This article serves to augment the previous article. Instead of writing to a file to make an RSS feed, php code is included that makes the output of RSS without writing to a separate file.
Creating Dynamic RSS Feeds with PHP and MySQL PHP / News and RSS Feeds
In the very least bit of anything and everthing, you need to know the Basic syntax that exists with XML. XML is a very easy language to use/manipulate, seeing as how you can literally "make up" your own tags. Their are some set ones though that are highly useful for making RSS feeds.
Screen Scraping Your Way Into RSS PHP / News and RSS Feeds
RSS is one the hottest technologies at the moment, and even big web publishers (such as the New York Times) are getting into RSS as well. However, there are still a lot of websites that do not have RSS feeds. If you still want to be able to check those websites in your favourite aggregator, you need to create your own RSS feed for those websites. This can be done automatically with PHP, using a method called screen scrapping.
Displaying RSS Feeds on your Website Using PHP PHP / News and RSS Feeds
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS if a technology for distributing data from one site to another using XML. You can easily decode this XML stream and display the information contained in it on your web site.
Building Content By Parsing RSS Feeds With PHP PHP / News and RSS Feeds
If you run a content driven web site, even a blog, one problem you might find is getting content. A great free source of content is RSS Feeds. Instead of manually adding each item in the feed into the database, you'll set up a script to parse the feed and automatically add each item into the database.
Dynamic RSS Feeds PHP / News and RSS Feeds
Ever wondered how you create an RSS feed dynamically? It's actually pretty simple. With some use of PHP's header() function, it's not a problem at all.
RSS Display Boxes PHP / News and RSS Feeds
Using Ajax, this script makes it easy to display RSS feeds from other sites inside DIV containers. Each RSS box can be independently tailored, from the RSS feed to fetch, how many items to show (and whether to paginate them), to what portions of each entry (just the "title", or "title" plus "description" etc) to display.
PHP/MySQL RSS Feed PHP / News and RSS Feeds
Setup your own RSS feed that pulls data from your PHP/MySQL-driven web site. Use PHP to create the XML/RSS document RSS Readers require to inform visitors of your web site database's content updates.
PHP/MySQL RSS Feed PHP / News and RSS Feeds
Setup your own RSS feed that pulls data from your PHP/MySQL-driven web site. Use PHP to create the XML/RSS document RSS Readers require to inform visitors of your web site database's content updates. The tutorial is available in PDF format.
Generating Images on the Fly With PHP PHP / Dynamic Images
One of the most popular features of PHP is real-time image generation. That is, we can create a new image canvas, "paint" it, and either save it to a file, or send it directly to the browser. This article will show you how to create an image in real-time with PHP.
Dynamic Image Generation with PHP PHP / Dynamic Images
PHP lets you do a lot more than simply generating HTML content, it is also a great tool to dynamically generate images on-the-fly. For example, you can create buttons with text from a database,create grapical displays of statistics from log files,enhance business data with graphs and diagrams.This tutorial shows you how to use the GD library to dynamically create images on your site. The GD library is an external module which is accessed by a native PHP module.
Generating Advanced Web Page Statistics using PHP PHP / Site Analysis
This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in gathering and analyzing Website statistics in a presentable format using mySQL and PHP.You will need a moderate understanding of PHP and a limited knowledge of mySQL, including how to create a mySQL table using the mySQL client.