Learning the World

By default, Moodle uses Magpie RSS to parse its RSS feeds. Unfortunately Magpie tends to be buggy, and hasn’t been updated since 2005. At Hack/Doc Fest II at Kenyon College we put together a patch that swaps out Magpie RSS for the much more current SImplePie RSS (hat tip Charles Fulton, Kalamazoo College, who did most of the patching).

Details on how to swap out Magpie for SImplePie can be found in Moodle Tracker:

• MDL-7946: Use simplepie instead of magpie for rss parsing

This seems like a no brainer swap to me, but the tracker item could still use some vote love. The tracker doesn’t mention it, but this problem still affects Moodle 1.9.4.