This was my first attempt to build a Joomla module, although I had been using Mambo & Joomla since a lot of time ago. What decided me to try it was the convergence of some facts: the practice with some javascript libraries and with SimplePie, the redesign of the site democraciaparticipativa.net, and that all the RSS plugins I tried was not what I was looking for. I am far away to be considered any kind of expert, at all, but I just durst and I think the final result is good enough.
You can see a demo here.

The goal of this module is simple: replicating and extending the well-known SimplePie’s demo -that you can download from their webpage. The effortless & first idea was to simply include the demo’s page inside an iframe, but it was not so good for many reasons. So, finally I decide to use AJAX or similar to open the requested result in the same page. I used jQuery and their excelent Form plugin.

Of course I changed many things in the original code of SimplePie’s demo, starting with not to use a GET request but a POST request instead of it. Further explanation of the module’s code will be posted, if someone requires it.

Download it!

You can download the Simple Reader module and install it in the usual way. Please, note that Simple Reader module is released under this Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. Hope it will be useful for you too.