Establishing an RSS feed

[ArEs]

that would be cool, then we would have a more current, easily updated form of feed (lol pun)

[swfwebmaster]

The idea is to reduce the number of emails being distributed by =SWF= and still keep folks informed.

Both a feed reader and a location on the website would be great.

[Milkrunner]

Alright, so I've done a ton of work on this. The feed itself is incredibly easy, and in fact you could manually create individual RSS links that would validate if you wanted. Attaching it to forum updates would be.. well, you don't want every post in the RSS, so here are my thoughts:

What I'm doing right now is attaching the RSS feed to website content (which I've found myself also having to create, because there's no article-based news section on the website). Creating the "news" ...widgit? Christ, I hope it's not just a "widgit".. was the biggest part, because of all of the intricacies involved in content creation/editing/deletion, while still maintaining history of news and a good design. Anyway, I'm tired so this is confusing. Here's the list of required stuff for RSS with status.

Code to...
-Log In to access admin functions (I just need to port my code in)
-Create table for content to be stored in (done)
-Create content (done)
-Edit/Delete content (done)
-Show specific news posts (for RSS to link directly to) (done)
-Create tables for RSS to be stores in (done)
-Write validated RSS feed to .xml file (done)
-Connect content (up to 15 articles) to RSS feed (done)
-Allow admin to add custom RSS links (e.g. specific forum post) to feed (done)
-Edit/Delete custom RSS links (done)
-Read custom RSS links only on website (wouldn't make sense to show news articles.. they're right there anyway) (in progress)

Also FYI, Firefox comes with an RSS reader.. and I bet Chrome does as well, both much superior browsers to IE

If you want to test this stuff out in its ugly format: milkrunning.50gigs.net/

Eventually I'll add it to my sample website just to show how it would look in a non-ugly environment, but the functionality is what's important here. Let me know if you find any strange bugs (that don't have to do with appearance).

EDIT: I didn't have a description field in the news post database, so I had to go add one and recreate my sample content. I got horribly lost trying to find some of the references. Remember, code-monkeys, always comment in your code!

EDIT: Custom RSS link validation is fixed now.

[swfwebmaster]

I'm impressed. Looks complicated.

Thanks for the hard work. Looks like it will be a great function that cn be used for years to come.