Generate an RSS feed from flat files?

September 15, 2005 9:18 AM

I'd like to generate an RSS feed from flat files in a directory.

A friend of mine has a fairly popular site that has articles he's written, and he creates each page from a template, by hand. He'd like to create an RSS feed, but since he doesn't use any automated CMS tools he needs something that can look at a directory, generate a summary, and create an RSS feed, with new entries receiving the timestamp of the file.

I know Blosxom will do this, but are there other tools that are better / different / shinier that you'd recommend? The requirements are: either CGI or PHP, no database, and a fairly simple install, although simple operation is more important.

posted by bshort to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I made a script a while back that generates an Atom feed from any files that are added to a directory.

A much more robust version of something like this is Dan Bricklin's List Garden.
posted by anildash at 9:48 AM on September 15, 2005

Might be easy to modify dirCaster to do what your friend wants.
posted by ThePants at 9:38 AM on September 16, 2005