Rss Feed

[eluser]Dimitrio[/eluser]
Hello,

Using CI, my webapp has a home page that populates with data from the DB, think of it as a microbloggin clone.

How do I go about creating a rss feed for it?

Sorta new to PHP.

Thnx.

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
http://www.derekallard.com/blog/post/bui...de-igniter

[eluser]Dimitrio[/eluser]
Thank you so much,

I actually tried googling it, but to no avail.

That will work perfectly.

D

[eluser]giannis[/eluser]
Thanks for the instructions Derek. Works like a charm.

Just a small observation...Shouldnt we add at the top of the rss view the following :

Code:

header("Content-Type: text/xml");

That because although the modern browsers render the xml document and present it, IE 6 (how bizzare !!!) cannot do this.

Thus if you try to open your rss feed link with IE 6 you will get an error message.

By adding the above, IE 6 will just display the xml document and not complain about the output of the script.

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
It depends on how "valid" you want your feed to be.
http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/En...match.html

RSS feeds should be served as application/rss+xml (RSS 1.0 is an RDF format, so it may be served as application/rdf+xml instead). Atom feeds should use application/atom+xml. Alternatively, for compatibility with widely-deployed web browsers, any of these feeds can use one of the more general XML types - preferably application/xml.