Topic: Creating RSS Feed with PHP?

<?php



include("../openNclose.php");
/*------------contents of openNclose------------------------
<?php
$open="<?xml version='1.0'?>
<rss version='0.91'>
  <channel>";
$close=" 
     </item>
  </channel>
</rss> ";
?>
-----------------------------------------------------------*/

if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
    
    if ($_POST['title2']==""){
        echo"<script>alert('Pleases supply a Title');
        history.back();</script>";
        exit;
    }
    
    
   
    
    
    
    if ($_POST['blurb2']==""){
        echo"<script>alert('Pleases supply text for your news post');
        history.back();</script>";
        exit;
    } 
	$title="StateOfAlaska";
	$link="http://state.ak.us";
	$blurb=$_POST['blurb'];
	$title2=$_POST['title2'];
	$link2=$_POST['link2'];
	$blurb2=$_POST['blurb2'];
	
	$file="../rss/".$title.".rss";       //----------------------------------THIS WILL CHANGE FOR PRODUCTION-------------------------------------
        
	$openFile=fopen($file,'w');
	$replace="$open";
	
	$replace.="	<title>$title</title>
		<link>$link</link>
		<description>$blurb</description>
		<item>
		   <title>$title2</title>
		   <link>$link2</link>
		   <description>$blurb2</description>
		
	";
	$replace.="$close";
	
	
	if(fputs($openFile,$replace)){
		echo"<script>alert('Your Update has been processed.')</script>";
		fclose($openFile);
	} 
	else{
		echo"My bad..";
	}
    
	echo "<br /><br /><font size ='6' weight='900'>Webmasters:</font> ";
    echo "<a href='http://intra1.admin.state.ak.us/newIntra/rss/".$_POST['title'].".rss'>";
    echo  "right-click/save as</a> to download a copy of the xml/rss file if you would like to host a copy ";
    echo "on your server also.<br /><br />";
    	
    	
    $file1="../rss/".$title.".rss";        //----------------------------------THIS WILL CHANGE FOR PRODUCTION-------------------------------------
	
	$file2="../rss/main.rss";       //----------------------------------THIS WILL CHANGE FOR PRODUCTION-------------------------------------

         $myFile=file($file1);
         
	
	  
	
	
		
	$content;     
	
	for ( $i = 5; $i < count($myFile)-2; $i++ )
	{
		 $content.= $myFile[$i];
	}
	
	$newGet=file($file2);
	
	
	
	
	$final="";    
	
	for ( $i = 0; $i < count($newGet)-2; $i++ )
	{
		$final.=$newGet[$i];    
	}
	
	$final.="$content";
	$final.="</channel>
	</rss>";
	

	$openFile2=fopen($file2,'w')or die("<font color=red><br>no/open</font>");
	if (fputs($openFile2,$final)){
		echo "<font color=red><br></font>";
	}
	else{
		 echo "<font color=red><br>no file created</font>";
	}
	

	//----------------------------------------------Load the DB with who posted and when

	function loadDB(){
	global $REMOTE_USER;
	$mysql_id = mysql_connect('localhost', '******', '********');
		mysql_select_db('news',$mysql_id);

	
	
	$now= date("lFj,Y");
	$query="INSERT into newsposts VALUES('".$REMOTE_USER."','".$_POST['title2']."','".$now."')";
	mysql_query($query)or die(mysql_error());
	
	}
	
    loadDB();	
			
}




//--------------------------------------------------------------

class xItem {
  var $xTitle;
  var $xLink;
  var $xDescription;
}

// general vars
$sTitle = "";
$sLink = "";
$sDescription = "";
$arItems = array();
$itemCount = 0;

// ********* Start User-Defined Vars ************
// rss url goes here

$uFile="../my.rss";

// descriptions (true or false) goes here
$bDesc = true;
// font goes here
$uFont = "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif";
$uFontSize = "2";
// ********* End User-Defined Vars **************

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
  global $curTag;

  $curTag .= "^$name";

}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
  global $curTag;

  $caret_pos = strrpos($curTag,'^');

  $curTag = substr($curTag,0,$caret_pos);

}

function characterData($parser, $data) { global $curTag; // get the Channel information first
  global $sTitle, $sLink, $sDescription;  
  $titleKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^TITLE";
  $linkKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^LINK";
  $descKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^DESCRIPTION";
  if ($curTag == $titleKey) {
    $sTitle = $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $linkKey) {
    $sLink = $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $descKey) {
    $sDescription = $data;
  }

  // now get the items 
  global $arItems, $itemCount;
  $itemTitleKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^TITLE";
  $itemLinkKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^LINK";
  $itemDescKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^DESCRIPTION";

  if ($curTag == $itemTitleKey) {
    // make new xItem    
    $arItems[$itemCount] = new xItem();     

    // set new item object's properties    
    $arItems[$itemCount]->xTitle = $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $itemLinkKey) {
    $arItems[$itemCount]->xLink = $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $itemDescKey) {
    $arItems[$itemCount]->xDescription = $data;
    // increment item counter
    $itemCount++;
  }
}

// main loop
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($uFile,"r"))) {
  die ("could not open RSS for input");
}
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
    die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
  }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);




?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"

        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
	<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 7.0" />
<script language="Javascript">
<!--



//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Post a news article to be displayed on the Intranet.</h2>
<hr />
<?php
for ($i=0;$i<count($arItems);$i++) {
  $txItem = $arItems[$i];
?>
<font face = "<?php echo($uFont); ?>" size = "<?php echo($uFontSize); ?>"><a href = "<?php echo($txItem->xLink); ?>"><?php echo($txItem->xTitle); ?></a></font>
<br>
<?php
if ($bDesc) {
?>
<font face = "<?php echo($uFont); ?>" size = "<?php echo($uFontSize); ?>"><?php echo ($txItem->xDescription); ?>
<br>
<?php
}
echo ("<br>");
}
?>
<hr /><br />
<form action="index.php" method="post"onsubmit="">
<!--
<input type="text"name="title" maxlength="100">your dept. 
<font color="red"><small>* this will not display on the intranet news page</small></font><br />

<input type="text"name="link" maxlength="100">URL for your dept's home page. 
<font color="red"><small>* this will not display on the intranet news page</small></font><br /><br />
-->
<input type="hidden" name="blurb" value="homepage" >

<input type="text"name="title2" maxlength="100">title of news article.<br />

<input type="text"name="link2" maxlength="100">news article URL.
<font color="red"><small>* if there is no webpage for this news item, leave this field blank.</small></font><br />
<br />
intro. text for article goes in the box below<br />

<textarea name="blurb2" rows="10" cols="40">

</textarea><br /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="post news ">
</form>

</body>
</html>