Create your own RSS feed
ColdFusion
I decided I wanted to write my own RSS feed for this site. Mainly for the practice, but also because I wanted to have a little "Live Bookmark" icon in FireFox. (This little icon in the bottom right of your browser 
)
The first challenge was creating a well formatted xml document that would be recognizable by some RSS version. I chose to emulate some of the RSS 2.0 feeds that I have seen.
Things to note:
I used the ColdFusion function <CFXML> to generate the xml doc...sample code seen below.
Here is a sample of the output xml:
Let me know what you think.
)The first challenge was creating a well formatted xml document that would be recognizable by some RSS version. I chose to emulate some of the RSS 2.0 feeds that I have seen.
Things to note:
- Include RSS and CHANNEL tags at the beginning/end
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
- Before you begin to populate any items, be sure to include a <title> tag. From what I have read, this is necessary for Firefox's live bookmarking.
- THIS IS IMPORTANT: For the little Live Bookmark icon to show up in Firefox, you need to include a <link> tag within the <head></head> tags of your page.
- <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Aaron J Lynch RSS" href="/dev/rss/news.xml">
I used the ColdFusion function <CFXML> to generate the xml doc...sample code seen below.
<cfxml variable="variableName">
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Feed Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoururl.com/</link>
<description>RSS FEED FOR your url</description>
<cfoutput query="qQueryName">
<item>
<title>#qQueryName.NewsTitle#</title>
<link>http://www.yourrurl.com/ #directlinktonewsitem.cfm#</link>
<pubDate>#dateformat(qarticleside.dtdateadded,"mm-dd-yyyy")#</pubDate>
</item>
</cfoutput>
</channel>
</rss>
</cfxml>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Feed Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoururl.com/</link>
<description>RSS FEED FOR your url</description>
<cfoutput query="qQueryName">
<item>
<title>#qQueryName.NewsTitle#</title>
<link>http://www.yourrurl.com/ #directlinktonewsitem.cfm#</link>
<pubDate>#dateformat(qarticleside.dtdateadded,"mm-dd-yyyy")#</pubDate>
</item>
</cfoutput>
</channel>
</rss>
</cfxml>
Here is a sample of the output xml:
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Aaron J Lynch RSS Feed</title>
<link>http://aaronjlynch.com/</link>
<description>RSS FEED FOR AJL.COM</description>
<item>
<title>Agape Clinic Progress</title>
<link>
http://www.AaronJLynch.com/index.cfm?i=newsitem&e=26
</link>
<pubDate>11-07-2005</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
<channel>
<title>Aaron J Lynch RSS Feed</title>
<link>http://aaronjlynch.com/</link>
<description>RSS FEED FOR AJL.COM</description>
<item>
<title>Agape Clinic Progress</title>
<link>
http://www.AaronJLynch.com/index.cfm?i=newsitem&e=26
</link>
<pubDate>11-07-2005</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Let me know what you think.
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