04.24.08
Yahoo Pipes Adds PHP Serialized Output Renderer
Yahoo Pipes announced today that they are offering PHP Serialized Output. This means rather than parsing an RSS feed to get results you can get the results back as an array. This makes programming with Pipes faster, and easier.
I’m still uncertain how Yahoo is going to monetize this, but it is great for anyone who wants to display results a very specific way.
What I think would be even cooler, is a Pipes to PHP solution that let you use Pipes as a GUI for creating PHP that has the same functionality… I know I build things in Pipe and then after I get them tweaked spend a good deal of time recreating the same solution on my own server.