Hey guys I got an .xml file as a feed on my server. To update my feed so that my subscibers get an email do i just add more stuff to the same file, save it and overwrite it on my server?
That would be one way of doing it. The other would be make it dynamic. Pull the data from a database to create the xml feed. What sort of feed is it? Blog?
nah its just my site, which streams episodes of tv shows. so whenever a new episode is out, i'd make a new topic on the feed and people woule get emailed. But if i do the overwrite thing, that would work right? i mean like feedburner will recognize the new article or topic and that would be sent via email wouldn't it?
Depends on the feed coding. Feedburner only works on RSS 2.0 compliant feeds, so you have to make sure it's coded properly for that.
sooo, if i just overwrite an existing rss feed, will the new info show up as "new" and will my subscribers be sent an email? Or would the whole rss feed file, which i overwrite be considered the new thing and would people just be sent an email about the same old stuff aswell?