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Creating an RSS Feed From Your Site

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If you syndicate your content with an RSS feed it can help to drive additional traffic to the content pages.

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// your DB connection goes here
define('LINKBASE','http://yoursite.com/');
$sql=$yourDB->query("SELECT pageTitle,pageLink,pageDesc,pageDate FROM pageTab ORDER BY pageDate DESC LIMIT 10");
$cnt=$sql->rowCount();  
// NOW WE NEED TO DO THE HEADING FOR THE FEED
$feedMainLink=LINKBASE.'feedname.xml';
$mainDate=date("D, d M Y H:i:s O"); // format the date to the rss 2.0 standard
$rssfeed='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
// WE'LL USE HEREDOC TO BUILD THE HEADING LINES
$rssfeed.=<<<HEAD
    <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>TITLE of the FEED</title>
        <link>$feedMainLink</link>
        <description>A selection of the latest articles, editorials and script snippets</description>
        <pubDate>$mainDate</pubDate>
HEAD;
// NOW WE CAN LOOP OUT THE ITEMS
    $rowBlock=$sql->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);    
    for ($i=0;$i<$cnt;$i++);
        {
            $row=$rowBlock[$i];
            $PgLink=LINKBASE.$row['pageLink'];
            $pubDate=date("D, d M Y H:i:s O", strtotime($row['pageDate']));
    $rssfeed.=<<<ITEM
        <item>
            <title>{$row['pageTitle']}</title>
            <description>{$row['pageDesc']}...</description>
            <link>$pageLink</link>
            <pubDate>$pubDate</pubDate>
        </item>
ITEM;
        }
    }
$rssfeed .= '</channel>';
$rssfeed .= '</rss>';
file_put_contents('feedname.xml', $rssfeed);