PHP and RSS

joeiscoolone

How do you hook PHP up to RSS so that when you update something on your site the RSS feed gets updated automaticly?

bogu

joeiscoolone wrote:
How do you hook PHP up to RSS so that when you update something on your site the RSS feed gets updated automaticly?

U can do it, if you have a small RSS that is going to create fast, to created each time u make an update.
If not, u can start a cronjob (on linux or something similar on other OS), that generate from time to time that RSS ...

joeiscoolone

Could you maybe give more detail? Like show me a code example or something to give me an idea of how it works?

bogu

joeiscoolone wrote:
Could you maybe give more detail? Like show me a code example or something to give me an idea of how it works?

How it works what?

rjive

bogu wrote:
U can do it, if you have a small RSS that is going to create fast, to created each time u make an update.
If not, u can start a cronjob (on linux or something similar on other OS), that generate from time to time that RSS ...

How can this be done? I have events for a local car club that we update and I'd love to setup RSS to update the feeds automatically....

bogu

If u are on a linux server, u should look in your control panel for cronjob's ...

rjive

bogu wrote:
If u are on a linux server, u should look in your control panel for cronjob's ...

I'm on a windows server... I'm hosted through Jumpline. Any tips?

bogu

I have never worked woth windows server, maybe u should open another thread, or ask your webmaster ...

rjive

bogu wrote:
I have never worked woth windows server, maybe u should open another thread, or ask your webmaster ...

Do you know of a PHP Script that will allow me to do it? I have PHPBB2 which has a mod that allows XML, but our car club events are on a different section of the site -- not inthe forum.

Thanks for your help! Anyone else have any ideas? :rolleyes:

PABobo

I had this problem and found the solution on here. Can't remember where, here is the file.