MagpieRSS used to generate index.html does not work with PHP8 about www HOT 4 CLOSED

Definitely seems better to stop using something which hasn't been maintained for a decade (or since 2006 if the simplepie website is to be believed).

Do we even need something dynamic though? Our website doesn't update often so it seems we could statically generate the RSS when the site is updated.

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98ccff7 made the change to grab the RSS feed and create a static index.html file containing the news from the RSS feed. The makeweb.py changes in that commit effectively does the invocation:

php index.php > index.html

This is the script that needs updating to work with php 8. Continuing to generate static html files is fine I think.

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Our website doesn't update often so it seems we could statically generate the RSS when the site is updated.

I've interpreted this as generating HTML as I'm not sure what you mean by generate RSS as there isn't an RSS generation. The RSS newsfeed is maintained by SourceForge.

So to be clear, the current workflow is, update the newsfeed on SourceForge, then run the scripts to update the web site, which grabs the latest from the newsfeed. I don't see how that can change though, unless we drop the newsfeed, which I don't see as a good option when this can all be solved by updating the code that talks to the newsfeed.

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Sorry, I'd misunderstood and thought we were generating an RSS feed whereas it seems we're actually consuming an RSS feed.

It still seems we'd do better to switch to using something that is maintained, and a Python module seems a better choice as that's what the rest of the scripts are in.

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