Re: [PHP] Can't get my PHP-generated RSS to serve properly

Brian Dunning wrote:
> Hey all -
> 
> Glad some of you found that sample data helpful.   :-)
> 
> I use PHP/MySQL to generate RSS feeds of my podcasts. The feed is
> submitted as *.xml and I use .htaccess to redirect it to my PHP
> document. The start of the document sets the right header and outputs
> the <? & ?> to prevent PHP from trying to process the leading XML
> line as code (this is cleaned up a bit for readability):
> 
> <?php header("content-type: application/rss+xml"); echo '<?'; ?> xml
> version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" <?php echo '?>'; ?> <rss
> xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
> xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
> 
> This has always worked fine on one podcast, but on a new one it's
> not. You can see the results here: 
> http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Finfactvideo.com%2Fpodcast.php
> 
> 
> It's throwing a 500 error, a parsing error, and complaining that
> feeds should not be served with the "text/html" type, even though I'm
> serving the right header. Other PHP pages on this site work fine, and
> there are no special Apache directives on my site that works that are
> missing here. Can anyone suggest what I might be missing?
> 
> - Brian

Don't know if it is beneficial to you, but this is what I use (and 
wrote) for RSS feeds -

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/5942.html

Not tried it for podcasts.