rssgoemail

rssgoemail is a script that watches multiple RSS (or Atom) feeds and sends out an email digest if a new entry is found. It is a fork of the script by Abdul Ibad which used to live at http://ibad.bebasbelanja.com

Requirements

• PHP > 5.3
• a MySQL database
• a cronjob

Installation

From Git

• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/e-dschungel/rssgoemail
• Install simplepie using composer composer install
• Create database using config/rssgoemail.sql
• Rename config/config.dist.php to config/config.php and edit it according to your needs, see below
• Add a cronjob which accesses rssgoemail.php regularly

From ZIP file

• Download rssgoemail.zip (NOT Source Code (zip) or Source Code (tar.gz)) from https://github.com/e-dschungel/rssgoemail/releases/latest
• Extract and upload it to your webserver
• Create database using config/rssgoemail.sql
• Rename config/config.dist.php to config/config.php and edit it according to your needs, see below
• Add a cronjob which accesses rssgoemail.php regularly

Configuration

variable	description
$rge_config['dbHost']	hostname of the database, localhost is very common
$rge_config['dbUser']	user used to connect to the database
$rge_config['dbPass']	password used to connect to the database
$rge_config['dbBase']	name of the database
$rge_config['dbTable']	name of the table
$rge_config['emailTo']	email adress of the reciepent of the email digest
$rge_config['emailFrom']	email adress shown as sender of the digest
$rge_config['emailSubject']	subject of the email digest
$rge_config['errorInFeed']	warning which is shown when the feed contains errors
$rge_config['dateFormat']	format of date and time, formatting specifiers like PHP's date function
$rge_config['cacheDir']	cache dir, needs to be writeable
$rge_config['cacheTime']	cache time in seconds, during this time no changes from feeds are recognized as the cached version is used
$rge_config['feedUrls']	array with URLs of RSS or Atom feeds to be watched

Changelog

Version 0.1

• first public release (of this fork)

Version 0.2

• upgrade to SimplePie 1.5
• switch to PDO for database access to make script compatible to PHP 7
• use SimplePie's internal hash functions (avoids duplicated emails)
• fix for special characters in feed title

Version 0.2.1

• decreased default cache time to 1800 seconds, improved documentation on cacheTime