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Typically, printing several RSS feeds from various blogs on a single page is known as aggregation. This script not only aggregates RSS feeds however, it also merges and sorts them by date using the merge sort algorithm. The result is a blog of postings from several blogs.

1. You will need to include the RSS parser class known as lastRSS. Click here to download it from their web site.
2. Each item must have a pubDate child element. RSS 2 will work, but RSS 1 will not.

This script was written to make use of the Wordpress stylesheet and can be integrated into your current Wordpress blog. Click here for detailed instructions.

• rss_merge.phps
• lastRSS.phps (from lastrss.oslab.net)

v0.2.0 (2005-02-25)

• Added support for content:encoded tag to display complete posts.

Brad Touesnard - http://brad.touesnard.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Below is a merging of the RSS feeds from the following blogs:

• bradt.ca
• Pierre Grandmaison Personal Blog
• sean mcgrath's weblog
• chad lindstrom's blog

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Set your alarm for a couple days in the future, and when it goes off, come back here. It’s not ready yet!

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