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In the final article of this series we’re going to write a script in PHP that will dynamically create an RSS feed from entries in a MySQL database.  If you decide to use this script in your own custom application, you may need to change parts of the script, such as the query.  You can [...]

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In the previous article I demonstrated a practical application of RSS with Google Reader.
Now that we have a working example of RSS in action, let’s dig a bit deeper and see what’s inside an RSS feed. For this article, we’re going to use RSS 2.0 as our primary example.
An RSS feed is made up of [...]

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Adam Darowski recently asked to pick my brain about writing a PHP script to create an RSS feed from a database. As one of my favorite “Web 2.0” technologies, I figured I would write a 3-part introductory series on RSS and PHP.
In this series I want to cover a couple topics:

What is RSS?

Digging [...]

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I doubt this is new, but I just thought of it just now, so it’s new to me! I’m taking advantage of the Google Reader feature to group my RSS/Atom feeds by tagging them. This concept in itself isn’t new, but what I thought of was to take the feeds of certain tags [...]

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One of the emerging technologies in this Web 2.0 fad is called “RSS” or Really Simple Syndication. This XML-based technology is used for a variety of purposes such as news feeds, podcasts, and sending out regularly updated information. As a matter of fact, this blog has an RSS feed; you can identify sites easily with [...]

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