Rss Feed

[ecko]

Hey Guys,

I am a complete noob with RSS Feeds and implementing them into my website. I have done some research and came across some parser's but they all are very limited and with ads. My goal is to implement the rss feed with php (according to research its better than javascript).

If anyone can shine some light on the how-to I would really appreciate it. More information and suggestions the better.

Thanks!

[Jon-86]

Basically you look at how RSS feeds are formatted. And then use that to encapsulate some content, that an RSS reader can parse. A typical example is news feeds. The RSS reader would read the feed, who the title of each item in the feed, when clicked it will then display the content of that item.

[ecko]

Thanks for the insight. So what would you suggest I use to implement it into my website and have some sort of flexibility? (with no ads wither)

[Jon-86]

Any server-side language will do since your getting this information from your server. PHP is the most accessible for the average person. You cant really use Javascript to implement the generation of an RSS feed. It will be a simple case of retrieving the content from somewhere, could be a databse or text file or whatever. Then you take this content and make it safe (meaning it doesn't contain any HTML characters that will distort the output) then output the feed in the format you choose to use placing the content in the place its supposed to be.

You can google for examples of this.

[liljim]

Quick and simple example for http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml :

<?php

$rss = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents('http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml'));

// print_r($rss) to see details of the feed and how you might go about accessing the
// parts you're after
foreach($rss->channel->item as $item) {
	// entify these as necessary
	echo $item->title . "\n";
	echo $item->description . "\n";
}

?>

[DearonElensar]

Magpie RSS?