• Supported Character Encodings
• Supported XML Namespaces
• Supported Media Mime Types
• Supported Date Formats

• How does SimplePie's caching system work?