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Create RSS feeds easily in PHP!

This library allows you to create an XML file representing an RSS feed.

Requirement

• PHP 7.4+

Installation

With Composer, run this command:

composer require shevabam/rss-feed-maker

Usage

First, include the library in your code using the Composer autoloader and then create a Feed object.

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$feed = new \RssFeedMaker\Feed;

Next, configure the feed:

$feed
    ->setTitle('RSS Feed Title')
    ->setDescription('Recent articles on my website')
    ->setLink('https://website.com')
    ->setCopyright('MyWebsite.com')
    ->setLanguage('en')
    ->setImage([
        'title' => 'Image title', 
        'url' => 'https://website.com/Image.jpg', 
        'link' => 'https://website.com', 
    ])
;

Here are the parameters that can be modified for the feed:

The language code is described here: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-language-codes

Default encoding is: utf-8. You can change it with:

$feed->setEncoding('iso-8859-1');

Then, create the items and inject them into the feed:

$posts = [
    [
        'title' => 'Post title #1',
        'link' => 'https://website.com/1-post-title',
        'published_at' => '2023-03-18 12:00:00',
        'description' => 'Blog post about something very important',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Post title #2',
        'link' => 'https://website.com/2-post-title',
        'published_at' => '2023-03-11 16:30:00',
        'description' => 'Blog post about something very important',
    ],
];

foreach ($posts as $post)
{
    $item = new \RssFeedMaker\Item;

    $item
        ->setTitle($post['title'])
        ->setLink($post['link'])
        ->setDescription($post['description'])
        ->setPubDate($post['published_at'])
    ;
    
    $feed->addItem($item);
}

Parameters for item:

For more information about the RSS schema, please see the specifications.

Finally, generate the XML with:

echo $feed->generate();

You can save the RSS feed to a file:

$feed->save('path/to/the/feed.xml');

Full example

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$feed = new \RssFeedMaker\Feed;

$feed
    ->setTitle('RSS Feed Title')
    ->setDescription('Recent articles on your website')
    ->setLink('https://website.com')
    ->setCopyright('MyWebsite.com')
    ->setImage([
        'title' => 'Image title', 
        'url' => 'https://website.com/Image.jpg', 
        'link' => 'https://website.com', 
    ])
;

$posts = [
    [
        'title' => 'Post title #1',
        'link' => 'https://website.com/1-post-title',
        'published_at' => '2023-03-14 12:00:00',
        'author' => 'John Doe',
        'description' => 'Blog post about something very important',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Post title #2',
        'link' => 'https://website.com/2-post-title',
        'published_at' => '2023-03-08 16:30:00',
        'author' => 'Jane Doe',
        'description' => 'Blog post number two',
    ],
    [
        'title' => 'Post title #3',
        'link' => 'https://website.com/3-post-title',
        'published_at' => '2023-03-01 08:45:00',
        'enclosure' => [
            'url' => 'https://website.com/podcasts/example.mp3',
            'length' => 12345,
            'type' => 'audio/mpeg',
        ],
    ],
];

foreach ($posts as $post)
{
    $item = new \RssFeedMaker\Item;

    $item->setTitle($post['title']);
    $item->setLink($post['link']);
    $item->setDescription(isset($post['description']) ? $post['description'] : '');
    $item->setPubDate(isset($post['published_at']) ? $post['published_at'] : '');
    $item->setAuthor(isset($post['author']) ? $post['author'] : '');
    $item->setCategory(isset($post['category']) ? $post['category'] : '');
    $item->setGuid(isset($post['guid']) ? $post['guid'] : '');
    $item->setSource(isset($post['source']) ? $post['source'] : []);
    $item->setEnclosure(isset($post['enclosure']) ? $post['enclosure'] : []);
    
    $feed->addItem($item);
}

$feed->save('public/feed.xml');

Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel>
    <title>RSS Feed Title</title>
    <link>https://website.com</link>
    <description>Recent articles on your website</description>
    <language>en</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:45:47 +0200</lastBuildDate>
    <copyright>MyWebsite.com</copyright>
    <image>
      <title>Image title</title>
      <url>https://website.com/Image.jpg</url>
      <link>https://website.com</link>
    </image>
    <item>
      <title>
        <![CDATA[Post title #1]]>
      </title>
      <link>https://website.com/1-post-title</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Blog post about something very important]]>
      </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">https://website.com/1-post-title</guid>
      <author>John Doe</author>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>
        <![CDATA[Post title #2]]>
      </title>
      <link>https://website.com/2-post-title</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Blog post number two]]>
      </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">https://website.com/2-post-title</guid>
      <author>Jane Doe</author>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>
        <![CDATA[Post title #3]]>
      </title>
      <link>https://website.com/3-post-title</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2023 08:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">https://website.com/3-post-title</guid>
      <enclosure length="12345" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://website.com/podcasts/example.mp3"/>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>