[starman]

Hi all,
I looked EVERYWHERE and found a gazillion RSS readers, but not one app for OS X that actually creates an RSS file. Can someone point me to one please? Thanks.

Mike

[ambush]

It's easy to code an RSS maker... basically xml is pretty easy...

I think it should not be much of a problem for a coder like u...

normally, PHP scripts (or perl, etc) create them...

[starman]

Originally posted by ambush:
It's easy to code an RSS maker... basically xml is pretty easy...

I think it should not be much of a problem for a coder like u...

normally, PHP scripts (or perl, etc) create them...

You're right that I can do it by hand, (in fact, i'm starting one right now since I can't find an app), but I'm surprised that there isn't something out there that just creates it. Maybe there isn't....

Mike

[Angus_D]

Normally RSS feeds are backended to a database and have changing content, there aren't really any situations I can think of where you'd need to use RSS statically.

[starman]

You see, that's part of the problem. I posted a question in the Web Developer section that got no responses. I'm looking for something that I can use to do just that - build HTML and RSS from a database. The problem is that I got no reponses, and I don't know where to start.

My server allows PHP and CGI with a mySQL database. Is there a Mac app that could talk to the database and do what I need it to do?

My "dream app" would be one that allows me to put in the topic and description (which I can format), upload it to my server, and then have the HTML for the page and the RSS created immediately after.

Mike

[Millennium]

Originally posted by starman:
You see, that's part of the problem. I posted a question in the Web Developer section that got no responses. I'm looking for something that I can use to do just that - build HTML and RSS from a database. The problem is that I got no reponses, and I don't know where to start.

My server allows PHP and CGI with a mySQL database. Is there a Mac app that could talk to the database and do what I need it to do?

My "dream app" would be one that allows me to put in the topic and description (which I can format), upload it to my server, and then have the HTML for the page and the RSS created immediately after.

I see what you want to do, but most content management systems -which sound like what you want- don't work that way. What they do is sit in the root level of the site, catching all requests which come to the site, and then build the HTML and/or RSS on the fly as the user visits.

What you have described sounds like a technique known as dynamic caching (also sometimes called funky caching for reasons no one really understands), but that's something which isn't really needed except for the very largest sites. Unless you're running the next Slashdot, a standard CMS will do the job quite well.

Ahem. If they allow PHP, then you might want to consider Postnuke. If they allow Python, then Vellum is another good choice (Vellum uses the dynamic-caching technique I mentioned).

[starman]

Postnuke? They do mention something called PHPNuke. Is that the same thing? I'll check it out.

No, I'm not doing the next Slashdot, but you're right - I've seen sites flub (like NN and Neowin) where instead of HTML you get these SQL errors which led me to beleive there was no such thing as static HTML for those sites. I bookmarked that in my head thinking I'd never, EVER have to do it myself.

I came across this site:

http://pbx.homeunix.org/p_blog/index.php

but it just would NOT work with my host's system, where phpBB worked "out of the box".

I think I'll just go the manual route if P*nuke doesn't work out.

Thanks.

Mike

[starman]

Got it.

moveabletype.com

Done.

Not only was it a snap to set up (for MT that is..my hosting site is a different story), but it has built-in XML creation, so things I add work in NetNewsWire.

Mike