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[Directory](/) 2. / 3. openpsa/universalfeedcreator ActiveLibrary openpsa/universalfeedcreator ============================ RSS and Atom feed generator by Kai Blankenhorn v1.9.0(2y ago)3593.7k↑180.8%11[1 PRs](https://github.com/flack/UniversalFeedCreator/pulls)1LGPL-2.1-or-laterPHPPHP >=5.2 Since May 25Pushed 2y ago3 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/flack/UniversalFeedCreator)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/openpsa/universalfeedcreator)[ RSS](/packages/openpsa-universalfeedcreator/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (1)Versions (13)Used By (1) UniversalFeedCreator ==================== [](#universalfeedcreator) RSS and Atom feed generator by Kai Blankenhorn, slightly cleaned up and packaged for Composer. Supported formats: RSS0.91, RSS1.0, RSS2.0, PIE0.1 (deprecated), MBOX, OPML, ATOM, ATOM0.3, HTML, JS, PHP General Usage ------------- [](#general-usage) ``` require 'vendor/autoload.php'; $rss = new UniversalFeedCreator(); $rss->useCached(); // use cached version if age < 1 hour $rss->title = "PHP news"; $rss->description = "daily news from the PHP scripting world"; //optional $rss->descriptionTruncSize = 500; $rss->descriptionHtmlSyndicated = true; $rss->link = "http://www.dailyphp.net/news"; $rss->syndicationURL = "http://www.dailyphp.net/" . $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]; $image = new FeedImage(); $image->title = "dailyphp.net logo"; $image->url = "http://www.dailyphp.net/images/logo.gif"; $image->link = "http://www.dailyphp.net"; $image->description = "Feed provided by dailyphp.net. Click to visit."; //optional $image->descriptionTruncSize = 500; $image->descriptionHtmlSyndicated = true; $rss->image = $image; // get your news items from somewhere, e.g. your database: mysql_select_db($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass); $res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY newsdate DESC"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_object($res)) { $item = new FeedItem(); $item->title = $data->title; $item->link = $data->url; $item->description = $data->short; //optional $item->descriptionTruncSize = 500; $item->descriptionHtmlSyndicated = true; $item->date = $data->newsdate; $item->source = "http://www.dailyphp.net"; $item->author = "John Doe"; $rss->addItem($item); } echo $rss->saveFeed("RSS1.0", "news/feed.xml"); ``` Changelog: ---------- [](#changelog) ``` v1.8 12-03-13 packaged for Composer & cleaned up slightly v1.7.7(BH) 28-03-06 added GPX Feed (Barry Hunter) v1.7.6(BH) 20-02-06 added GeoRSS Feed (Barry Hunter) v1.7.5(BH) 16-11-05 added BASE Feed (Barry Hunter) v1.7.4(BH) 05-07-05 added KML Feed (Barry Hunter) v1.7.3(BH) 05-07-05 added PHP Feed (Barry Hunter) v1.7.2 10-11-04 license changed to LGPL v1.7.1 fixed a syntax bug fixed left over debug code v1.7 07-18-04 added HTML and JavaScript feeds (configurable via CSS) (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) added HTML descriptions for all feed formats (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) added a switch to select an external stylesheet (thanks to Pascal Van Hecke) changed default content-type to application/xml added character encoding setting fixed numerous smaller bugs (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) improved changing ATOM versions handling (thanks to August Trometer) improved the UniversalFeedCreator's useCached method (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) added charset output in HTTP headers (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) added Slashdot namespace to RSS 1.0 (thanks to Sören Fuhrmann of golem.de) v1.6 05-10-04 added stylesheet to RSS 1.0 feeds fixed generator comment (thanks Kevin L. Papendick and Tanguy Pruvot) fixed RFC822 date bug (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) added TimeZone customization for RFC8601 (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) fixed Content-type could be empty (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) fixed author/creator in RSS1.0 (thanks Tanguy Pruvot) v1.6 beta 02-28-04 added Atom 0.3 support (not all features, though) improved OPML 1.0 support (hopefully - added more elements) added support for arbitrary additional elements (use with caution) code beautification :-) considered beta due to some internal changes v1.5.1 01-27-04 fixed some RSS 1.0 glitches (thanks to Stéphane Vanpoperynghe) fixed some inconsistencies between documentation and code (thanks to Timothy Martin) v1.5 01-06-04 added support for OPML 1.0 added more documentation v1.4 11-11-03 optional feed saving and caching improved documentation minor improvements v1.3 10-02-03 renamed to FeedCreator, as it not only creates RSS anymore added support for mbox tentative support for echo/necho/atom/pie/??? v1.2 07-20-03 intelligent auto-truncating of RSS 0.91 attributes don't create some attributes when they're not set documentation improved fixed a real and a possible bug with date conversions code cleanup v1.1 06-29-03 added images to feeds now includes most RSS 0.91 attributes added RSS 2.0 feeds v1.0 06-24-03 initial release ``` Credits ------- [](#credits) ``` originally (c) Kai Blankenhorn www.bitfolge.de kaib@bitfolge.de v1.3 work by Scott Reynen (scott@randomchaos.com) and Kai Blankenhorn v1.5 OPML support by Dirk Clemens ``` ### Health Score 40 — FairBetter than 88% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity42 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community20 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity65 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 66.2% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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