problem setting pubDate with Zend_Feed

[Tjorriemorrie]

Hey, I'm trying to build my own feed after the user has created or edited a post. However, even though I set the pubDate in the entries, Zend still goes and overwrite it with the current timestamp, even worse the timestamp is in the wrong timezone

 

Can anyone help me figure out how to set the pubDate of the entries as per the date of the data?

private function setXml()
{
	function cmpEntries($a , $b)
	{
		$a_time = strtotime($a['pubDate']);
		$b_time = strtotime($b['pubDate']);
		if ($a_time == $b_time) {
			return 0;
		}
		return ($a_time > $b_time) ? -1 : 1;
	}

	$entries = array();

	$blogDb = new Model_Blog();
	$blogs = $blogDb->getAllBlogs();		
	foreach ($blogs as $blog) {
		$entry = array(
			'title' => $blog->title,
			'link' => 'http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/blog/entry/' . $blog->id,
			'description' => htmlentities(nl2br($blog->description)),
			'pubDate' => date('r', $blog->date)
		);
		array_push($entries, $entry);
	}

	$poemsDb = new Model_Poem();
	$poems = $poemsDb->getAllPoems();
	foreach ($poems as $poem) {
		$entry = array(
			'title' => $poem->title,
			'link' => 'http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/poems/entry/' . $poem->id,
			'description' => 'New poem from Aviya.',
			'pubDate' => date('r', $poem->date)
		);
		array_push($entries, $entry);
	}		

	usort($entries, 'cmpEntries');

	$feed = array(
		'title' => 'Aviya',
		'link' => 'http://www.aviyacrest.com',
		'charset' => 'UTF-8',
		'entries' => $entries
	);

	$rss = Zend_Feed::importArray($feed, 'rss');
	$rssFeed = $rss->saveXML();

	try {
		$fh = fopen(PUBLIC_PATH . '/blog.xml', 'w');
		fwrite($fh, $rssFeed);
		fclose($fh);
		return true;
	} catch (Zend_Exception $e) {
		$this->message = $e->getMessage();
		return false;
	}
}

 

Here's an extract of the xml file:

    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Fragile]]></title>
      <link>http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/blog/entry/21</link>
      <description><![CDATA[understand others by understanding yourself]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[We have done the same]]></title>
      <link>http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/poems/entry/17</link>
      <description><![CDATA[New poem from Aviya.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
    </item>

[ArneR]

Hi,

 

works as designed :-)

 

You have to change your feed-entry array to

 

foreach ($blogs as $blog) {
         $entry = array(
            'title' => $blog->title,
            'link' => 'http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/blog/entry/' . $blog->id,
            'description' => htmlentities(nl2br($blog->description)),
            'published' => date('r', $blog->date)
         );
         array_push($entries, $entry);
      }

 

The class checking for the "published" key not "pubDate"

 

Greetings,

Arne

[Tjorriemorrie]

foreach ($blogs as $blog) {
         $entry = array(
            'title' => $blog->title,
            'link' => 'http://www.aviyacrest.com/index/blog/entry/' . $blog->id,
            'description' => htmlentities(nl2br($blog->description)),
            'published' => date('r', $blog->date)
         );
         array_push($entries, $entry);
      }

 

Thanks Arne, I'll have to check that. I got it working as 'lastUpdate'. Weird. Also, the value should be long, therefore it should not be date('r', $blog->date) but just $blog->date.

 

Thanks for the reply.

Tjorriemorrie