Keep up to date with RSS Feeds
Well after a bit I have managed to create a PHP script that allows me to create an rss feed that follows at least the RSS v2.0 Specifications.
Now currently the script is just a regular page that I visit to create the feed. The feed is created by querying my database and pulling the last 10 blog entries. I do a bit of parsing on the data, primarily stripping out tags and html special characters. I also modify the date to follow the RFC 822 specifcation which allows me to keep track of when the blogs were entered into my system.
I also signed up with Feedburner as you can see on the left side it shows how many people are subscribed to my feed. Though since I just started the feed today, I hope to see some people subscribe eventually. I believe it only shows the people who have linked to the Feedburner site for my feed as opposed to the people who’s web browsers automatically discover the feed that is embeded via HTML.
So now I get yet another way of tracking traffic to my site!
You can add my RSS Feed to your favoriate RSS Feed program via: http://feeds.feedburner/TylerIngram
woops, I put this on the wrong post a minute ago…
You can redirect your old feed to feedburner so that it will count all your feed subscribers. Details on how to do that are in the feedburner forums and their blog.
That be neat, though I did not have a previous feed. Good to know that it can be done though.
Thanks!
I’m impressed you built this place on your own. For manipulating rss feeds I use Carp, it dumps everything into a MYSQL dbase where I can manipulate stuff.
At the moment I am in the process of building a public reader.
I am also looking for people to collaberate on stuff.