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rss from dynamic page? - Marcello Santos - 05-28-2006
anyone know a way to generate valid rss files from dynamic (php/mysql) web pages? and if not, maybe we could say - rss from plain old html.
Re: rss from dynamic page? - Seacrest - 05-28-2006
Create a separate file called "indexrss.php" (or whatever)
Iterate over your mysql results and create the xml instead of html.
You will need to set the content type to xml with a header('Content-type: text/xml') directive.
Optionally, you can add to your HTML page's head section.
Re: rss from dynamic page? - The UnDoug - 05-28-2006
Ah, Seacrest...you make it all look so simple.
You are my web design hero! (really!)
Re: rss from dynamic page? - Marcello Santos - 05-29-2006
Seacrest is the champion, for sure.
But your humble servant doesn't quite understand the
header('Content-type: text/xml')
bit
if under normal circumstances, a file called feed.rss begins with:
do you mean that this should be placed on the first line, above those two lines?:
;
Re: rss from dynamic page? - Marcello Santos - 05-29-2006
eh
I figured it out...
this goes first:
then:
any queries/other php header stuff
then:
while deliberately leaving out this:
Re: rss from dynamic page? - Seacrest - 05-29-2006
All headers must be sent before any data is output to the browser, so yeah.