Comments on: The Quick Guide to GUIDs http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/ Learning shouldn't hurt. Let's share the insights that made difficult ideas click. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Kalid http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-184104 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:57:48 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-184104 Hi J. Daniels, I'm not that familiar with the details of Feedburner feeds, but from a GUID perspective they need to be unique for each item. So if you change a feed then the GUID may need to change also. Hope this helps. Hi J. Daniels,

I’m not that familiar with the details of Feedburner feeds, but from a GUID perspective they need to be unique for each item. So if you change a feed then the GUID may need to change also. Hope this helps.

]]> by: J. Daniels http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-183937 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:59:20 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-183937 I find it somewhat confusing. Is it necessary to have a guid in order for updates to be sent to let's say a person subscribing to a feed via email. If not is it based on pubdate or lastbuild. Now suppose the feeds are single feeds such as in a list of something and each has its own xml file. My feeds are single lists and am using perl to update the pubdate and lastbuildDate to todays date if the list has changed. Using feedburner/feedblitz to take care of distribution to users. However, feedlblitz support says the feeds may not work without the guid changing (test of email feeds appears to work without a guid) but there are so many I can't subscribe to each and everyone. So, if I do need to create a guid, I have no clue how to do this using the generator mentioned here and how to insert into the xml file when the list has been updated. I'm not very good at perl or php but am trying. Thanks. I find it somewhat confusing. Is it necessary to have a guid in order for updates to be sent to let’s say a person subscribing to a feed via email. If not is it based on pubdate or lastbuild.
Now suppose the feeds are single feeds such as in a list of something and each has its own xml file. My feeds are single lists and am using perl to update the pubdate and lastbuildDate to todays date if the list has changed. Using feedburner/feedblitz to take care of distribution to users. However, feedlblitz support says the feeds may not work without the guid changing (test of email feeds appears to work without a guid) but there are so many I can’t subscribe to each and everyone. So, if I do need to create a guid, I have no clue how to do this using the generator mentioned here and how to insert into the xml file when the list has been updated. I’m not very good at perl or php but am trying. Thanks.

]]> by: Sam http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-179361 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:28:34 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/#comment-179361 For those who need GUIDs here a link to a very minimal GUID generator: http://createguid.com For those who need GUIDs here a link to a very minimal GUID generator: http://createguid.com

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