QUESTION: What software do you use to create your RSS feeds?
 

It seems there's many available. Which do you use?
Thank you for your time.

I mouseover'd you feind. :321GFY

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just post using wordpress and allow syndication

Where's the data coming from?
I mean we're just talking RSS, which is just XML which is pretty much just text with some greater / lessthan tags around shit, right?

Where's the data coming from?
I mean we're just talking RSS, which is just XML which is pretty much just text with some greater / lessthan tags around shit, right?

Well I'm toying with a new idea for a website. But I suppose I'll have to keep digging. Thanks.

I was just curious what your data format looks like and what platform you were using. If you have a database but not platform, you can pretty much convert anything to an RSS feed. Fuck it, even text files could help. To keep it kind of non-geeky though, take the database schema below and my really shitty explanation :)

table: HookersIFucked
columns:
id: some primary key shit
name: stores text of hooker name
title: name of the night, i.e.: "Back of cab. Hooker hit cabby in head with condom"
description: how i laid the hooker in the back of a cab... blah blah blah.
myalias_thatnight: did she call you "don" or "rob"
date_i_laid_hooker: date of incident

Now, if you have a random database with a table populated with shit like above, you can take that data and format it to an RSS feed... Apologies again on my shitty explanation below as it's unusable in any situation:

<?php
$header=<<<EOQ
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>
<title>I'm a hooker fucker</title>
<link>http://www.ilikepie.com</link>
<description>Pie and hookers meet in an awesome experience.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
EOQ;

// get database results somehow
$results = $db->getHookersIFucked();

// create string to spit to browser
$string = "";
while($results = $hookerIFucked)
{
$string.=<<<EOQ
<item>
<title>$hookerIFucked->getTitle()</title>
<link>http://www.ilikepie.com/$hookerIFucked->getId()/</link>
<description>$hookerIFucked->getDescription()</description>
</item>
}
$string.=<<<EOQ
</channel>
</rss>
EOQ;

header("Content-Type: text/xml");
echo $string;
exit;
?>

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k. probably all bad advice so I'm leaving now. Sorry to bump with the above nonsense.

Thank you that's actually very useful to me. I was approaching this from entirely the wrong angle, it seems.:thumbsup

Look, I just wrote some cockamaymee crap. If anyone tells you "RSS" is something special, kick them in the nuts. It's just text, formatted a certain way and sent out a certain way. That's where my crap stops and someone with a system to spam a RSS feed into many aggregators, get it crawled, get you traffic, yadda yadda and all that other shit -- I've got no help. :( But others will.

Thus another bump, yo.