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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:58:32+00:00

I am currently developing a dynamic RSS feed that will automatically pull articles from

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I am currently developing a dynamic RSS feed that will automatically pull articles from a MySQL database. The code is below

<?php 

//Include the post retreival script
require_once '../phpScripts/rss_db_setup.php';

//Set the content type
header('Content-type: text/xml');

//Set up the RSS feed information
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'.
 '<rss version="2.0">'.

 '<channel>'.
 '<title>Company Name</title>'.
 '<link>http://www.company.ca</link>'.
 '<description></description>'.
 '<category></category>';

//Retreive posts from the database
$rssData = new rssData();
echo $rssData->generateFeed($dbcon);

//Close the feed
echo '</channel></rss>';

?>

I am wondering whether this file should be saved as a .xml or a .php? I have added the following line to my .htaccess file, but do not really understand exactly how it works

AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml

Is this a correct way to do this? Or should I use another htaccess function such as modRewrite, or use a CRON job to generate a new .xml every day or so?

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  1. Editorial Team

    With the AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml line, Apache will be able to serve XML files containing some PHP code inside. So you can save this file as a .xml, the PHP code will be interpreted

    Perhaps you should add a cache manager in order to avoid generating the same feed when there is no new article?

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