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Generating RSS Feeds using SimpleXML in PHP

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Generating RSS Feeds using SimpleXML in PHP

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  1. // create simplexml object 
  2. $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<rss version="2.0" encoding="utf-8"></rss>'); 
  3.  
  4. // static channel data
  5. $xml->addChild('channel'); 
  6. $xml->channel->addChild('title', 'FRD Videos RSS Feeds'); 
  7. $xml->channel->addChild('link', 'http://www.ste.com/feeds/'); 
  8. $xml->channel->addChild('description', 'Latest Videos at FRD');
  9. $xml->channel->addChild('language', 'en-us'); 
  10. $xml->channel->addChild('webMaster', '[email protected]');
  11. $xml->channel->addChild('generator', 'PHP SimpleXML');
  12. $xml->channel->addChild('docs', 'http://www.site.com/videos.xml');
  13. $xml->channel->addChild('pubDate', date(DATE_RSS)); 
  14. // static channel data ( we get more from db in section below)
  15.  
  16. // query database for article data
  17.    ... 
  18. // query database for article data
  19.  
  20. // Here we get more date from database for our xml
  21.  
  22. while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { 
  23.     // add item element for each article 
  24.     $item = $xml->channel->addChild('item'); 
  25.     $item->addChild('title', htmlentities($row['title'])); 
  26.     $item->addChild('link', 'http://www.site.com/'.$row['id'].'.html');
  27. 	$item->addChild('description', htmlentities($row['description'])); 
  28.     $item->addChild('pubDate', date(DATE_RSS, strtotime($row['date_added']))); 
  29. } 
  30.  
  31. // Here we get more date from database for our xml
  32.  
  33. // save the xml to a file 
  34. if($xml->asXML('videos.xml'))
  35. {
  36. 	header('Location:videos.xml');
  37. }

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