How do you generate an RSS feed?

Question

I\'ve never done it myself, and I\'ve never subscribed to a feed, but it seems that I\'m going to have to create one, so I\'m wondering. The only way that seems apparent to me i

Answer 1

I've got good results from Magpie RSS. Set up the included cacheing and all you need to do is write the query to retrieve your data and send the result to Magpie RSS, which then handles the update frequency.

I wouldn't be writing an RSS file, unless your server is under particularly heavy load - one query (or a series of queries that adds to an array) for updated stuff is all you need. Write the query/ies to be sorted by date and then limited by X and you won't need to worry about 'removing old stuff' either.