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Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL

Oct 25, 2006

[From WebReference]

RSS has become the standard technology for syndicating information to large audiences. Many people have something to say, but its finding the right audience for your voice that matters. A great place to start is by creating your own RSS feed and adding to it as often as you can.

In this article you’ll learn how to syndicate your own custom RSS feeds using PHP and MySQL. We’ll first learn how to create two database tables and then how to retrieve data from them which will be formatted into an RSS feed. Here’s an example of the completed RSS feed and a download link to the code. Let’s start by taking a look at how to create the MySQL database tables.

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http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/custom_feeds/

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