dynamically creating xml Files

[ptowndesign]

This is more of an XML/PHP question. I've got a site where thousands of users add comments. I want them each to have an XML feed of their own comments. However I would like to do this dynamically so that I don't have thousands of xml files sitting on my server.

I have a shared hosting account so I don't have access to root, conf, php.ini etc... What I would like to do is be able to set up feeds like this: http://domain.com/rss/USERNAME. Where any folder inside the rrs directory acts as the username that determines which feed to pull.

I just can't figure out how to use the name of the folders inside the rss directory as the variable. Any thoughts?

Or are there any other way to generate XML feeds dynamically?

Thanks,

Dave Martin

[frost110]

You can do it with .htaccess pretty easily but to use the directory as a username do something like:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Split it at the "/" and get the username from it.

--FrosT

[visualAd]

With regards to the first, you do need to use URL rewriting to get the username in the URL to be tanslated to something like fee.php?user=username. If your host has enabled the rewrite engtine for .htaccess files then this would be possible.

Regarding your XML, how are you storing the information originally, in a database? If so, you can use DOM to create XML on the fly and send it to the user.

[ptowndesign]

I'm an idiot. Haven’t used .htaccess in so long that I forgot about it. Thanks Frost.

[frost110]

NP.

Also check out this thread:

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10316987

--FrosT