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Title: RSS Feed Creator help
Post by: schild on January 10, 2008, 10:14:14 AM
I'm looking to make stuff like release lists and such to feed into the f13 frontpage. I really dislike how Google Calendar formats their RSS feed so I'm looking for completely customizable content.

Right now, the only good option I see is ListGarden. Anyone know of anything better


Title: Re: RSS Feed Creator help
Post by: Ookii on January 10, 2008, 10:26:32 AM
You could create another blog in Nucleus and just get the rss feed of that blog, there are many ways.

You don't necessarily need a program to do it.


Title: Re: RSS Feed Creator help
Post by: sidereal on January 10, 2008, 12:13:12 PM
I'd say Textpad, but if you're hand-editing a textfile anyway, you may as well just hand-edit the list directly in the site and skip the whole Produce The RSS -> Consume The RSS steps.  Unless RSS is markedly easier for Nucleus to consume than a raw text plugin.  You could also have a plugin transcode the Google Calendar RSS feed so you can keep maintaining it there and get the format you like.


Title: Re: RSS Feed Creator help
Post by: Krakrok on January 10, 2008, 12:42:17 PM

Magpierss is a PHP RSS feed parser. However, it currently bugs out on the Google News feeds which is really pissing me off so no guarantees it will work.

Here's a page (http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/custom_feeds/) that shows you how to do a simple RSS feed setup and then all you have to do is populate the MySQL table with data. PHPMyAdmin would work for that in a pinch.


On a lot of my sites aggregating RSS feeds is what I have been doing for several years. Bring in all the feeds and then send them out as one feed. I do it in ASP though.