php code isnt working in .xml file

bull

i got file news.xml

it will be used for feeds.

content of news.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>

<title>page news</title>
<link>http://link.com</link>
<description>page news</description>

<item>
<title>some title</title>
<description>
<?php echo 'text goes here'; ?>
</description>
<link>http://link.com/?1</link>
</item>

<item>
<title>some title2222</title>
<description>
<?php echo 'text goes here2222'; ?>
</description>
<link>http://link.com/?2222</link>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

problem is that php code in this xml file isnt working. that is just a sample php line in code. later i want to get titles and texts from database with sql query, so the feed would work. but there is this problem...

how to solve this? any ideas?

thanks!

rincewind456

Unless you change the settings for file handling by the server, then your php code will only be parsed when the file extension is .php and sometimes .php3

shmusie

I just did this for a page of mine - if you can't change file settings, you can use say rss.php, and output the XML by echo ing the XML, but you may need a content type declaration in the PHP file. It reads fine in news readers etc. Alternatively, get PHP to write the file to your server, but for that you need file write privilieges and that I don't have on my server.
Susie.

shmusie

See fragment of my case <?php header('Content-type: application/xml'); ?> <<?php echo "?"?>xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" <?php echo "?"?>> <<?php echo "?"?>xml-stylesheet title= "XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl"
href= "http://yoururl/rss.xsl"<?php echo "?"?>> <rss version="2.0">
Watch out for encoding - you can always use feedvalidator.org to verify.
Your existing RSS probably won't -- you'll see the reasons why on the validator output like guid etc.