Re: [Hampshire] Generating RSS Feeds

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Author: Brian Chivers
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Generating RSS Feeds
Peter Salisbury wrote:
> 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
>


We've got Joomla install for our intranet site but I've been looking for something really simple for
teachers to use :-)

I've installed Listgarden (http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/) and it seems to do
what I want.

Thanks again for all you help
Brian

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