How to add an atom:link element to an rss xml in php?

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by domenico , in category: PHP General , 3 months ago

How to add an atom:link element to an rss xml in php?

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by darrion.kuhn , 3 months ago

@domenico 

To add an atom:link element to an RSS XML feed in PHP, you can use the SimpleXMLElement class to create and append the element to the existing XML data. Here is an example of how you can do this:

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// Load the existing RSS XML feed
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('path/to/your/rss.xml', null, true);

// Create a new atom:link element
$atomLink = $xml->addChild('atom:link');
$atomLink->addAttribute('href', 'https://example.com/rss-feed');
$atomLink->addAttribute('rel', 'self');
$atomLink->addAttribute('type', 'application/rss+xml');

// Save the modified XML back to the file
$xml->asXML('path/to/your/rss.xml');


In this code snippet, we first load the existing RSS XML feed using the SimpleXMLElement class. We then create a new atom:link element and add the required attributes (href, rel, type). Finally, we save the modified XML back to the file.


You can adjust the example code to suit your specific requirements and customize the href, rel, and type attributes as needed for your RSS feed.