FeedCreator.class.php for webdesign pages
formerly RSSCreator.class.php
Download v1.7.2 (ZIP, 22 KB), Source code
Licensed under the LGPL.
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RSS is an exciting, yet not quite new standard that lets you publish news from your page for other pages to syndicate.
FeedCreator.class.php provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using ease to use classes.
Pages which used feedcreator.class.php are the following:
The webdesign pages used following features:
Features: | creates valid feeds according to RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0 as well as PIE 0.1 (deprecated), OPML 1.0, Unix mbox, ATOM 0.3, or customizable HTML or Javascript format. configurable feed caching very well documented and easy to use Feed image includes almost all RSS 0.91 attributes decide which version to create during runtime easy to use and well documented class interface intelligently truncates strings when needed |
Example for building an RSS 1.0 feed:
<?
include("feedcreator.class.php");
$rss = new UniversalFeedCreator();
$rss->useCached();
$rss->title = "PHP news";
$rss->description = "daily news from the PHP scripting world";
$rss->link = "http://www.dailyphp.net/news";
$rss->syndicationURL = "http://www.dailyphp.net/".$PHP_SELF;
$image = new FeedImage();
$image->title = "dailyphp.net logo";
$image->url = "http://www.dailyphp.net/images/logo.gif";
$image->link = "http://www.dailyphp.net";
$image->description = "Feed provided by dailyphp.net. Click to visit.";
$rss->image = $image;
// get your news items from somewhere, e.g. your database:
mysql_select_db($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass);
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY newsdate DESC");
while (
$data = mysql_fetch_object($res)) {
$item = new FeedItem();
$item->title = $data->title;
$item->link = $data->url;
$item->description = $data->short;
$item->date = $data->newsdate;
$item->source = "http://www.dailyphp.net";
$item->author = "John Doe";
$rss->addItem($item);
}
$rss->saveFeed("RSS1.0", "news/feed.xml");
?>
Version history:
v1.7.2 | 10-11-04 changed license to LGPL |
v1.7.1 | fixed a syntax bug fixed left over debug code |
v1.7 | 07-18-04 added HTML and JavaScript feeds (configurable via CSS) (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) added HTML descriptions for all feed formats (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) added a switch to select an external stylesheet (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) changed default content-type to application/xml added character encoding setting fixed numerous smaller bugs (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) improved changing ATOM versions handling (thanks to August Trometer) improved the UniversalFeedCreator’s useCached method (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) added charset output in HTTP headers (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) added Slashdot namespace to RSS 1.0 (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) |
v1.6 | 05-10-04 added stylesheet to RSS 1.0 feeds fixed generator comment (thanks Kevin L. Papendick and Tanguy Pruvot) fixed RFC822 date bug (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) added TimeZone customization for RFC8601 (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) fixed Content-type could be empty (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) fixed author/creator in RSS1.0 (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) |
v1.6 beta | 02-28-04 Added Atom 0.3 support (not all features, though) Improved OPML 1.0 support (hopefully – added more elements) Added support for arbitrary additional elements (use with caution and see documentation) code beautification 🙂 considered beta due to some internal changes |
v1.5.1 | 27-01-04 minor bug fixes and improvements |
v1.5 | 06-01-04 added OPML 1.0 support added more documentation |
v1.4 | 11-11-03 optional feed saving and caching improved documentation minor improvements |
v1.3 | 10-02-03 renamed to FeedCreator, as it not only creates RSS anymore added support for mbox tentative support for echo/necho/atom/pie/??? (thanks to Scott Reynen) |
v1.2 | 07-20-03 intelligent auto-truncating of RSS 0.91 attributes don’t create some attributes when they’re not set documentation improved fixed a real and a possible bug with date conversions code cleanup |
v1.1 | 07-03-03 added images to feeds now includes most RSS 0.91 attributes added RSS 2.0 feeds oops, forgot to include a necessary function 😉 |
v1.0 | 06-24-03 first version |