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SimplePie RSS is a very nicely written php program that parses RSS and Atom syndication feeds.  Currently you can parse RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0 right up to the RSS 2.0 format, and it supports Atom in version 0.3 and 1.0.  Once you have SimplePie installed you will find that the developers built in support for some of the most common feed services including Bloglines, del.icio.us, Digg, Google Reader, Technorati and My Yahoo.  SimplePie RSS is developed as open source software and released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, which means you can freely download it and use it on your websites for free.  It has been tested on PHP 4.3, 4.4 and PHP 5.0.

SimplePie is great to use if you have a website and would like to have fresh updated content.  Just download the program from simplepie and install it on your web server and then add the code to your web page and the program does the rest.

One day all of a sudden I was getting a MySQL ErrNo: 145 on one of my blogs.  To correct the problem all you need to do is the following:

• Log into your mysql database either through the command prompt, or if you are using it on a hosting package, just find the database admin tool that your provider has for you.  Typically it will be PHPMyAdmin.
• From the command prompt, or if you are using PHPMYAdmin go to the SQL tab and run the following command:  REPAIR TABLE yourtablename.
• You will probably see a couple of messages indicating the problems that the repair fixed.

One you have repaired the table, go ahead and try to access the database table again.  This should clear up Errno: 145.