How to parse an atom feed?

[Antonbomb22]

Does anyone know how to parse an atom feed in php?

Also does anyone know how to syndicate content via an atom feed?

[JeroenvanP]

I'm not an expert, but isn't atom a lot like RSS (if not the same?) if so, read this: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php...arsing-rss-1-0.

And creating a feed should be easy, just get the data out of a database and use mysql_fetch_array() (or mysql_fetch_object()) and loop through it (process it row by row using a while()-statement). Put the field data in some sort of template every time you run though the loop and: you've made yourself a feed... right?

[Antonbomb22]

yes it is but exactly what is the markup for it? such as tags etc.

[vinyl-junkie]

For the syntax of an Atom feed, may I suggest that you check out the documentation at atomenabled.org.

For parsing an Atom feed, here is a pretty good example.

Hope this helps.

[JeroenvanP]

Just look at the RSS (or Atom) feeds of big websites
Sitepoint blogs: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs.rdf
BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...age/rss091.xml

It should be fairly easy to make out what everything does (if I could do it, so will you ).