RSS Feeds:

viraj

I would like to know how can one make use of RSS Feeds for optimising the containts of the web site dynamically?

What is the purpose of these feeds and how do they work in practise? Are they open source and do they require any software to create? How easy is to manage and edit them for dynamic containts?

And lot. Please start discussing these and make me knowledgeble...

Viraj

coreymanshack

rohan2kool

like you have been using php to write dynamic html, you can use php to dynamically generate any sort of content.. even binary formats like images, music files or whatever.

coming back to the point, you can use php to generate rss as well. RSS is an XML specification. You can check out: http://w3schools.com/rss/default.asp

also, there are some libraries out there which you can use to generate dynamic RSS.

brutal_sound

viraj

So where do I exactly post these rss feeds....?

rohan2kool

there seems to be a conflict of concept around here.. what exactly do you mean by 'post an rss feed'? If you mean deployment, RSS feeds are generally distributed via links on a webpage.. but i doubt if that's your question.

what i think might be the answer to ur question is, RSS feeds for ur site are generated by content on ur site. Just like you use php to collect some data over from php and display a dynamic page, you can pick up content and pack it into an RSS feed and then distribute it over.

Like, for ex., you might link to http://mypage.com/feed.xml. Now, feed.xml should actually be a dynamic page, one which php would parse. You need to change that it in httpd.conf. In case you don't wanna do that, you can even link an RSS feed to something like http://mypage.com/feed.php. The extension doesn't matter, the MIME type does [which for RSS would be: application/rss+xml].

now, feed.php can dynamically generate some output... which should be a valid RSS output. You can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS for a primer to the format.

viraj

How CMS files veri from RSS Feed?

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