If you've been looking for a way to share your content with the world, but arent sure exactly how to provide it in an easy, yet non-server intensive way, you should consider an XML-based newsfeed (RDF/RSS). In this article, the author shows you how.

Here's how you can create an XML news feed in just five minutes using PHP, PEAR and the PEAR XML_Serializer package by Stephan Schmidt. What a news feed consists of in it's barest form is your "site name" , "site url" and a "listing of stories" from your site. To create a news feed what we need to do is create a publically accessible (web) document which can show this information in a format other sites can understand. This is possible by creating this document in the standard RDF Site Summary (RSS) format. A format used by many sites.

The idea is to make an easily-parsable file that anyone can grab and get the content out of. This piece shows you how to put together PHP, some PEAR libraries, and the PEAR PEAR XML_Serializer to make a simple, yet effective XML feed (in this case, an RDF) to share your information with the world.

Thanks to Jim- for the pointer...