Porkie Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>'; echo '<rss version="2.0">'; echo '<channel>'; // Opens our main content echo '<title>Test Website RSS Feed</title>'; // Defines the title of the RSS feed echo '<link>http://www.testsite.com</link>'; // Where the RSS feed is from echo '<description>This RSS feed is all about the pie.</description>'; // What its about $c = mysqli_connect('localhost', '', '', '') or die(mysqli_error($c)); // Connect with our information $q = mysqli_query($c, 'SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5') or die(mysqli_error($c)); // Query the table for 5 news articles sorting by 'id' while($r = mysqli_fetch_assoc($q)) // While there is more rows to get (max of 5) we get an associative array { echo '<item>'; // Begin a news article echo '<title>'.$r['title'].'</title>'; // Give it a title echo '<link>'.$r['permalink'].'</link>'; // The link to the article echo '<description>'.$r['content'].'</description>'; // The description or content of the article echo '<author>'.$r['author'].'</author>'; // The author echo '<pubDate>'.$r['date'].'</pubDate>'; // The date is was published echo '</item>'; // End news article } // End while statement echo '</channel>'; echo '</rss>'; /> im confused as when i load it up i get an error saying "XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://www.quad.co.uk/test1.xml Line Number 27, Column 3:?> --^" where could i be going wrong? thanks in advance Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/170149-confused-with-rss-in-php/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetanu Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I think it's the < > I'm not skilled in using RSS with PHP, but that struck me as one thing. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-phprss/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/170149-confused-with-rss-in-php/#findComment-897535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkie Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 still confused lol, i had it before and are really unsure about the problem Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/170149-confused-with-rss-in-php/#findComment-897552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetanu Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Why are you using the character codes for < and > ? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/170149-confused-with-rss-in-php/#findComment-897607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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