RSS 2.0 Writer

eporue

I am also trying to find code for creating a RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures (pictures), and the only one I have found so far is this one:

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/gems/rss_2_php_script.txt

Althought enclosures are not defined by default.

I think the only change needed in the script is changing the end to:

// display an item
ECHO <<<END

  <item>
     <title>$title</title>
     <link>$link</link>
     <description>$description</description>
     <enclosure url="$url_of_the_pic" length="$size_of_the_pic" type="image/jpeg"/>
     <pubDate>$pubDate</pubDate>
     <guid isPermaLink="false">$guid</guid>
  </item>
END;

}

ECHO <<<END

   </channel>
</rss>
END;

?>

I basically only added

 
<enclosure url="$url_of_the_pic" length="$size_of_the_pic" type="image/jpeg"/>

I will try this later, but should work. I am trying to add an RSS feed to our lingerie websites were the favorite lingerie designs' pictures are included in the feed. We think it will be very popular !! 🙂

eporue

I found some difficulties creating my RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures.

As I mentioned before, I am adapting a version of:

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/gems/rss_2_php_script.txt

to which I add:

<enclosure url="$url_of_the_pic" length="$size_of_the_pic" type="image/jpeg"/>

All works fine, except that in order to get the value for the lenght I am trying to do:

$size_of_the_pic=getimagesize(http://url);

But what I get back is not a number with the size of the jpg. Instead, I get back:

Array

Anybody knows what happens ??

If I do echos I get:

echo $size_of_the_pic
echo $size_of_the_pic[0]
echo $size_of_the_pic[1]

I get:

Array
480
560

So I can get the height and width, but not the size !!!

Help please, anybody knows why I get "Array" instead of the size ?

id10t

Do a google for magpie rss reader. Worked for me.

eporue

Thanks, but I am trying to WRITE a feed, and I already looked for hours in Goggle and Yahoo, no PHP writer of RSS 1.0 with enclosures or RSS 2.0 that I can use.

Weedpacket

You mean the [man]filesize[/man]? Note that unless you're using PHP5 you'll need to get the file from the URL yourself to find out how big it is. So a reasonable workaround would be strlen(file_get_contents(http url)).