Making my title a link

[nicky666]

Hi

 

I'm trying to create a rss feed and I would like to make the title the link that goes to its respective news. When I add the <a> tags everything disappears but it shows up in the page source and if I remove the <a> tags the it shows up in the web page but the title doesn't link to anything.

	<?php
	ini_set('display_errors', 1);
	header("Content-type: text/xml");
	include("config.php");
	global $NEWS;
	$str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
	$str.= '<rss version="2.0">';
	$str.='<channel>';
	$sql = "SELECT * FROM $NEWS";

	$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ($sql."".mysql_error());

	while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
	    $str.= '<item>';
		$str.='	<a href="'.getSEOLink(13).'&article='.$row->id.'">';
	    $str.= '<title>'.$row->title.'</title></a>';
	    $str.= '<description><![CDATA['.$row->content. ']]></description>';
	    $str.= '</item>';
	}

	$str .='</channel>';
	$str .='</rss>';
	echo $str;
	?>

[paddy_fields]

You need to close the <a> tag as well. The content between the tags is what will be displayed as the text on the link.

 

<a href="the_address.php">the link text</a>

 

EDIT: sorry, scrap that, I just saw it's on the next line

Edited January 31, 2014 by paddyfields

[cyberRobot]

Here are a list of tags to use within the <item> tag for an RSS feed:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html#hrelementsOfLtitemgt

[nicky666]

I finally got it to work.

I had to remove the <a> tags and put <link> elements in and the I had to remove the & and put in &

 

Here is my code so that someone else can understand what I mean.

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
header("Content-type: text/xml");
include("config.php");
global $NEWS;
$str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
$str.= '<rss version="2.0">';
$str.='<channel>';
$sql = "SELECT * FROM $NEWS";

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ($sql."".mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
    $str.= '<item>';
    $str.= '<title>'.$row->title.'</title>';
    $str.= '<link>'.getSEOLink(13).'&article='.$row->id.'</link>';
    $str.= '<description><![CDATA['.$row->content. ']]></description>';
    $str.= '</item>';
}

$str .='</channel>';
$str .='</rss>';
echo $str;
?>