Re: Package thoughts: XML_RSS_Publisher

David Ashwood wrote:

Howdy, I'm in the middle of a project for a client who desires to publish RSS feeds. I was wondering if people thought it would be a useful addition to PEAR? The package would publish dynamic feeds (from a data source) and generate/manage static feeds - and would be loosely coupled with PEAR::Cache. Optionally I'd also like access to feeds to be support authentication and maybe authorisation - should it be possible to devise a suitable framework. Any thoughts?

I have been using XML_Serializer for this purpose with alot of success. It just takes a few config options ... The following code is taken from a recent workshop on PEAR:

    public static function toRSS ( $list )
    {
        $data = array(
            'channel' => array(
                'title' => 'My Ebay items',
                'link' => 'http://www.ebay.de'
            )
        );
        foreach ($list as $item) {
            $data['channel'][] = $item->getData();
        }
        $serializer_options = array (
            'addDecl' => TRUE,
            'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1',
            'rootName' => 'rss',
            'rootAttributes' => array(
                'version' => '2.0'),
            'defaultTagName' => 'item'
        );
        $serializer = new XML_Serializer($serializer_options);
        $serializer->serialize($data);
        return $serializer->getSerializedData();
    }

regards, Lukas