RSS steams: explanations

On this page, I will explain how you can offer RSS streams on your Internet site (blog, articles, etc). In the example, the data is stored on a table in a mysql database and the streams are created with a small php script. With each update, this script will be executed so that the stream is updated.

Of course, to understand this script, you will need some knowledge of php. If you don’t know anything, you can move directly to the next page. Here we will use the “minimum” required to create a good RSS stream. Other, more skilled people, who wish to go into this in more depth, can look at the official document here.

You then need to execute this script every time information is added to the database. For example, if you use an administration interface to publish your articles, the execution of this script will be done the moment you press the “Publish” button on the article.

And there you have it. Now visitors will be able to use this RSS stream to keep up to date with changes to your web site.