Can any one teach me how to make custom recent blog rss file

I need someone to teach me how to make a custom rss file to show any link I want at my Recent Blog.

I know how to link to my blog feed. What I want here is a different thing.

Let's say I have a file on my server called dpfeed.xml and this is an example of it:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Example</title>
    <link>http://forums.digitalpoint.com/</link>
    <description>Example</description>
    <language>en-us</language>

    <item>
      <title>Example</title>
      <link>http://forums.digitalpoint.com/</link>
      <description>Example</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mac 2009 12:02:12 GMT</pubDate>
    </item>
	
  </channel>
</rss>

PHP:

There problem is: it doesn't work, although it is a valid RSS (validated by w3).

I updated my DP blog feed url to mysite.com/dpfeed.xml but my profile doesn't have a recent blog link at all.

Thank you.

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What blogging software are you using? I use WordPress, personally, but I also create custom RSS feeds of content from my primary site through a set of Perl scripts I wrote for that purpose.

 

As I said, I know how to link to my blog feed. What I want here is a different thing.

What I want here is a custom one that is only for use at DP. I don't want to post a blog post at my blog to have the link shown at my recent blog.

I want to be able to directly edit the script I provided above to work (to display a link in "my recent blog")

Can give me the sample of the RSS feeds?

Thank you. +rep for fast response

 

Really, what you need to do is pick your favorite scripting langauge and write a script that pulls content from your database (I presume the desired blog posts are housed in a db) and writes it out in RSS format. The file format itself is very simple; it's just XML. If you want your script to run at specified times throughout the day, you can set up a cron job through your shell or control panel to run it whenever you like (I run my RSS generator scripts via cron twice a day).

You can find a lot of information on RSS, including examples of how files are structured, in the Wikipedia RSS entry. If you're not very familiar with any particular programming language, I can send you an example script in Perl to serve as a starting point.

 

Lol. I think you don't get me.

I don't want to pull anything from db. I know I can do that using WordPress(it auto generate it for me) but I just don't want that.

I want the rss codes I posted above to work in my DP Recent Blog. I don't know what is wrong with it. It doesn't work currently.

I tried a lot of times but failed.

Again, thanks for your help!!

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