4 replies to this topic

[dirkfirst]

How do I output RSS?

I've created a project like:

<?php

// Print our RSS
print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>\n\n";
print "<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC \"-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN\" \"http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd\">\n";
print "<rss version=\"0.91\">\n";
print "		<channel>\n";
print "			<title>Text Ads</title>\n";
print "			<description>Ads</description>";
print "			<language>en</language>\n";

?>

But it doesn't show up in XML format when I load the webpage. Anyone know why?

[TkTech]

your missing the endings for one thing, such as </channel>, which creates invalid xml anyways.

Try looking at http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html which is a great site for creating rss feeds, its where I learned from.

Whenever I need to use RSS for output, I use RSSWriter.
http://usefulinc.com/rss/rsswriter/

Very handy and easy to use, expecialy for large sites/projects.

[dirkfirst]

Well, I do have the ending tags but I didn't post all of the code.

I'll take a look at the rsswriter. What I've done so far seems to be read fine by other XML readers. No idea why it doesn't show up properly in the browser.

[Nightracer]

Looks fine to me. What were you using to test it?

[dirkfirst]

I was just going to the URL in FireFox. FF loads up rss differently but it wouldn't load mine that way. In the end, RSS readers read the data fine though. Not sure what the problem here was.