[Merovingian]

Ive been wanting to look this up but dont seem to find anything thats worth trying so ill post this question here.
"Does anyone know where i can find a good tutorial for making an RSS News feed in PHP ?" if so please PM me or reply to this post.
I want to test this out so I can add one to my personal site as an "updates section" for my site.

Thanks in Advance

[blaw]

Hello,

I once made an RSS Feed generation script for my blog app, and when I did it, this page really helped me: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss . Yet this is RSS2.0 spec, rather than tutorial.

In a nutshell, RSS is an XML, or a simple text, so you can just fwrite() your RSS in accordance with your news updates and let users read this generated page. I did exacly that and had no problem viewing with RSS readers like FeedDemon. PHP5 may have a better way to generate RSS files with objects, but I've not touched it yet, so I can't really comment on it.

I'm sorry if I'm off, but hope this gives you some idea.

[RynO]

http://searchenginewatch.com/serepor...le.php/2175271

That seems like a good article to get versed in RSS with.

All you need to do to output an RSS feed using php is use the following header:

header("Content-Type: text/xml");

[notepage]

Hi,

Originally Posted by Merovingian

Ive been wanting to look this up but dont seem to find anything thats worth trying so ill post this question here.
"Does anyone know where i can find a good tutorial for making an RSS News feed in PHP ?"

We've just released a beta version of FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com an rss feed creation tool. We would welcome comments and suggestions from those interested in rss and feed creation.

Thank you
Sharon Housley
NotePage, Inc.
http://www.notepage.net

[websmart]

There are open source News/blog creation scripts available which ALSO
create rss feeds for those news : on one of our sites we use zshaped
news system which displays news created on our website as well as
generate RSS feeds for that, pings blogs.com, send news to friend links,
trackbacks etc. etc.

example : http://www.specialistdoctors.com/news.php

RSS feed example : http://www.specialistdoctors.com/news/rss.php

For display news on other pages, there are lot of options available, including
javascript generators which can place your news anywhere, including inside
a table cell. See example of same news page items on home page :

http://www.specialistdoctors.com


The posting for feedforall.com beta version seems good but on their site
they make it clear that you will get discount for registered version. Means,
as soon as they release final product, buy it or stop using it on your site.

Another blog system on test can be viewed there which is article/news/blog
system :
http://specialistdoctors.com/articles/blog_all.php

On that page, see at right side, bottom : automatic provided RSS feeds for
articles created. Administration pages have so many options to control articles
contributors with different rights etc. This (b2evolution) article system is also
GPL licence - free to use and modify as per your needs.

There are many. Which will be best for you, depends on your webhost type
also, what they have installed : PHP, Perl (your own cgi-bin directory), your
rights on server, etc.