11 Comments to “Creating RSS & Atom Feeds with Zend_Feed”

1. Master B.
   September 7, 2010 at 1:06 am | Permalink

   Well done.
   Great Summary!

   Thanks

2. Joseph Izang
   September 7, 2010 at 8:32 am | Permalink

   Hi Jon,

   I will say briefly that zendcasts is a service to humanity, truly outstanding. I was scared of zend framework until I found your site. Now I think I am ready to learn proper. Only thing I wanted to ask is I am in africa, Nigeria to be precise and I had 2 questions, our internet is not so good here so watching online is almost not possible so I used to use firefox addons to download the flash videos but looks like that don’t work anymore, is there anything you can do to help? Also you had a link on your site for folk that want to donate but can’t seem to find it. Not that I have a lot of cash but I just felt it would be good to donate and help no matter how small my help might be.

   Thanks for your time.

   joe

3. jon
   September 7, 2010 at 9:09 am | Permalink

   wow! Thanks Joseph. Actually, you can download the .mov files directly via the RSS feed. Mahbub even went through the trouble of collecting all the video urls on his blog:
   http://www.mahbubblog.com/php/zend-casts-video-download-links/

   Donations are still very welcomed I simply put the donate button at the bottom of the about page. Maybe I should move it to the footer…

4. Jonathan
   September 8, 2010 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

   Great post. Love the new site

5. Marcelo
   September 10, 2010 at 10:05 am | Permalink

   Well done Man!!!! I’m from Brazil, and I always see your videocasts!!!

   Congratulations!!!!

6. Benjamin "balupton" Lupton
   September 17, 2010 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

   Great! But…

   I’ve added this into my CMS as you can see here http://www.balupton.com

   Unfortunately… the atom feed is corrupted with ZF v1.10.8… the html of the entries just does not display and it looks like it has been stripped of all tags. Whereas the RSS feed displays beautifully. I’ve checked that this is not a feedburner issue as it happens with the zend framework code from this tutorial when using html posts… So I’m not sure…

7. Olek
   September 25, 2010 at 1:44 am | Permalink

   I hope I’m not too picky, but…

   Shouldn’t the response content-type be not text/html, but application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml?

   I understand that this is an example and many things are irrelevant, but generally I think it would be valuable if you could promote all the Zend’s best practices, like MVC separation of concerns, TDD instead of var_dump() or die(), naming conventions for private methods, formatting according to coding standards, etc.

   Also, maybe it would make more sense to use a ContextSwitch instead of manually disabling HTML body rendering in init()? In any case, $this->_helper->layout() can be used instead of the Singleton accessor.

   BTW, you should have a look at get_object_vars() .

   In short – less “plumbing” and more quality would definitely help set higher standards for other Zend Framework programmers.

8. jon
   September 25, 2010 at 3:23 am | Permalink

   Hey Olek,

   you’re definitely not being too picky! good call on the get_object_vars(), this would’ve helped with the dynamic properties. In terms of the ContextSwitch, again I think you make a great point there. I really appreciate the feedback and I’ll try and make more use of the zend_test infrastructure in future videos.

9. C4rLoS
   October 19, 2010 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

   Hi,
   I followed the tutorial, but on my server, if I go on the link: miodominio.it/feed/rss, I see a blank page without any error.
   What’s wrong?
   thanks

10. stephanie
    December 4, 2011 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

    hello
    great post, congratulations, but,
    I have a problem with the code I have these errors and do not know what to do if you can help me please thanks
    message is:
    An error occurred

    Application error

    Exception information:

    Message: Method: setDataModified does not exist and could not be located on a registered Extension

    Stack trace:

    #0 [internal function]: Zend_Feed_Writer_Feed_FeedAbstract->__call(‘setDataModified’, Array)
    #1 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/application/controllers/FeedController.php(28): Zend_Feed_Writer_Feed->setDataModified(1323025013)
    #2 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/application/controllers/FeedController.php(65): FeedController->getFeed()
    #3 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Action.php(513): FeedController->rssAction()
    #4 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch(‘rssAction’)
    #5 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
    #6 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
    #7 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
    #8 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/public/index.php(26): Zend_Application->run()
    #9 {main}
    Request Parameters:

    array (
    ‘controller’ => ‘feed’,
    ‘action’ => ‘rss’,
    ‘module’ => ‘default’,
    )

11. stephanie
    December 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    hello
    great post, congratulations, but,
    I have a problem with the code I have these errors and do not know what to do if you can help me please thanks
    message is:
    An error occurred

    Application error

    Exception information:

    Message: Method: setDataModified does not exist and could not be located on a registered Extension

    Stack trace:

    #0 [internal function]: Zend_Feed_Writer_Feed_FeedAbstract->__call(‘setDataModified’, Array)
    #1 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/application/controllers/FeedController.php(28): Zend_Feed_Writer_Feed->setDataModified(1323025013)
    #2 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/application/controllers/FeedController.php(65): FeedController->getFeed()
    #3 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Action.php(513): FeedController->rssAction()
    #4 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch(‘rssAction’)
    #5 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
    #6 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
    #7 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/Zend/Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
    #8 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/site/public/index.php(26): Zend_Application->run()
    #9 {main}
    Request Parameters:

    array (
    ‘controller’ => ‘feed’,
    ‘action’ => ‘rss’,
    ‘module’ => ‘default’,
    )