newsfeed

<?php<br />
/* php-program for outputting an RSS 2.0 feed<br />
 * from entries stored in a MySQL table<br />
 */<br />
/*********************************<br />
 * data structure<br />
 * the table (entry object) has the following columns (properties).<br />
 * - guid (primary key identifier)<br />
 * - author (a simple, alphanumeric name)<br />
 * - author_email (valid email address - rss 2.0 requires this, so use a default)<br />
 * - title<br />
 * - content<br />
 * - posted (datetime field)<br />
 * - link_url<br />
 *********************************/<br />
/*************************<br />
 * fetch items from table (adapt for column identifiers)<br />
 *************************/<br />
function get_items() {<br />
  $sql = "select<br />
      guid,<br />
      author,<br />
      author_mail,<br />
      title,<br />
      content,<br />
      unix_timestamp(posted) as posted,<br />
      link_url<br />
    from items<br />
    order by posted desc<br />
    limit 0,10;";<br />
  $res = mysql_query($sql);<br />
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($res))  $rows[]=$row;<br />
  return $rows;<br />
}<br />
/*************************<br />
 * connect to database (if you have a function for this already, remove this)<br />
 *************************/<br />
function dbconnect() {<br />
  $server = '';<br />
  $user   = '';<br />
  $pass   = '';<br />
  $db     = '';<br />
  $link=mysql_connect($server,$user,$pass);<br />
  mysql_select_db($link);<br />
  return $link;<br />
}<br />
$link = dbconnect();        // connect<br />
$items = get_items();        // fetch entries<br />
$update=$items[0]['posted'];      // determine newest date<br />
mysql_close($link);        // close connection<br />
header("Content-type: application/xml");  // send xml MIME type header<br />
// begin output<br />
?><?='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>'?><br />
<?='<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?>'?><br />
<rss version="2.0"><br />
  <channel><br />
    <title>Feed-Title</title></channel></rss></p>
<link />http://feed.url
  <description>This is the Feed Description</description><br />
  <language>en-us</language><br />
  <lastBuildDate><?=date("r",$updated)?></lastbuilddate><br />
  <ttl>900</ttl><br />
  <image><br />
    <title>Image Title</title><br />
    <url>http://image.net/image.jpg</url>
<link />http://feed.url
    <width>88</width><br />
    <height>31</height><br />
  </image><br />
<?php<br />
foreach ($items as $item) { // for each entry<br />
  /* write associative array to vars. saves space. */<br />
  foreach ($item as $name=>$value) $$name=$value;<br />
?><br />
    <item><br />
    <guid isPermaLink='false'><?=$guid?></guid><br />
    <title><?=$title?></title><br />
    <author><?=$author?> <<?=$author_mail?>></?=$author_mail?></author>
<link /><?=$link_url?>
    <description><?=$content?></description>
<pubDate><?=date("r",$posted)?></pubdate>
    </item><br />
<?php<br />
  foreach ($item as $name=>$value) $$name=''; // a precaution.<br />
}<br />
?><br />
  <br />