Atom and RSS
A feed is an easy way to promote a website, or to enhance it with feeds from other sites. The two major formats are RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. You can display a feed on a page of your website with a single PHP function.
RSS feeds allow to promote your website over the Web. Thanks to the tools provided here you can build easily a feed but you have to know first how to use it and what to do with it.
If you want to create an RSS feed, you wonder what is the best format to use among RSS 2.0, 1.0 or Atom.
Besides the promotion of the articles of a website, RSS feed has numerous use. 15 examples are provided and you can invent your own use.
Tools
Build an RSS feed from the pages of your website or blog. Allows to select the pages and update an existing file.
A PHP class with methods of build an RSS 2.0 feed.
A PHP function to display an RSS feed. Multiple channels handled. Display an RSS 2.0 or 1.0 feed. Demos and download.
Display an Atom feed. Demos and download.
A Single PHP function for displaying any feed in any format: Atom 1.0, RSS-RDF 1.0, RSS 2.0 and older versions: 0.91, 0.92, 0.94. Demos and download.
Resources and specifications of formats
There is not standard by the W3C for the RSS format, but three popular specifications by various groups or organizations. However the W3C works on the semantic Web and the RSS specs are based on the XML and RDF standards from the W3C.
- Comparison of Atom and RSS tags.
- RSS 2.0. Specification 2.01 from Harvard.
- RSS RDF 1.0. The RDF version is released by Purl and maintained by the RSS-DEV group.
- Atom
1.0. Standard by the IETF.
See also
- RSS tutorial. Description of the RSS 2.0 format and step by step tutorial for building a feed.