PHP RSS, Atom and Syndication

Rich Site Summary feeds, better known as RSS, are a great example of how XML is making a major impact in regards to the way information is consumed. This XML dialect is a popular format for summarizing information, typically, but not exclusively news-oriented data consisting of common attributes like a title, summary, author, and publish date. Building and distributing RSS feeds has become an increasingly popular practice for several reasons: Com...

In October and November, I wrote a two-part tutorial on reading RSS feeds in PHP. Partly motivated by the chance to introduce RSS to PHP coders who hadn t yet gotten an understanding of it, it was also motivated by my frustration in struggling to find an aggregator that did what I wanted it to. This month, I introduce an RSS/Atom aggregator that, so far, does just what I need. It s called Gregarius, which I originally thought was a misspelling o...

O Reilly Media, Inc. is rolling out a new syndication mechanism that provides greater control over the content we publish online. You ll notice some improvements immediately, such as better standards compliance, graphical tiles accompanying article descriptions, and enclosure support for podcatching applications. We ve tested the new feeds using a variety of popular newsreaders and aggregators, but we realize that there may be a few bumps along t...

I m sure everyone who calls themselves a PHP coder has heard of RSS. I have to include the disclaimer, as I m always surprised how little penetration concepts I take for granted have in the rest of the world. Recently, a colleague in the music industry started a blog. I saw there were no RSS feeds available, and asked him when they d be ready. He had no clue what I was talking about. I shouldn t really have been surprised. Nevertheless, RSS feed...

I m sure everyone who calls themselves a PHP coder has heard of RSS. I have to include the disclaimer, as I m always surprised how little penetration concepts I take for granted have in the rest of the world. Recently, a colleague in the music industry started a blog. I saw there were no RSS feeds available, and asked him when they d be ready. He had no clue what I was talking about. I shouldn t really have been surprised. Nevertheless, RSS feed...

This week s article continues on where we left off last time. Please read part one first if you haven t yet done so, as the code examples in this tutorial build upon what we created there. To begin with, let s create two new rss feeds to read. We re going to combine them into one feed, and display them combined on one page, in the correct date order. These two sample feeds are loosely based on some of the feeds supplied by Independent Online. Not...

This month s article continues on where we left off last time. Please read part one first if you haven t yet done so, as the code examples in this tutorial build upon what we created there. To begin with, let s create two new rss feeds to read. We re going to combine them into one feed, and display them combined on one page, in the correct date order. These two sample feeds are loosely based on some of the feeds supplied by Independent Online. No...

An RSS feed lets webmasters tease visitors into returning to their websites again and again to check out new content. Danny Wall explains how to set up this simple, automated, spamless way of getting Web surfers to come back for more.