does anyone know of a good script which can put the content of rss feeds into a database? i checked hotscripts but its hard to narrow something down from all the search results ...

do you mean rss feeds from the other sites?

thats correct

I assume you are using PHP.

PHP comes with an XML parsing module called simplexml and it is indeed simple. You can use it to read rss feeds from other site. Just fetch the elements that you want to put in your database, start a MySQL connection, and put away those elements.

But why would you even want to store rss feeds in to your own database when you can easily fetch them from the other site?

One is Newstopica.
I am planning to do an upgrade to this script soon, but the existing one works pretty good already with RSS and Atom feeds.