Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/13/07 14:11

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

> I'm using PHP 4.4.4 with Apache 2.2. I'm looking for recommendations
> on free code I can use to generate RSS feeds.

Here's the class I use for my current project.
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/demiblog/trunk/blog/includes/Feed.class?revision=73&content-type=text%2Fplain

It's uses PHP 5, but it should be reasonably simple to backport to PHP 4.

Basic technique is:

<?php
require_once 'Feed.class';
$type = 'rss';

$feed = Feed::factory($type);
$feed->title = 'Example';
$feed->url = 'http://example.com/';
$feed->summary = '<p>Here is <b>my</b> site. It is nice.</p>';
$feed->langguage = 'en_GB';
$feed->add_item('Article 1',
'http://example.com/articles/1',
'<p>Article 1 is lovely.</p>');
$feed->add_item('Article 2',
'http://example.com/articles/2',
'<p>Article 2 is even <b>better!</b>.</p>');
$out = $feed->output();

header("Content-Type: text/xml");
print $out;
?>

It supports:

- RSS 0.91
- RSS 1.0 (RDF)
- RSS 2.0 (with or without HTML descriptions)
- Atom 1.0 (with or without HTML descriptions)
- HTML/hCalendar
- iCalendar
- JSON
- PHP serialize()
- Text (CSV)

as output formats. It is reasonably easy to add support for other formats.

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