Re: [Hampshire] Generating RSS Feeds

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Author: Peter Salisbury
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To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Generating RSS Feeds
On Friday 18 May 2007, Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 14:32, Brian Chivers wrote:
> > > You should be able to write a script in Perl* using XML::RSS**
> > > to generate an RSS feed of your choice. How good is your
> > > web/CGI foo?
> > >
> > > There may also be a nice application already written.
> >
> > My web/CGI foo is very weak so any ready written apps are good
> > :-)
>
> I'm sure one will exist, but I can' think of one off the top of my
> head. RSS is easy stuff really, so I'm sure there are plenty of
> tools that allow people to add things via a web interface and a
> consolodated RSS feed comes out the back end.


We use drupal (www.drupal.org) for our church website
(www.lymingtonchurch.org) and that automatically provides RSS if you
ask it to. I'ts easy to install and I see there's now a Debian
package which would presumably make it even easier. It depends on
access to php and MySQL/postgres.

HTH, Peter