Looking For The Right Aggregator / Mesh Package

I have spent many hours researching this and testing various packages with no luck. So I'm looking for suggestions from the experts.

I am needing an RSS "aggregator" that can accept multiple search engine (mostly) RSS feeds and mesh them together. I will output that feed to a Joomla page using their newsfeed mambot, so any standard RSS output should work. In addition, I have the following other requirements:

Server based (Apache cPanel, PHP), for maximum search engine exposure. Web based if I absolutely have to...

Need to be able to assemble and output multiple meshed RSS feeds.

Need to be able to sort feed items by date and hopefully, time.

Would like to be able to display date and time and hopefully, how long ago the news article was posted (ie: Posted 3 hours ago...).

Needs to strip duplicate items.

Need the ability to easily "re-feed", or make available these feeds in my own rss feed that my readers can subscribe to.

While I have written a couple very basic PHP scripts, I'm not a programmer, so it needs to perform with a minimal amount of "tweaking".

I have tried many different open-source options, and none do what I need them to do. I have not purchased a package yet, I hesitate to do this as I don't know what package, if any, would meet my needs.

Now hopefully one of you will have the suggestion that will make my life easier.

 

It can be done using PHP and MagpieRSS and a database to store the feed items.

 

I've heard good things about Magpie and Simplepie, but I've never tried to use them. One of them is probably your solution.

 

Thanks for the responses. I was hoping for a package I could drop on the server, and using both SimplePie and Magpie requires coding. Granted, it's not heavy duty coding, but trying to incorporate either into Joomla is intimidating.

I have a partial, marginal solution, I'm using Yahoo Pipes, which is a very cool tool. I use that to aggregate, order, and strip dupes, then I use the Joomla mambot to display the Yahoo Pipes feed. The formatting isn't perfect, but it's not bad. I still need to solve the re-feed part of the problem.

I'm still hoping for that perfect package, so if anyone knows of it jump on in.

 

You could pay someone (me?) to use magpie to aggregate all of the feeds into a new feed which you can feed to joomla.

 

We go from a quest for information to a sales pitch?

 

You weren't getting anything else useful. Wish I knew.

 

It can be achieved with a php script. It just depends if you are willing to write it.