talismon

how do i/where can i find out how to put an rss feed php style onto my website?

camp185

Not sure what you mean, but I have a rss feed that automatically updates every hour by grabbing the new content from a database. I have a cron file tell a php file to write an rss file. I can help you set one up for $50.

Here is a link to it in action: New Polls on APC

I can also make it so you just manually enter data, and when you submit it automatically writes a new rss file.

etono

You can go about it with two different techniques.

Output XML by having your feed be called like http://example.com/rss.php

You will want to add a header before you output any data so that your php file will be treated as an xml file. Your script will start with something like this:
header("Content-type: text/xml");
echo '<?xml version="1.0"?>';

The other preferred way is to actually create an example file that would be called like http://example.com/rss.xml. This is preferred as some RSS readers will not recognize the .php extension. To create the file just make sure your rss.xml file is writable, once again you will start off like this:

$rss = <?xml version="1.0"?>';
//Finish your complete RSS file here
if(is_writable('rss.xml')){
if(!$handle = fopen('rss.xml', 'w')){
echo "Unable to open or create RSS file";
exit();
}
if(fwrite($handle, $rss) === false){
echo "Unable to write to RSS file";
exit();
}
echo "You successfully created the RSS file
fclose($handle);
}

Hope this helps to get you started.

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