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Using CFFEED to create a RSS Feed Tutorial

ColdFusion Tutorial #27

In this tutorial, I show how to retrieve information from a database and create a valid RSS 2.0 feed from this data.

This tutorial should be easily adaptable for your own needs.

demo.cfm

Lines 1-5 just retrieve some data from the cfbookclub sample database.

Lines 7-13 create some required fields for a valid feed.

Line 15 sets up a loop to loop through the data.

Lines 16-24 populate the xml Structure with the data.

I think it is all self explanatory. However lines 18 & 19 define the type of id, a isPermaLink of yes means the guid.value needs to be a permenant link, otherwise it can be a uuid or similar.

Also, remember to xmlFormat and data going into the feed. I have also found that xmlFormat( does not remove high ascii characters, so if you have any of them in your data, you should remove or replace them manually.