RSS is definitely a bright way of alluding to the recent news and updates, it is a smart way indeed in today’s era where people do not have much time to go to every link for the latest updates. The touchstone of RSS is its benchmark which has been established through its content of the web feed and also through the unique data source which it possesses. It has an unparalleled way of documentation and also a bright way of defining links and descriptions.

PHP stands for hypertext preprocessor; it basically contains various functions which use XML for it working as PHP is a web based program. For programming the PHP in its initial stages, it requires some locally generated data source, which can be a blog or any thing else. It needs to be formatted into an RSS document first and then into an interactive feed through XML_RSS, it is extremely useful in doing the complex tasks of rendering an XML file more efficiently.

To do so we require a PEAR package, this is an origin library of PHP functions and the more important factor is it keeps on changing with time. Hence, with the changing scenario of the world the potential of the internet has now been understood by the use of RSS and various other applications such as PHP. It is a simple and much more efficient standards of carrying out the internet.

In this article you’ll learn how to syndicate your own custom RSS feeds using PHP and MySQL. We’ll first learn how to create two database tables and then how to retrieve data from them which will be formatted into an RSS feed. Here’s an example of the completed RSS feed and a download link to the code. Let’s start by taking a look at how to create the MySQL database tables.

Creating the MySQL RSS Tables

An RSS feed consists of the main details for the feed, such as the title, description, url, image and so on. Next are the items, probably the most important parts of the feed. i.e., different stories from a newspaper, posts from a blog and so on. Therefore, we will create two database tables, the first is called webref_rss_details, which contains the details for the feed and the second is called webref_rss_items, which contains all of the items. If you would like to get a better idea of the RSS structure you can take a look at The Anatomy of an RSS Feed, which is a previous article I wrote on the basics of the RSS structure.

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