Extension:WikiRSS

wikiRSS is an RSS parser based on lastRSS. It is designed to work with the RSS Reader extension, and offer an alternative to file system caching (for users that might not have access to their file system, or would prefer to use the database).

Benchmarks
After creating and benchmarking, wikiRSS tends to perform around 3 times slower for fetching cached files. There might be slight optimizations possible to make it run faster that it does, but wikiRSS will never run faster than lastRSS. This is based on the simple fact that a database has to access files at the lowest level, while direct file caching cuts the overhead of a database.

Installation
Installing wikiRSS instead of lastRSS is not a big hassle. Copy and paste dbconfig.sql and wikiRSS.php into files with the same names in the folder where RSSReader.php is located. Go inside dbconfig.sql and change  in the first line to your MediaWiki's database prefix (as stored by $wgDBprefix). Then run dbconfig.sql on your MediaWiki database.

dbConfig.sql
Make sure to replace  in the first line with your MediaWiki's database prefix (as stored by $wgDBprefix)

Future Improvements

 * Try to make the script run faster