xml-feed-generator

an RSS/atom feed generator for my personal site 🐱 tested to work with PHP version 8.2.

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how it works

1. match files in a specificied directory.
2. load the DOM of each file.
3. for each child of <entry> in the XML feed, output a string value from one of the following HTML elements/file properties, in order of priority:

original HTML	XML output
1. class="p-name"	<title>
2. the first <title> element
3. the XML feed title
1. datetime attribute of class="dt-updated"	<updated>
2. datetime attribute of the first <time> element
3. file modification date, retrieved from the server
1. datetime attribute of class="dt-published"	<published>
2. datetime attribute of the first <time> element
3. file creation date, retrieved from the server
1. class="p-summary"	<summary>
2. <meta property="description">
1. class="e-content"	<content>
2. <article>
1. /path/to/blog/entry	<id> and <link rel="alternate">

4. save all of the above into a new file named articles.xml (default name, but can be changed).

ways to use

• configure a cron job on your web server to run automatically every now and then.

  • if you manage your site with cPanel, here's how to do that.

• run the script locally on your machine.

  • you can open the file on a local server like five server for vscode or XAMPP.
  • or if PHP is installed on your system, simply open the file from the command line:

  php /path/to/feed_generator.php
  

example output

feel free to check out the resulting file that i've generated.

alternatives

• cjwainwright/FeedGenerator