a nice server-side RSS aggregator written in PHP

For the past little while I have wanted to add an RSS news aggregator to sillytech. Today I finally searched around for any open-source ones written in PHP for me to use. The two best hits on the web appear to be zFeeder and feed on feeds. When I have some time I will install them and see if it's what I want.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a specification for a machine readable version of news (or a blog). By using an aggregator you can collect all the RSS that you are interested in onto one webpage. It works sorta like the livejournal friends page, but in an open way so it's not just limited to lj.

Aside: while you may not know it, lj actually generates an RSS feed for every user (note: since RSS is meant to be machine readable that link won't look pretty to you).

Posted by dustin on January 5, 2004 with category tags of sillytech

6 comments
nice
→ comment by tangming on April 12, 2004

I see the value of having recent comments on the main page, since otherwise this comment would likely go unread. Well done again, Mr Sacks!

to install zFeeder you need that your webhost provides PHP (>=4.2.0) support
and also has compiled the expat library (which is installed by default in PHP)

Am I to understand that you need your own web-space to do this?
→ comment by Mariana (#35) on September 23, 2004

Anyone looking for a server-side RSS reader that they don't have to have webspace or PHP knowledge should read this.
→ comment by dustin (#1) on September 24, 2004

You might also like to look at my own "Rippy the Aggregator"; I just released a new version of it.
→ comment by Matthew Skala on September 26, 2004

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