PHP Creating an atom feed

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How do I go about creating an atom feed in PHP?

Have you done any research? This is a pretty decent article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-phpatomfeed/index.html — Ben Everard, Nov 09 '09 at 14:45

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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An update for anyone that may stumble upon this thread:

A very similar question was asked in The best PHP lib/class to generate RSS/Atom and it lead to a number of good lib/roll your own recommendations.

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answered Jun 23 '10 at 17:49

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '09 at 14:47

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Use a library.

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '09 at 14:49

Wikipedia has an example of what an ATOM feed looks like. Feel free to modify this very basic RSS class that I wrote a long while ago to create a very simple RSS feed:

class RSSFeed
{       
    var $feedHeader;
    var $feedItems;

    /* Class Constructor */
    function RSSFeed()
    {
        //do some contruction
        $this->feedHeader = '';
        $this->feedItems = '';
    }

    function setFeedHeader($title, $link, $description, $copyright, $lastBuildDate, $ttl)
    {
        $this->feedHeader = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel>';
        $this->feedHeader .= '<title>'.$title.'</title>';
        $this->feedHeader .= '<link>'.$link.'</link>';
        $this->feedHeader .= '<description>'.$description.'</description><copyright>'.$copyright.'</copyright>';
        $this->feedHeader .= '<language>en-GB</language><lastBuildDate>'.$lastBuildDate.' GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>'.$ttl.'</ttl>';
    }

    function pushItem($title, $link, $description, $pubDateTime)
    {
        $item = '<item><title>' . htmlentities(stripslashes($title)) . '</title>';
        $item .= '<link>' . $link . '</link>';
        $item .= '<guid>' . $link . '</guid>';
        $item .= '<description>' . htmlentities(stripslashes($description)) . '</description>';

        $item .= '<pubDate>' . $pubDateTime . ' GMT</pubDate></item>';

        $this->feedItems = $item . $this->feedItems;
    }

    function writeOutFeed($path)
    {
        $file = fopen($path, "w");
        fputs($file, $this->feedHeader);
        fputs($file, $this->feedItems);
        fputs($file, '</channel></rss>');
        fclose($file);
    }
}

You aren’t escaping virtually anything! What if there is a literal tag in the item title or description? The output will be borked. `O_O` — Alan H., Jun 15 '11 at 23:39

PHP Creating an atom feed

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