November 2007

CakePHP with Automagic RSS is sweet but before you run off and install it by following the instructions found on the bakery page. You should be aware of a few issues. One make sure all your PHP Views, Models, and Controllers are space free. I would suggest saving them as UTF-8 no ?BOMS?. One space will kill your rss feed (puts the fun bus up on blocks) and it can be extremely difficult to track down depending where you are at in your application development process. You should also be aware that the FeedCreator.class.php has some minor changes you might want to make. I would make sure all the encoding is done in UTF-8 for consistency. The class currently contains instructions for encoding in ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. I would simply do a search and change them to UTF-8. Then you can enjoy all of the benefits of using the feedcreator class! Feedcreator makes it a breeze in PHP to create RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0, ATOM 0.3 and OPML 1.0 feeds!