I'm yet to put this in the feed from cockcruisers, but you can add
querystrings for controlling this kind of thing.
For example I've added one that queries the database for only movies
with FLVs to cut down on BW for the tube site.
For FHGs, generally I'd say add a querystring for # of entries to
pull, then default this to 50 or 100 when the affiliate doesn't
specify the querystring.
Then if the querystring = -99 give them ALL results, allow people to
pull all of the results, then change their URL so as not to pull so
many.
From then on, the client script uses the ID of the entries to ensure
it doesn't add the same entry twice, thus if you are including 50
galleries and only have 20 new ones, 30 will just be ignored due to
the duplicate ID.
Most would cron their scripts daily and if used on a lot of sites your
feed could PHP cache to reduce CPU load when it hasn't updated.
Actually a really good way to package them might be in "updates"....
Where an entry contains 5-10 FHGs, a days worth, a weeks worth or
whatever, a description, and then blogs etc can post each of those FHG
links with the title specified in the feed. This way you'll be
digesting the posts and not flooding sites where each entry is posted
separately. Should work ok as generally you might have a few galleries
which really don't need separate descriptions, but just slightly
different titles.
-Ben
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