Creating an RSS feed?

[mike]

I'm puzzled by this.. I'd like to take entries from a mysql table or the resulting php page and output them into an rss feed.

I don't know much of anything about this, so I'm hoping some might point me in the direction of a few good resources or offer up a bit of explanation.

[jason]

RSS is an XML format. There are several different variations of the RSS spec, versions 0.91 and 1.0 seem to be the most common these days. You can find some good introductory info on RSS at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html.

If you can write an HTML page by hand you can create an RSS feed just as easily. RSS (or any flavor of XML for that matter) looks a lot like HTML (it is a tag based markup language just like HTML is). If you can write a PHP script to, lets say, format MySQL data into an HTML table then you should have no problem formatting it to RSS, either.

--Jason