set up a simple rss feeds using php

[Iluvatar+]

I have a blog i created and i want to be able to create a page that can deal with the rss feeds. I have never done it before so if any one can give me some sugestions thats would be great.

[sandeep529]

Do you want to provide an rss feed to the user, or you want to use data from external RSS feeds to be displayed in your site?

 

RSS is basically xml so what you will need to do will be XML parsing or XML generation...you can try SimpleXML or DOM XML functions...

 

There is also a class I have created for xml parsing/generation/manipulation called crXml, the usage of which I have outlined in the thread

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=351131.msg1657792#msg1657792

 

 

[Iluvatar+]

I want it to provide an rss feed to the user for each blog post.

[sandeep529]

Will this work...?

 

This uses the class I mentioned in previous message....

 

$blog = array(  array('name'=>'entry 1','title'=>'title 1','type'=>'misc')  , array('name'=>'entry 2','title'=>'title 2','type'=>'misc2','anotherEntry'=>'entry content')          );

include 'crXml.php';
$crxml = new crxml;

foreach($blog as $c => $entry) {
foreach($entry as $k=>$v) {
$crxml->item[$c]->$k = $v;
}
}
echo $crxml->xml();

 

Outputs 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item>
  <name>entry 1</name>
  <title>title 1</title>
  <type>misc</type>
</item>
<item>
  <name>entry 2</name>
  <title>title 2</title>
  <type>misc2</type>
  <anotherEntry>entry content</anotherEntry>
</item>

 

Just replace the blog array with any content from your blog.....

 

[Iluvatar+]

Thanks worked like a charm!