OneAndOneIs2

I suspect the vast majority of readers of this site will know what I'm talking about when it comes to RSS. In case you're not, I'll simply explain that when a blog (Like this one) publishes stories, RSS is a simplified version of them that can be read by specialised software. You can use it to alert you to new stories, or even to read the content without having to go to that site.

I have a page on my website that pulls in RSS feeds from a large number of sites to keep me updated on all of them in one go. I use a piece of open-source software named MagpieRSS to do it all for me. But, being typical open-source software, Magpie is very powerful, but not all that easy to use.

It relies on a PHP config file to define what RSS feeds to get and how to display them. I thought I'd show how my config works because it took quite a lot of background reading to get it to where it is today...

So if you've any interest in getting RSS feeds from your favourite sites aggregated onto one single web page, take a look at MagpieRSS and the configuration suggestions here on this web page: Magpie Config

(I'd have done it as a blog post, but it's much easier to do it in a separate PHP file...)