Well sort of anyway. But an explanation of that later. The important thing is, after only starting to explore RSS this morning, I know have built a working feed for one of my websites, Branch Planet. The sort of refers to the fact that Nerd Federation already has several. But they came with the package, I custom coded this one.
My basic problem was, I didn’t want to, well to be more correct, wasn’t going to update it manually – it had to be done automatically, taking stories from the database. Therefore I needed a server side script with a content header. Thanks to a PHP script and mod_rewrite, it now has a .xml address too!
You can check out the feed at http://www.branchplanet.com/recent.xml. It contains the latest 10 updates with the post date / time, the first 50 words of the story and a link to the full page. So it’s a good job I added that individual news stories page a few days ago.
RSS is here to stay according to Apple so I am happy that I have got into it. I am probably going to do a feed for Worfolk News sometime in the near future. If you are producing a feed, there is a primer by Who Is Hosting This, check it out here.
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