Blogs and RSS

[Pests]

I've started my own blogging system and it has been running smoothly for awhile. Now some of my users are requesting an RSS feed. Could someone direct me to a link or show me how to output the nessisary xml for the feed based on my blogging entries?

Also, since this topic is new to me I want to learn how to read the feeds and find out whats new on my blog, via coding. Again could someone show me how or direct me to a link?

[drew010]

here is a sample rss feed from a popular blog program.
http://cafelog.com/b2rss.php
all the rss is, is a type of xml file that presents your data in an extensible format so it can be parsed by various xml parsers. this makes it easy for other sites to take the information and present it in their own format.

[MarkR]

In keeping with other RSS feeds, be sure that your output is sometimes badly formed.

Make sure that you don't correctly escape strings.

Pay scant attention to encodings, ideally send the file as one encoding but claim to be another.

This way you will continue to test the abilities of RSS feeders to read rubbish XML.

Once finished, serve with the wrong content type and don't bother with having correct last-modified and expires headers.

Or alternatively, break with convention and actually make correct XML in all cases. Perhaps even take care to use a library which generates correct XML.

Mark